1/ It is easy to derive selfishly optimal actions given any status quo. You don't need complicated math. There are generally well-known solutions to the problem of living that get crystallized in empirically-verifiable clichés and aphorisms.
4/ Unless you're successful in inducing a change — which demands more and more collective action as the scale of the change grows — you bear heavy expenses for no personal (tangible) benefit. And if you fail, you're seen as non-authoratative / unreliable — w.r.t the status quo!
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5/ Thus, the status quo is incredibly stable. Even given a powerful shock, the scramble for comforting regularity invites a socio-cultural recurrence. None of this is particularly insightful.
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6/ Mostly, I'm venting because the techbro's insistence on portraying themselves as heroic iconoclasts bravely swimming against the current to bring fire to the mortals annoys the shit out of me. (Probably for the same reasons libertarians bother me -- I used to be one!)
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7/ But, the real story is that almost everyone I entrepreneur I meet here can play the startup lottery endlessly; using skills generally acquired because coding/engineering/entrepreneurship is fun; while reaping stupendous rewards by exploiting some aspect of the status quo.
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8/ They're generally not swimming against the current. They're surfing it.
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9/ Tech isn't inherently bad or good. And new tech can and does change the world! But if you fail to recognize your motivations & reality while relying upon heroic delusions, you're just propagating that bullshit — and the status quo — into a future with more gadgets.
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