@cstross @simonzerafa

The dotcom bubble killed a lot of companies and not always the "right" ones. This current bubble's insanity is like dotcom + Y2K + S&L. The fallout will likely cripple multiple economies and ruin 401ks across the board. This is looking like a generational collapse on the scale of The Great Depression largely because the current US government is an active participant in the looting and destruction. I suspect multiple governments will prop it up long after it should be dead just to maintain access to the surveillance it enables and use our taxes to do it. Its death will not cripple authoritarian fascists, but it will make it that much harder for the proles to get access to the same tools. Remember when PGP was considered a restricted weapon? I suspect more of that type of thinking to keep it out of our hands but fully in the government's. Just look at how Mythos is being treated.