I guess it is just that dumb manly militancy I have built in me.
When I was a kid, A forest fire almost came and destroyed our house, And we had to evacuate the area and pick in a few hours what stuff to take and what stuff to leave. I think this has both A: primed me for taking my emotions out of traumatic or high stress situations, And B: made me realise how much I need in the immediate moment when you go from being comfortable to just living day to day.
A lot of my early solo travel was just a backpack, And I often found myself stuck in a foreign country without money until the next monthly payment, Which in my opinion is the best way to travel. You should not make yourself a burden to locals, But you should also not expect to always see the truth of a place when you pay to be there. What you pay for is to avoid the real work that goes into living in a place and it takes about 6 months being somewhere before anyone can understand the hard work that makes somewhere special.
Yeah, I blame it on my dumb masculine traits. I can pretty much pass out in an airport or a strange place as long as I know I won’t get killed.
Attractive women always need some experience prostituting themselves before they get to stay at home status. You need to be good enough at manipulating men into paying your bills before you can stop working completely. That’s why so many “lesbians” are actually just living with each other while they entertain relationships with sugar daddies. Reeling in a big one takes years.
What about the stupid people who can’t use a cell phone to access banking. I wish there was a nicer way to say it but really about half the world has no access to technology and/or a credit card, Let alone an ecash wallet. You are designing something aimed at bankers.
No really, People with money are too consumed by convenience to use anything not built for them, And people without money have a lot of catching up to do just to make it to consumerism. Cashu and enuts are great financial technologies, But even rich people are too dumb to use them.
Nowhere here did I say it is not worth building. It takes ten years to source an oil well, And 100 years to empty it. Cars are about 150 years old. I am simply looking at the advance of technology from both sides, The haves and the people who benefit most from technology, The have nots. It is easier to convince rich people to live poorer than it is to convince poor people to continue living poor. There is just a few elements missing from connecting the unbanked with the modern world, And I feel like we should be designing these products with this in mind.
I suggest you spend some time in a place without internet or smartphones to get an idea of the challenges around introducing these concepts to people without these modern solutions.
There are places in the world where people still use natural resources more than fiat currencies to transact. In Sub-Saharan Africa a grandmother will grow a crop of tomatoes to trade for two chickens and 40kg of rice. She will earn 1.50$ per day otherwise. It would be great for her to use e-cash to make those transactions, But a 100$ smartphone is a serious investment for an elderly woman who relies on her 8 grandchildren to help her along in life. I am just stating it is worth doing some market research to find real world use cases.
No. I am arguing that ecash fits a niche group of people technologically adept enough to use ecash effectively. Not that it is not worth developing, That it has an extremely small market fit.
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This is the guy to talk with about Kolwesii. He has Congolese workers who can help the locals negotiate with the Chinese. This will include the Kolwesii government officials.
At this point they realize they are actually too dumb to understand what I am saying. It’s more like a rebellious teenager hiding in their room after I found their cigarettes and porn.
In Virunga Park, I am sure you know, There is a bitcoin mine. These miners are the Congolese workers who can free the child laborers of the Kolwesii coltan mining trade from generational poverty. If the Chinese source corporations pay for coltan in tether, And the locals can trade against bitcoin there is a chance for them to build generational wealth. Yes these people need access to technology, Electricity, And the internet, But think of the children.
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