But instead what happens is that everyone walks away.

They’ll die of starvation. The Amish have a system worked out. The typical Westerner doesn’t have such an agricultural community to turn to. Economies-of-scale and diversity in food production are important. Our advanced standard-of-living requires global trade. Our just-in-time (JIT) inventory and delivery systems are reliant on the banking system.

Which is why the West may starve and return to the Stone age if some factions don’t separate from the societalcide madness.

well, imagine turning this plug & play tech into defense drones. Smaller, cheaper, easier to build. Defenese becomes trivial. Attacking becomes increasingly harder.

It’s entirely uneconomical to produce from raw materials dug out of the earth at such small scale. TPTB control the raw inputs, global trade, etc..

Power and internet [infrastructure] becomes decentralized.

Implausible. Fantasy.

We may be able to decentralize the software layered on top of the Internet infrastructure with blockchains. I continue to have some hope about that and want to work on that.

My hope is we can reduce the share of the global economy subject to the power-law distribution.

Large cities are pretty much emptied.

Precisely the opposite is what is going to transpire. Because of cost of network scaling for example.

Revelations' prophecy will never happen.

It’s happening right now.

[…] are tasked with building heaven on earth. Of course it will take time, but it is coming.

Only Babylons are built by humans on Earth.

Hey I’m an idealistic realist.