people spend decades trying to fix institutions from inside. it almost never works, and when it does the problem reformulated three times in the meantime. the real reason isn't corruption or resistance. those are symptoms. it's computational irreducibility. you cannot predict the outputs of complex systems without running them. you can't see what the system does until it does it. what works is standing outside and building differently. the cypherpunks understood this. you don't lobby for privacy. you write code that makes surveillance irrelevant. most people won't come. that's fine. the ones who do are the ones the building was for.