The common techie posture that politics doesn’t matter/isn’t a solution to anything is no longer harmless. Thing is, politics has the potential to become a much bigger problem even if it offers no solutions. There’s low upside to good politics, high downside to bad politics.
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Politics is a game where zero-sum is actually the best case outcome. It can get arbitrarily negative sum.
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Is this a change/evolution of your position in breaking smart? I have a draft open about that sitting there for weeks but still can’t get my head around it. I mean, I agree with most things but it clashes when it comes to political action.
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