> Everybody everywhere wants peace. Along with justice, freedom, and love, it is one of the most unifying characteristics of the human condition. People want s

> Everybody everywhere wants peace. Along with justice, freedom, and love, it is one of the most unifying characteristics of the human condition. People want safety and stability. In the context of large societies, a mutual desire for peace exists only because the alternative (large scale war) has such terrible consequences. In fact, for centuries - and still in many places today - the opposite has been true: increasing wealth by exploitation of other nations' resources has been used as the rationale for military conquest. > But again, humanity has a deep desire for the verdant. The deprecation of "easy" money, global theft, and warfare-as-the-norm - these are continuing imperatives and are good prayers for our earth. And on long time scales, it seems that blockchain tech tends toward, rather than away from, these things. These are lovely sentiments, but trustworthy and accountable/transparent institutions made of people are the only thing that can achieve that kind of vision, not some kind of invisible hand of justice that one assumes is behind blockchain. That is basically anarchism - leaving matters of broad societal importance: justice, finance, etc. to the mob. We humans have been there before. It isn't pretty.