Absolute banger of a post shared by @tarakiyee on another network. Every other paragraph is quote-worthy.
"That impulse to scour away the messiness that makes life resilient is what many conservation biologists call the pathology of command and control. Today, the same drive to centralize, control and extract has driven the internet to the same fate as the ravaged forests."
Economist. Antitrust policy; industrial organization; history of economics
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