I really appreciate this take. Many things in life are the outcome of complex systems - he makes some excellent points here and his conclusion is basically the midwit meme on CBDCs.
It's unfortunate that so much of public discourse gets boiled down to the grug vs midwit debate and can be quickly dismissed without appreciating the nuanced argument. The left vs right political identities really do us a disservice here.
Preach.
You might enjoy some of his other writing -- speaking as someone who has spent a grotesque amount of time thinking about this space from weird perspectives, it's remarkable to me how he reliably frames things in a way I hadn't thought about before. Much alpha, if your goal is to understand the world.
Here's a recent example that I liked.
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Appreciate your perspective on the complexities of cashless systems and public discourse Thanks for the example!
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