| It doesn't go all the way down. Obviously, you can't have a society where some people are free to murder other people. But other than ensuring freedom and basic human rights (and perhaps some other minimal rules), why should you have the right to decide how other people live? Do you really think you (or rather, the majority of people) are really that wise? Isn't that being pretentious? I will give you a challenge if you want. Give me one law or rule that exists now (in this society that you like so much) but wouldn't exist in my view of society that I explained above, and I will tell you how that law is ethically wrong in at least one (admittedly, possibly slightly contrived) situation. > You know what's interesting? Whenever I bring up this whole "Bitcoin is undemocratic" idea, no bitcoin defender ever says, yeah, we should work to include more people in how it's run. Not one. Well, the point of my comments in this whole thread was to explain to you why a democratic vote is not a particularly good decision-making process at all (by the way, I find it amazing how when people see the word "democratic" they automatically shutdown their brains and assume it's good... it must sound like "bacon" in some accents or something :-). So do you also want decisions at companies to be done by a democratic vote? Should all the people in the country (or in the world) decide how Microsoft or Apple is run? The point of Bitcoin being open source is that if you don't like it, YOU can create your own Bitcoin alternative literally with the click of a button! (And again, many people have!). So why are you imposing your economic policy on Bitcoin when you can have your own economic policy along with all the people that agree with you, call it Frondocoin, click on a button and have it created 5 minutes later? Now compare with your way of doing things, that you said yourself: > propose something better and do the leg-work to persuade everyone that Wizemanbucks are the right way to go. In time, with enough of a national coalition supporting you, you'll be able to build the political organizations to encourage people to vote for Wizemanbucks. Keep at it, and if people really do like your ideas, you'll have a new currency, just to your liking. Does this really sound easier, cheaper, or better in any way than what I described?
Do you even think that what you said is even possible or realistic in any way? You think that if I don't agree with the way the USD is managed, then with some effort I would be able to do what you proposed and change the national currency of the USA? I think you are being deluded if you think that's even remotely possible. It doesn't even matter which economic policy I wanted (not even if I think that the interest rates should be only 0.05% higher than what they are now). People don't vote Republicans or Democrats because they think some interest rate should be 0.05% higher. They vote because charismatic politicians go on television and say what people want to hear... |