Sublime

So the naive libertarian belief in a fully decentralized Hayekian order does not always come about. American Anarchy, Chinese Control, International Intermediate Here we give a bit more detail on a sci-fi scenario141 in which the US descends into a chaotic Second American Civil War, the CCP responds with the opposite extreme of a total surveillance

Bobby recognized that Chinese people would have little interest in the libertarian ideas of American Bitcoiners—decades of state-sponsored communism had killed most interest in ideologies.

The merger of infotech and biotech might soon push billions of humans out of the job market and undermine both liberty and equality. Big Data algorithms might create digital dictatorships in which all power is concentrated in the hands of a tiny elite while most people suffer not from exploitation but from something far worse—irrelevance.