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I like how engineers have expanded their ambition from starting as almost clerks to scientists (when the job of a programmer was almost exclusively data entry a
by tw1010 9y ago
I like how engineers have expanded their ambition from starting as almost clerks to scientists (when the job of a programmer was almost exclusively data entry a few decades ago) to nowdays feeling like they can understand and modify everything in society with these powerful tools below their fingertips.
- a_d 9y agoYou are right. One of PG's main contribution is to provide a path for engineers to come into money (makers make money; as opposed to professional managers). Today engineers are (re) inventing money itself, thus "owning" the unit in which they come into money.
- firasd 9y agoI think Vitalik (the author of this piece and co-founder of Ethereum) in particular thinks differently than Bitcoin creator Satoshi. Vitalik doesn't think there are any easy answers to things like how to incentivize mining and so forth. He believes there needs to be a study of 'cryptoeconomics': https://vitalik.ca/general/2018/03/28/plutocracy.html https://vitalik.ca/general/2018/03/28/plutocracy.html
- joosters 9y agoVitalik can’t get his own flawed cryptocurrency to be useful or usable (except for scammers) and yet he wants to tell everyone how to solve the rest of the world’s problems?
- baddox 9y agoI find his cryptocurrency useful, and I am not a scammer, a purchaser of illegal drugs, or even (much of a) speculator.