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The weak link in the chain is of course the fake bargain of free services and 'accept all partners/types' data use.
Plus the obvious challenge of dual-use of technologies for mapping and autonomy.
Dual-use (military and non-military) is everything now, because all the relative technological effort is in getting things where they need to be - not the actually going 'bang' to kill people, bit.
With the IRA the Biden Administration tried market-based carbon emissions reduction while the Trump administration is pursuing a degrowth strategy instead. RIP Paul Ehrlich you'd love this shit.
To go even more meta on this great point:
If capitalism is the attempt at the harnessing and governance of 'stuff that you can get *rich* peddling' - then our capitalism as experienced is increasingly
a) sick, and
b) counter to stable mass democracy
'Capitalism is the best method we have for marrying up broad-based productivity that fulfills human flourishing and stabilises democratic societies, while also managing elite resource and power bargains with low(ish) costs'
Vs
'Oh no, I've looked outside in the 2020's'
