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What if you think the only political problem worthy of resolution is politics itself? That is, the two wolves and a lamb voting on who is for dinner model expan
by etherael 4y ago
What if you think the only political problem worthy of resolution is politics itself? That is, the two wolves and a lamb voting on who is for dinner model expanded up to encompass 7 billion dumb apes. I would argue the only thing worth caring about is that they can't vote that you're for dinner. It doesn't matter how many other people are along for the ride or back happily engaging in the prior game. Getting people to change sides can't be a part of the problem by definition because if a political solution were actually possible then we would not be where we are.
The only problem to solve is insulating yourself from the demonstrably awful global political process. And ledgers which that political process can't change are arguably an essential part of that solution.
If states and the political process didn't exist and you had to actually pitch it as a business model to modern venture capitalists, it would be a near impossible task.
So your customers are just some group of people inside the borders of some contiguous territory over which you exert direct military control?
And you claim no duty to that group and despite a demonstrable failure in basically everything you do relative to the traditional form of execution, you demand a pricing model that amounts to some permutation of "tell us how much you made and spent this year, great now we want a cut of x out of it".
And all your customers have to do to evade your business model is leave?
And you only transact in tokens you continuously create out of thin air with the thinnest imaginable pretexts?
And last century when this was tried it was the largest non natural cause of death?
And your failure mode may provoke an extinction level event?
Why would anybody actually participate in any of this for any reason other than they have no viable alternative whatsoever and thus you end up with a self selecting group of participants who consume more economic resources than they produce? Apple pie and baseball is not an acceptable answer. Isn't economic collapse basically inevitable?
Oh that's where we are now back in the real world? Well that's inconvenient. Better get to building alternatives asap.