They think they're going to be feudal lords in this society.
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Yep, I sat in on many of those clubhouse conversations and it was cringeworthy. I didn’t speak much, but was a bit eye opening at the radical shift in discourse compared to when I first heard about Bitcoin in 2011.
There is an unfortunate connection that Brock highlighted about an hour ago. Many in this space are perfectly fine with authoritarians as long as they are able to get rich and ‘be left alone’. Beliefs strongly held with arguments that are clearly not well thought out.
The good news is, you can believe in bitcoin, nostr and the goodness of decentralized protocols, and not feel like you have to adopt kooky ideological positions!
You never know where the early adopters come from a new idea. For eg. someone created elastic rings (to replace gold rings) for people who go to the gym. But a lot of early adopters were pregnant women who loved the fact it was elastic due to swollen fingers. To become mainstream it has to go through an evolution.