The Rise and Fall of Urbit

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16 points·jacobedawson··3 comments

The most surprising fact here is to learn that a few years ago Urbit was actually used by some people.

Urbit is just another example of many that people will fall for fascist ideas if you make it esoteric enough. Whether it is through stupid names or lying about what you are actually doing doesn't really matter.

Curtis Yarvin made little effort to hide his disgusting ideas and it should be pretty clear to anyone who spent five minutes understanding urbit that it is just encoding those ideas into feudalist system.

When you truly examine it, true end-stage democracy (and _not just_ a Republic) - which would be “by the people, for the people”, allowing everyone direct participatory contributions via technology - is the political expression of communism. It puts political power into the hands of the people in the same way communism puts economic power into the hands of the working class.

Which is why so many “tech bros” are rejecting democracy: they have bought into the toxic cult of the charismatic and talented leader. Which, when you scratch the surface, has absolutely nothing to do with charisma or talent, and everything to do with luck, intergenerational wealth, and societal power.

They seek to be a part of the elite that comes out in control on the far end of democracy’s destruction, not understanding that kings and emperors don’t suffer rivals or threats to their power.

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