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Part IV: Reclaiming Our Systems

Part IV: Reclaiming Our Systems, Our Humanity, and the Future We’ve seen the damage. A legal fiction with no conscience now has immense control over how we eat, how we heal, and how we live.

Part 4: A Different Path for LoRaWAN

In the history of technology, there are forks in the road. Moments where a different choice, a different philosophy, could have led us to a profoundly different world. In this series, we’ve explored the degenerative path taken by many DePIN projects, with Helium as a case study—a project that captured the incredible energy of a community-built network, only to see that energy diverted down a familiar, extractive path. This is the degenerative trajectory toward techno-feudalism, where centralization and extraction create scarcity and render the network’s builders into a surplus population.

Part 2: DePIN's Fork in the Road

A Pattern Emerges The story of Helium, as I detailed in my first post, is not an anomaly. The slide from a grand vision of a “People’s Network” into a centrally-controlled system that primarily benefits its founders and a small handful of insiders is, unfortunately, a well-trodden path in the DePIN space. The issues of opaque governance, extractive tokenomics, and a disregard for the actual community that builds the network are not bugs; they are features of a flawed and deeply ingrained model.

Part 3: From Degenerative to Regenerative

The Principles Are Sound After dissecting the broken models of the DePIN space, it would be easy to become cynical and dismiss the entire concept as a failed experiment. But that would be a mistake.