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To imply that every human interaction is a value transaction is to reduce the human experience to a spreadsheet.

#blockchain

Luka Prinčič hat dies geteilt.

Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan

They are far from new, but I wonder if you had already stumbled on these essays, notably the one on Bitcoin:
https://gegen-kapital-und-nation.org/en/furball-00-hacktivism/
Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan

@Aral Balkan I agree. But since the 80ies the human experience is reduced to a spreadsheet thanks to Nobel prize winner John Nash and other economists who made the idea of rational choice so acceptable.
Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan

Our brains are kind of a soficiticated computer. So making parallels to software like spreadsheets to explain how we make decisions has its merits.

You should read "Human Action" by Mises. It would illustrate why every monetary transaction is a value transaction.
"The Virtue of selfishness" by Ayan Rand would explain exactly why every transaction is a value transaction AND a moral decision.
Als Antwort auf Kramer Peace

Our brains are nothing like computers. Memory is perpetually reconstructed, there’s no central processing unit, no hard disk, no keyboard, no network connectivity, what are you talking about?

And Ayn Rand was wrong about pretty much everything. 🗑
Als Antwort auf Hypolite Petovan

@Hypolite Petovan @Aral Balkan @Kramer Peace Couldn't agree more with you @Hypolite Petovan. Of course one can compare a brain with a computer, but it says so much about how one thinks that brains and computers are and so little about computers and brains.
Adam Curtis has illustrated in his documentary "All watched over by machines of loving kindness" the catastrophic consequences of Randian ideas and it's political successor Californian ideology.
Als Antwort auf Torsten

This is new to me. what exactly is this Californian ideolgy that you talk about that is the political successor to Objectivism?
Als Antwort auf Torsten

From wikipedia, about Californian Ideology:
This ideology mixed New Left and New Right beliefs together based on their shared interest in anti-statism, the counterculture of the 1960s, and techno-utopianism.

In other words: It has nothing to do with Objectivism.
Als Antwort auf Hypolite Petovan

Actually, you are the one wrong about pretty much everything... 😂
Als Antwort auf Kramer Peace

Ah, Ayn Rand… that bastion of humanity. Say no more…
Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan

You are being cynical, but you are correct. She is a bastion of humanity.
Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan

to be honest I cannot imagine another futuristic way to solve enequality. We are already measuring advantages and disadvantages of people and try to equalize the system based on the “data”. Think of gevernmental supports or progressive income taxes. But we still have loads of enequality, not only because we don’t agree on common morals but also don’t have a sophisticated way to measure all the complexities of enequality.
Als Antwort auf Ξdgar

There still are loads of inequality because people who take country-level decisions are fine with it, nothing more. We aren’t lacking tools, we’re lacking the will.
Als Antwort auf Aral Balkan

isn't that what every executive thinks of the entry-level employees already?