Oddbean

Well written. I’ve just listened to the first 10min…have to sneak this stuff in between my day job. Really interesting pondering why humans have accepted/wanted these centralized systems over the last 5000 years…not sure if they dive into this more. Is it simply because we haven’t had the tech to allow our hope to grow for a public ledger

Thanks Nadia ☺️ Absence of tech is definitely part of it. I think it’s why Bitcoin is often likened to the harnessing of fire, or the wheel. It allows us to do things that were previously impossible. Jeff touches on how each generation/societal cycle is “tricked” into thinking that the status quo system is the way it has to be, and asks why we would think we haven’t been tricked too, at least until now. He focuses on each of our personal responsibility to make this change happen, which I took to mean stop contributing more energy, more falseness, to the existing framework and to instead make the complete (if perhaps gradual) transition into this new, better, *viably* optimistic world. Looking forward to your additional “musings from the fiat mine” 🤝