"We also have the advantage of hindsight and know, without question, that all of these predicted outcomes were wrong."

I mean and others were swimming around in the same IRC, Usenet, and LambdaMOO etc soup in the early 90s, too, and in the mid 90s I was already screaming about what bullshit techno-libertarian capitalism was, but OK. I didn't live in the Bay Area, I guess I just never caught the disease.

My strident same-ish topic text from the same period back then that I waved annoyingly around, instead, was "The Californian Ideology": https://monoskop.org/images/d/dc/Barbrook_Richard_Cameron_An...

That one has aged a hell of a lot better. And argues exactly the opposite positions on just about everything. God it feels prophetic now.