So, What about Politics?
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Argues that software and networks are political by design and that early hacker hope that technology alone would realize freedom fails because capitalism appropriates tools for profit, turning users into data commodities. Shows blockchain only decentralizes network control not wealth or social power and warns miners become leeches as markets reward speculation. Contrasts proof of work with proof of stake as mechanisms that concentrate influence, urges building protocols and governance that explicitly distribute social power and enforce chosen norms in code.
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