I'm not arguing semantics. "The left" and "authoritarianism" are different things. No one said anything about Democrats or Republicans. You are arguing that this is a problem with "the left". If you want to argue that this is a problem with Democrats or with authoritarianism in the either party specifically, that's a separate topic--one that I agree with.
What do you mean "the left"? The farther left you go, the more people see firearms as important for the people to fight oppression. Karl Marx—pretty much as far left as you can go—was very adament about wokers owning guns.
I think you are trying to refer to authoritarians.
It sounds like your problem is with capitalism and not AI and automation. You don't like the extra productivity going towards private institutions rather than the workers they displaced or society as a whole, right?
I think Bitcoin was a good proof of concept that this system can work and scale. Ethereum is trying to be the viable option. I personally like Monero. I am sure in a hundred years or so if crypto is still here, it will be more viable and stable.
Interesting. I've never had any of these issues. It might be because I use a tiling window manager (shoutout Aerospace) instead of Apple's own window manager. Also, I've never really done any development on the mac itself. I just SSH into my Arch Linux server. MacOS is just a frontend to my browser and terminal basically lol. I don't really care about my laptop's OS since it's just a frontend for my server. I just bought whichever laptop was sexiest.
They don't because they are not allowed to. Valve makes game developers sign a contract that if they want their game on Valve, they cannot put it at a lower price on any other store.
Just use Codeberg