Elected in part by the useful idiots on HN and many other places. They were so ignorant of how government actually works they were happy to give it this power. They foresaw the jackboot being used to stomp petty criminals and fellow middle class types who don't "pay their fair share". But they had never cracked open a history book because if they had they would know that sort of stuff is never a top priority.
50,000 years may come to pass, and nothing will be funnier than HN defending Apple's App Store monopoly one year and then realizing what a catastrophic disaster it was 6 months later.
Are we sure that formalized populist regulation is the boogeyman? Like, really absolutely super duper double-checked certain?
Elected in part by the useful idiots on HN and many other places. They were so ignorant of how government actually works they were happy to give it this power. They foresaw the jackboot being used to stomp petty criminals and fellow middle class types who don't "pay their fair share". But they had never cracked open a history book because if they had they would know that sort of stuff is never a top priority.