RE: Not My Meme! #1109
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Much like in the real world, those with power will need to voluntarily surrender it.
Luckily, I don't think our whales have had to kill anybody to get their power like their counterparts did irl, so maybe it could happen.
In the real world, not so much.
The only way to get people out that killed to get into power is to kill them, they've already demonstrated their limit is their life.
If your limit isn't taking their's, then they win, again.
And, they get to laugh at you like the 'lil bitch that you are.
Then they will rape your kids and grind their bodies into hamburger so they can sell it to the dupes as the 'heart healthy' alternative.
So, in the grand scheme of things, we got bigger problems than what some devs scheme up.
Could they have solved governance problems with this model?
Clearly not.
Could a different crowd do it?
Probably.
Will they?
Not without a proper leader to take point.
Ned could have walked among us as a god, but he wasn't mature enough to recognize that fact and was so spoiled by an easy life that he thought bringing a guitar to business meeting with his friend that looked like warmed over death would fly because he obviously could do no wrong.
You were here for that, weren't you?
I'd rather have leaders of communities with decentralized control by those communities of rewards. I recall having intense discussions about that prior to Ned's Hair taking the money and going home. Ned was under immense pressure from the whales, and sold rather than using his potential power to defeat them. Dan didn't do us any favors by leaving either. My take is that they just wanted money, so when the going got tough and principles were at issue, they took money and threw the community - and humanity - to the wolves.
Proper leadership could have restrained whale votes, prevented bidbots, and adapted the platform as each problem revealed weaknesses in the platform and the code. The Founder's stake was nominal to enable them to make what they wanted to happen come to pass, but we have not had proper leadership. The claim is we are decentralized, but that isn't true either. We are milked by profiteers, not led by leaders.
I don't believe in 'a leader'. They're all profiteers. I'm just happy Soros or Gates hasn't a hankering to wreck Hive, yet. I can't even imagine what the reaction of Valueplan to US boots on the ground in Venezuela will be, but I am sure there will be panic (unless they're spooks, in which case there won't be a problem, and maybe BT will be up for a Nobel Peace prize next year?)
I am a bit cynical.
Dan started saying some crazy things after he left, got lost in his religion, or something.
Eos was the cash grab.
This is clearly the case.
Otherwise, we wouldn't have alienated all those 'influencers', intentionally.
At this point, I am cynical, too.
10 years of doldrums will do that to a project.
Maybe tomorrow is the day,...