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The idea of corporations dominating the internet is not nebulous at all.

Things used to be more ad hoc. People would create their own websites from scratch. There was less centralization. Every website wasn't a boostrap clone.

The pursuit of profit changed things dramatically. As soon as people started making big money on the internet, things changed. FOMO kicked in and the internet became the new gold rush.

Idk man, it seems like you just weren't there at the beginning.



Combat had honor and humanity under the Bushido code. One skilled warrior against another.

Then came guns and cannons, depersonalizing it into a grisly slaughter at the hands of thousands of barely-trained conscripts.

If only we could go back.


Seriously. I mean, it wasn't great, but men had dignity. There's no dignity in getting nuked or mowed down by a machine gun.




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