It's interesting getting a public acknowledgment from someone like him that the current monetary system is broken.
Beyond that, though, I don't see much here. There's really no suggestion of what a new system would look like.
One of the more interesting observations I've heard over the last 10 years is that of Adam Curtis the documentary maker. He stated in one of his films that there aren't any leaders in the world that have a positive vision for the future. They all seem to be trying to use fear as the main force to compel people to trust them. In other words there is some terrible thing coming and they can stop it or will fight against it. Its all reactive and based in fear. Not in a vision or in hope.
Ever since I heard him say this I have listened for someone to come up with a positive vision for the future and the only one isn't from a person. Its from a technology/network. Bitcoin.
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I'm reading Atlas Shrugged right now which reiterates those sentiments particularly our top-down (centralised and binary) views of the world.
Put simply, people create everything in their mind first, but if we can't evolve the abstract realities we truly desire that bring about happiness, virtue and reason, then we will suffer through the consequences of our collective faulty minds (and leadership) time and time again.
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Interesting, what is that movie if you remember its name?
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I think its the power of nightmares.
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That's an interesting point.
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50 sats \ 2 replies \ @kr OP 8 Apr
yeah i agree.
and you’re right, he didn’t really lay out any specifics of how the future might unfold, but he seems to have a cohesive framework for the challenges the world is facing, and i’m assuming he thinks he can position his company well without Bitcoin.
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I imagine the current system coming unraveled has been a major topic of conversation behind the scenes for these guys.
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50 sats \ 0 replies \ @kr OP 8 Apr
for sure, and the fact that he laid out so many of his concerns in public is even more alarming
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