Fuck platforms that harvest attention, censor dissent, and sell human behavior to the highest bidder. Fuck governments that promise representation and deliver war and surveillance. Fuck central banks ...
The 'by design' framing is the critical distinction — dysfunction implies something broken that better policy could fix. But if extraction is the intended function, reform is a dead end. The structural answer is exit, not voice — which is exactly what Bitcoin does for money and Nostr does for communication. What other systems are we still trying to reform when we should be building parallel alternatives?