And all three teams are waaay too nationalist: they view things from the perspective of their own country, and ignore or exploit everyone else. Even when the teams are internationalist in theory, their specific ways of interpreting their values make them unpalatable outside of a small part of the world.

The rise of Web 2.0 was heralded as an advancement by not just allowing people to read and write content and do transactions but to connect with each other in new ways. That gave rise, eventually, to Facebook and other social networks, along with a raft of “sharing economy” companies that peddled a fantasy of building community at the heart of busi... See more

Certainly, their all-encompassing power creates a far more negative impression than the romantic image of computer geeks making cool gadgets in garages. As new waves of highly disruptive technologies start to strip more Americans of their jobs—and as we’ll see later, cryptocurrencies could well be included in those—resentment toward the “wisdom” of

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