Comment by pfdietz
2 days ago
Is it a bad thing? We live in a society. We depend on the work of other people. We are not autonomous. Sure, we can try to be self-sufficient, and that would lead to a subsistence lifestyle much degraded compared to what we experience.
Somehow you have to argue either that society itself is bad, or that math is somehow different from all these other human activities.
I think the obvious fact that people prefer to live in places with large commercial organizations shows they don't really care about that, at least to the point of foregoing the benefits these organizations bring.
> Somehow you have to argue either that society itself is bad
The current model of society in the US is undeniably bad. The idea of “checks and balances”, taught in high school civics, has essentially completely disappeared.
But that’s a medium-term problem, which will correct itself. People who think they can eliminate checks on themselves eventually find out that they’re wrong.