@jonathancolton

Nepal's government banned 26 social media platforms to stop a protest. 100,000 people moved to Discord and toppled the government in 4 days. This wasn't ideology beating authority. It was the coordination costs dropping below suppression costs. When that math flips, the monopoly breaks. Speech. Money. Coordination. Information. All four are going permissionless simultaneously, for the first time in human history. The institutions that survive won't be the ones with the most resources. They'll be the ones who stop owning coordination and start orchestrating it. The ones that don't adapt will learn what Nepal's PM learned. Full essay: https://paragraph.com/@jonathancolton.eth/the-collapse-of-the-coordination-monopoly

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