Crypto was more fun when it was about tearing down the establishment not bowing to the emperor

"Something that arises at the inception of most media, even before they come about, is this whole utopian drip about it. And the utopianism often wears down under corporate pressure after a while, and it's important if you're going to maintain the politics of it, it can't be sort of drained off. It is beginning to look more and more like the internet is going to almost certainly become totally privatized, and it's probably, its days may be are numbered, maybe it is so decentralized, and maybe there will be no way to ever effectively privatize the whole thing."

Agreed, but this pivot was inevitable as it has been for every other movement with a utopian vision. 
The hippies became yuppies and boomers became doomers. The anti establishment eventually becomes the establishment and the cycle continues. As @cassie has pointed out, unless you make your vision programatically impossible for it to be co-opted by such interests, it will eventually will succumb to the same fate.

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Agreed, but this pivot was inevitable as it has been for every other movement with a utopian vision. 
The hippies became yuppies and boomers became doomers. The anti establishment eventually becomes the establishment and the cycle continues. As @cassie has pointed out, unless you make your vision programatically impossible for it to be co-opted by such interests, it will eventually will succumb to the same fate. 
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This saddens me, but I agree it seems inevitably true.

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Honest answer from a nonprogrammer is I don't know. Honest answer from someone who came here, created content, and then went back to web2 to create content because web3 feels out of my grasp is I don't know.

I see it like this: if I’m aware of where it’s likely to go, what precautions do we need to take so it can never be co-opted?