The other post just raised it as something to think about. It's a good idea to do a sanity check once in a while.
More technology has generally been better, but not in all cases and it's not guaranteed to continue that way.
Bitcoin is cool, but the consequence is using a lot of energy and facilitating a lot of extortion. Open source seems great, but it also facilitated the rise of AWS which effectively locks people out of software more than closed source software ever did.
We already know the rationalizations, we tell themselves to ourselves every day. But remembering the costs is healthy.
