Peter Thiel Fears the Peter Thiel Is Coming
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Re: Peter Thiel Fears the Antichrist Is Coming
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> I am having a hard time thinking of a mode of power that isn’t far more centralized today than it was just 2, 4, 6, 8, … years ago. Electrical power. That used to be almost entirely centralised, but it's increasingly easy to be off-grid. Manufacturing power. I don't know the full dynamics, but there's clearly a lot of cheap good tools easily available, so the term "cottage industry" still makes literal sense. Comms…
3D printing hasn’t taken power away from anybody. The percentage of goods manufactured in the world that come from the set of the top 5 or top 10 or top 100 or top 1000 sources have all increased today relative to before. I agree on electricity though. Cheap solar panels have made distributed energy possible in a way that was unimaginable even 20 years ago.
3D printing hasn’t taken power away from anybody.
It frightens the incumbent powers badly: https://app.leg.wa.gov/billsummary?BillNumber=2321&Year=2025
That's a good way to recognize sources and movement of power.