Comment by dgudkov

>Is there anything in particular that makes you believe that it'll eventually happen?

Humans have demonstrated the ability to eventually improve social systems to make them account for the needs and demands of the majority of stakeholders. In the offline world it has evolved into what is known as democracy. It started several centuries ago and eventually evolved into modern governments as we know it - publicly elected management boards.

Recently, there was an excellent article [1] on HN. It rightfully compared the current state of internet to the feudal times and warlords common in the offline world many centuries ago. From that point through a long and painful process we've come to elected governments as the most sustainable form of governing a large number of humans. All other forms of government turned out to be unsustainable (no matter how attractive they were to certain individuals or organizations) and inevitably led to all kinds of social catastrophes.

I believe, the same will eventually happen to the internet, our new brave world we used to love, but now seem to become increasingly disenchanted with.

[1] https://locusmag.com/2021/01/cory-doctorow-neofeudalism-and-...