J. Nathan Matias 🦣 on Nostr: nprofile1q…hdzj8 I think so. There’s a precursor to this in the water, railroad, ...

nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqlh08a23nkqpnjjm3ve7z3u5u427vdztg8yc42jyf75p49pwk4lxqlhdzj8 (nprofile…dzj8) I think so. There’s a precursor to this in the water, railroad, and mining politics of California, which I think is partly where tech got these ideas. I used to think myself a bit arcane for reading so much 18th century and early 19th century progressive history but this country seems more and more headed toward contemporary versions of problems a previous generation thought they solved