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I was hoping God smote the Philistines for trying to use distributed, global, mutable state. :(

This article is a strawman arguing against a purist extreme and how it cannot work while denying real oligopolies already exist: Amazon, Walmart, Google, Apple, Microsoft, Samsung, and Alibaba. AI/ML isn't a panacea, but it will gradually be applied to automate, commodify, and replace human labor pervasively seemingly with minimal limitations. The future will be a further expansion of power law-like distribution of wealth to a few trillionaires while the middle- and lower-classes remain taxed, indebted, and impoverished.