politics

to all of my pro-democracy friends here: we need to realize that the majority of people, especially those in tech, currently prefer technocracy over democracy. they actively want autocrats to tell them what to do and how to live because they think it’s easier to get to their superficial goals that way. 

it’s unlikely you’re going to change their mind until it blows up in their face. stay strong; stay in control where you can; keep those technocrats as friends where possible. ride the rapids and stay alive - the time of democracy will come again. 

people just have to learn the hard way sometimes.

because knowing is finding the limits /bettik founder /outercorps stalwart

I think the makeup up of tech is a little more complicated that two buckets of beliefs, especially in crypto. For example, most bitcoin maxis are hard core libertarian that see technocracy as no better than leftist statism.

Unfortunately, the American political process forces a choice between two flavors of statism.

The beautiful thing about the US Constitution is that it limits government by breaking power up into three branches, and it concluded the Bill of Rights with the 10th amendment. In my many years of voting and hearing "this is the end of the republic" by each side, I remain encouraged by this strong constitutional foundation.