Compute is ASI-era land, but only cap tables decide who gets a claim
krishnan · x · 2026-10-30
Drawing on the 1862 Homestead Act — which gave 160 acres to nearly anyone willing to farm, distributing 270 million acres, a tenth of the country — krishnan argues land was that era's abundance and a law decided the claims. Compute is the ASI era's land, yet no law has decided anything about its allocation; a few cap tables have. His question: who gets a claim this time?
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