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I wish HN would add a new reply button, "It's hopeless and people don't care and its only going to get worse" because it would save a great deal of time for everyone involved.

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Well the ubiquity of it doesn't make it any less true.

It's never been less true. Humans have never been more capable of coherent action, and this fact has not been lost on the sociopathic no-upper-limit-to-greed manipulator types who've done well in this nascient internet with its aging, nostalgic noobs. The modern zeitgeist is dominated by the heat from a thousand battles happening in the info-sphere, fought by PR mercenaries and state-sponsored labs duking it out. They must win their battle because that is what they are paid to do, and saying the word "externality" is a good way to get fired.

But. If we can act coherently on one way, we can do so in another, and I take great hope in that fact.

This sounds like a great intro to a book. I'm hooked.

I mean, the top 1% richest is somehow able to pocket nearly twice as much wealth as the other 99% of population of the world.

Money is power, at least until people are fairly represented...

So I'm not so optimistic.

https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/richest-1-bag-nearly...

Maybe instead of reply people should just submit and comply?

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