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by somdax 1937 days ago
> the neo-libertarian escapist approach to economics.

Can you define to me what you mean by that?

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I mean the thought process that goes something like

1. markets are (mostly) good

2. government intervention is (mostly) bad

Therefore:

3. anything that takes power away from government, especially if it increases the role of some kind of market, is good

Which leads to a worldview where the ultimate utopia is one free of the burdens of the government intervention, and you get things like people trying to build side-economies free of regulation (like much of crypto), or private island utopias.

I find it's a blinding ideology, and doesn't really match with my observations of the crypto world so far.

The vast majority of what I see in the crypto space is that it's a safe haven for fraud, money laundering, and the transfer of wealth from the uninformed and/or trusting to the savvy and/or untrustworthy. I see very little other purpose emerging so far. And none of those things seem like they are net positives in the world.