Words like “empowerment”, “decentralization”, and “devolution” when used unironically by techies/business people, amount to an “I don’t understand politics” admission. They’re not wrong about the trends. They just expect “100-years-later” effects now, and “now” effects not at all
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Some are just bullshitting because their jobs, like many, are greased according to Sturgeon's Law.
Some are genuinely ignorant, often to Dunning-Kruger levels, about the entire subject.
A few of us are attempting unironically to plant trees we know we won't rest under.

