alt Hacker News> Why is having power concentrated in few hands better?
Because most people are dangerous morons. I don't think most people should be allowed to operate a car, let alone the most powerful tool for misinformation that has ever existed
> Why is having power concentrated in few hands better?
Because most people are dangerous morons. I don't think most people should be allowed to operate a car, let alone the most powerful tool for misinformation that has ever existed
I mean, you're clearly not wrong, but how do you propose implementing your worldview without doing even more harm to humanity?
The only thing worse than a powerful, dangerous tool in the hands of the masses is a powerful, dangerous tool controlled exclusively by powerful, dangerous people. (Cue the usual moronic analogies involving thermonuclear weapons...)