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Or perhaps the economists are far more familiar with BTC's precursors in spirit and practice than you are. Very few concepts are truly original. That you can't
by illuminate 14y ago
Or perhaps the economists are far more familiar with BTC's precursors in spirit and practice than you are. Very few concepts are truly original. That you can't imagine them does not mean that the economists are wrong.
(Granted, they could be still, but arguing from a lack of imagination is far less convincing.)
- jostmey 14y agoAn idea does not have to be novel or radically different from everything before it to be revolutionary. Perhaps the best ideas simply build on the old ones.
- illuminate 14y agoWhich is true (and why I think BTC's children will fare much better) but "revolutionary" doesn't mean unfathomable, unquestionable, and alien from all that's come before.