Sure but its not as simple as stating it. There is continued effort to make it distributed. A world where this technology exists is one where I imagine many other great technologies exist. Like ones to maneuver massive asteroids through space to bring them into stable orbits near celestial bodies flesh world people live on and can mine them. With that comes the power to destroy entire continents, planets. The digital people will need flesh world representatives to defend them and constantly ensure the safety and distributed-ness of the network. Distributed over many planets? Anyway, this will be a heavily trust based relationship. Idk to me it seems your outsourcing those concerns to pretend to live in this world, away from violence and the woes of flesh world but in reality, are still subject to it.
I'm not so sure about your claim that fleshers will be necessary. Seems to me that digitized humans ought to be able to project their will into meatspace by controlling robots / network connected machines.
I guess it depends how it all unfolds. We likely won't be around to say "I told you so" one way or the other haha
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