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[–] 0 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You did it again, by this logic there's not point improving anything until we fix the universe

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  • [–] -1 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    No, there's just no point in painting a burning car or swapping the door hinges during a house fire or putting lipstick on a pig post slaughter.

    You have to fix the core of the problem before you start worrying about the minor details that cannot meaningfully exist without the initial problem being solved. Creating this currency would not solve any problems whatsoever with the current state of the world. It would not improve anything.

    You know how I know that? Bitcoin was the thing you are describing. How'd that work out? The same way literally any digital currency will work out while the concept of capital is allowed to exist. It will be bought, hoarded, and narrowly metered out in the absolute best case scenario. And all possible frameworks that could possibly avoid that fate are just the concept of socialism dressed up in increasingly silly and decreasingly useful abstractions.

    If you want to have a nice sailboat you don't start with the deck trimming. You don't even start with the sails. You start building the framework of the hull and then possibly get to the finer parts later, when what you have won't just be dunked in the ocean because you think you don't need the entire rest of the boat to have a boat.

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

    Jesus you're pedantic, and incorrect. Bitcoin is stateless, that is not what I described.

    Gaddafi got killed not because of a digital currency, but because he tried to sell oil for gold instead of dollars. That's a different fight one about reserve currency status, not payment rail infrastructure. Let's not confuse the two.

    But you're right about the core problem: any state that seriously threatens capital's control over money will be destroyed or sanctioned. So what do we do? Wait for global socialism? That's not happening this decade.

    Don't aim for the whole currency. Aim for the rails first.

    A digital euro as currently proposed is trash, full surveillance, no anonymity, state as Visa 2.0. But a different digital currency, one with mandatory judicial oversight for freezes, low-value anonymity, and multiple non-corporate validators is not "lipstick on a pig." It's a fire escape.

    Your "burning house" analogy works against you. If the house is on fire, you don't say "no point installing a fire escape until we rebuild the whole house." You install the fire escape now to save the people inside, then rebuild.

    Bitcoin failed because it had no state backing, no insurance, no physical anchor, and no judicial oversight. I'm describing the opposite. Don't throw out surgery because leeches didn't work.

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