IMO these folk are doing a great job slowly chipping away at all the barriers to using guile everywhere. Also, their software, like "Goblins", gets the imagination started up, mulling what the next wave of software could be like.

Far crazier things have happened on this planet than switching to Linux and retraining some IT folk.

If there are terrible crimes being committed by a dictator then there is the ICC and the UN. It would require building up rather than undermining the institution but it’s there.

You say this like it is a law of nature, but we can plan and build it directly if we want it. Redundancy is not something that only emerges from an indirect 4d-chess strategy of ownership mixes.

Even under capitalism there is a lot of central planning at huge scales. Walmart is one American example. Woolworths and Coles are another couple in Australia. These companies aren’t rocketing up at the market each morning and taking the latest price… they are managing supply and pricing end to end for most of what they do in advanced.