Agreed.

Good engineers are incredibly downstream oriented. They are the first to realize when the system they are working on is heading down a dangerous path.

This is why I think the best engineers and programmers already are, or will become increasingly aware of the dangers of central planning, and as a result will converge with bitcoin and decentralization.

Atlas Shrugged among engineers: 'mysterious' flaws and vulnerabilities in vital systems will multiply like wildfire, as the insightful system architects are realizing they are contributing to a totalitarian system without error-correction.

Every programmer is bound to realize that a system without functions for error-correction is a catastrophy waiting to explode. Add then dependencies upon central chokepoints of control. Dependencies upon dependencies. The outcome becomes clear and the remedy even clearer: decentralization of power.