I think it's fair to assert the correlation, absolutely.  Which is why one must always be suspicious of centralized power, wherever that power comes from.

SimpleStacker

Would it be fair to assert that weaknesses in systems, especially relatively monolithic ones, will 

This is essentially how I once envisioned "Bitcoin fixes this". That is not the popular 2018 Ammous vision of replacing one flawed system with another, but the one where we get a chance to choose our own tradeoffs, and opt out of what we feel works against us while still having something to opt in to.

Stacker_Stocks

econ

Is there still such a thing as the free market?

billytheked

Would it be fair to assert that weaknesses in systems, especially relatively monolithic ones, will **always** be exploited? 

<sub>This is essentially how I once envisioned "Bitcoin fixes this". That is not the popular 2018 Ammous vision of replacing one flawed system with another, but the one where we get a chance to choose our own tradeoffs, and opt out of what we feel works against us while still having something to opt in to.</sub>