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This is because people refuse to acknowledge and solve the core issues. Techies think all you need to do is to create a ideologically superior technology and pe
by serverholic 4y ago
This is because people refuse to acknowledge and solve the core issues. Techies think all you need to do is to create a ideologically superior technology and people will gravitate to it over time.
People will gravitate towards whatever is easiest unless incentivized to do otherwise. Usually incentives are either social or financial and interestingly both are being attempted currently.
The left-leaning folks are trying the social pressure route. One of the themes of the modern left is trying to change culture in order to pressure people into doing the right thing. You can see this right now with the vitriol against Elon Musk on twitter. This vitriol creates social pressure.
The libertarian-minded folks are attempting the financial route. One way of viewing crypto is as a tool to bribe people away from traditional institutions. Crypto wallets are essentially bribing people to install cryptographic tools onto their devices. De-fi is trying to lure people away from traditional financial institutions.
How you judge either movement is up to you. I’m just saying what I’ve observed. It’s also worth noting that each movement is creating copies of traditional web apps. There is a crypto version of reddit and a federated version of reddit for example.