This is...sort of brilliant.

The origin of every single justice system in the world is to stop cycles of revenge from occurring so they don’t threaten the entire community.

Reinventing weregild from first principles.

Software utilities, I think, must be treated the same way: regulated (including price) and operated under oversight. Otherwise, they're just a robber-baron monopoly with a stranglehold on the economy.
4/5

When half the internet doesn't work because of a failure of a single vendor, that vendor is a utility, in the same way that power, water, and, back in the day, the phone companies, are/were utilities.
3/5

The companies that control that infrastructure, however, cannot be treated as normal companies.
2/5

people need to get used to the idea that a lot of transactional and short term cooperation can happen with people you don’t have long term trust obligations to. that is how the economy works

There is no path to decarbonization without transit.

There is no path to abundant housing without transit.

There is no path to restoring democracy without transit.

There is no "affordability" without transit.

There is no clean energy transition without transit.