[echelon]

One day a few million dollars in tokens will enable you to mint an entire AWS or iPhone.

That will not be something you can purchase. Only enormous capital holders will have access and be able to play that game.

We're going to be left with scraps. Thin clients, shitty gaming cards (for but a few), which also dovetails nicely with trusted computing and device attestation.

We've already lived through this:

- open web -> platforms

- protocols -> closed products

- firefox -> chrome sans ad block

- urls are cool -> 92% of URL bars sent to a single company to show ads

- the personal computer -> locked down iPhones and increasingly locked down Androids without APKs.

- free to use internet -> national ID laws

- free to use cell phones -> required KYC

It's getting worse and worse every year. Why would you think you'll get to have these models? You're a serf.

They'll take your career and your hobby and leave you with nothing. Enjoy renting and being monitored.

Not a religious person, but I'm shocked at all of the people watching Noah's proverbial ark being built right in front of us, the rain starting to pour, and everyone just laughing. The flood is coming. 90+% of you, maybe more, are going to lose your jobs.

Your careers are about to die all at once and you're standing around laughing it off. Absolutely wild to see.

[fellowmartian]

This feeling of being defeated by and trapped inside the “machine” and seeing the “truth” is exactly what the “machine” would want you to do. The actual red pill is that there’s no “machine”, there’s only people and shared social constructions held together by our compliance and they’re contingent.

[aaimnr]

There's no machine, and there's no ladder. However with sufficient people believing it exists and acting like it does, it becomes real in its own way.

[wolvesechoes]

> there’s only people and shared social constructions held together by our compliance and they’re contingent

But that's what a "machine" is.

[blastro]

thank you

[idorube]

we also lived through

owning digital books => renting/subscribing

owning digital games => renting/subscribing

owning digital music => renting/subscribing

owning the right to repair => renting/subscribing

Vehicle ECU's => TCU's that share data with 3rd parties

I'm sad to say that I tend to agree with echelon.

[pjmlp]

I fully agree with you, and I find bonkers to see devs screaming how they got x times more productive, observe rewrites from major FOSS products, and still they assume their employer is going to keep the whole team employed.

Also on the other subjects you mention, I got distracted with convenience during the last years, however apparently it is about time to save what is still possible to keep computing open.

[AlexeyBelov]

I think you don't actually agree with them, because this user _is_ the one screaming in almost every thread. Full on psychosis.

[layla5alive]

Indeed. When are we going to wake up and stand up to this? "Freedom?" This is not freedom. Liberty? Nope. This really is techno-serfdom. Power and capability for me (govts / large corps) but not for thee (us, the serfs).

[Eisenstein]

Almost always, the future ends up being bad, but not in the ways we think it will.

[ai_brain_rot]

I bet 99.99% of people who have ever lived would say the future got better than when they were alive if they could.

This seems a silly statement

[Eisenstein]

You are mistaking aggregate for specifics. It may be better on whole, but there are always aspects that are worse.

[ai_brain_rot]

Got it, so your statement was meaningless

[wolvesechoes]

> I bet 99.99% of people who have ever lived would say the future got better than when they were alive if they could

This says much more about you, Last Man, than anything else.