🏴 Cypherpunk Manifesto

I. Identity

• I grew up online --- IRC, mailing lists, and text-to-speech helped me overcome dyslexia.
• I was called “high-risk” for saying we already live in a cyberpunk dystopia.
• I see what others miss: structures, control systems, artificial scarcity.
• I wasn’t high-risk. I was early.

II. The System

• Elites want markets for them, not for us.
• Property, information, and even freedom are treated as privileges, not rights.
• The state and corporations collude to control resources, speech, and opportunity.
• Capitalism warped into cronyism. Socialism warped into bureaucracy.
• What we live under now isn’t capitalism or socialism.
• It’s totalitarian corporatism: authoritarian control in the mask of democracy.

III. Scarcity & Abundance

• Scarcity of land and raw resources real. Scarcity of refined and manufactured goods is artificial.
• Housing, food, and medicine exist in abundance but are hoarded, zoned, and paywalled.
• Information is post-scarcity --- but DRM and copyright laws enforce digital cages.
• AI will be the next battleground of enforced scarcity vs. open abundance.

IV. Open Source: Capitalism Perfected

• Open source is a true free-market without gatekeepers.
• Value comes from what you create and share --- not what you hoard.
• Profit is honest: from service, hosting, customization, not artificial scarcity.
• Linux, Python, PostgreSQL, Sqlite , Ollama, PGP: the backbone of real freedom.

V. Optimism

• Privacy is no longer “weird” --- it’s responsible.
• Linux is mainstreaming --- Steam Deck, Android, servers.
• Event PewDiePie switched to Arch Linux, this is proof that Linux, Open Source and Self Hosting is ready for the mainstream.
• Open source is winning, even when corporations fight it.
• Decentralization is alive in federated systems, even if small.
• The counterculture is growing.

VI. Declaration

• We live in a cyberpunk dystopia.
• But we don’t just imagine it --- we resist it, subvert it, and build alternatives.
• Freedom isn’t given. It’s built.