The irony of living in the modern era where people brag about all the technological advancements that make our lives easier is that you’re still paying for all of it

it’s hard to come up with a list of specifically public goods off the top of my head that are a result of modernity

The only think I can think of is open source software that you can run yourself. I would say the blockchain, but even being decentralized, you still pay for it.

Supply and demand existed in the past, and supply and demand exists now. Even the public goods that we think are free are still financed by tax revenue. The value at which you’re paying for a service will not go down over time just because it got easier to do.

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The aim is to live like a medieval blacksmith who has access to a fault tolerant decentralised computer network

I can imagine the internet being a public good, but the only problem with that is most people don’t own the infrastructure that accesses the internet and need to pay to access it. If every computer was on a mesh network (with Apple it is) freely accessible and emitted to/by the user, that would make the internet free