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Requiring any disruption to take broad effect before saying it's a 'disruption' makes that word useless. That would be like saying a crack in a wall doesn't mat
by DickingAround 11y ago
Requiring any disruption to take broad effect before saying it's a 'disruption' makes that word useless. That would be like saying a crack in a wall doesn't matter till the wall falls over. The real question is whether this is hairline crack that the rebar of their society will keep in place or if it's a crack that's unchecked and will continue to grow?
- davidgerard 11y agoRequiring a disruption to at least barely register is pretty fair though. Bitcoin itself barely registers as an economic disruption (though it's got a lot of coverage for its reputational relation to criminals and scams), and this "disruption" barely registers in relation to something that barely registers. This article is a press release for a book.
- juanignacio 11y agoIt may disrupt the traditional way money is moved around in the River Plate: in bags and attached to body in the ferry to Montevideo.
- bencollier49 11y ago"Threatens to disrupt".
- kleer001 11y agoGood call. That would have been wholly correct, enthusiastic, optimistic, and I would have still clicked the link.
- kleer001 11y ago> That would be like saying a crack in a wall doesn't matter till the wall falls over. If you point at a crack in the wall and say "The wall is falling over!" I'm going to laugh in your face. Then I'll get some spackle.
- mikeash 11y agoHow does it make the word useless? For your wall analogy, let's look at the word "destroy." A crack starts in the wall, and grows until the wall falls over. At this point, the wall is destroyed. But when the crack that eventually destroys the wall is still small, is the wall "destroyed" at that point? Of course not. Does that make the word "destroyed" useless? Not at all.