It's funny how people think a post-apocalyptic landscape will be relatively flat socioeconomically. At most they think there will be small-scale warlords or Dunbar-scale anarchist communes. No. There will be deathstar billionaires with private armies and narrow-deep tech stacks.
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Putin vs. oligarchs, and China vs. its oligarchs are probably the last chapter of the ancient conflict between wealth clans and impersonal nation states that the latter have a decisive advantage in. If the nation states weaken by say another order of magnitude, the oligarchs win.
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I'm an ideologue here. I like some billionaires, dislike others. If there's no broad-based civilizational condition, I'd be willing to pick among billionaires rather than being out in the wilderness in some sort of ratty indie survivalist camp full of starving people in henleys.
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In many ways, this is already happening of course. I've called it a 4th world condition. And the gated communities are underwritten by billionaire developers, not by states. A lot of us live in one billionaire bubble, earning and spending in other billionaire bubbles :D
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This sounds a bit off. What software tech (which is usually digital or sociological) cannot be acquired and extended with money? Legality is a non-issue when you're talking $billions.
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Acquiring code is not the whole of software technology. Code alone is a liability, not an asset. Software in an industrial sense requires the capacity to maintain it. That is not easily replicated, or even created in the first place. This is the #1 killer of software companies.
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Working on that bit. Can't promise I've got a firm path yet.
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multitemporality ftw
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