In response to #[0]'s post on the history of maximalism.

"Balanced" takes like this stem from a failure to appreciate the extent to which fiat damages the world and just how much upside there is to a Bitcoin world.

It is a form of capitulating, and it is very obvious that many bitcoiners are only in it for sovereignty and consumer purchasing power, which are fine and dandy — I certainly understand there is a hierarchy of needs, but the emergent systems built from freely cooperating individuals is where a sound economic calculus comes into play, and some people recognize the greatness that is coming, and thereby feel an adequate level of visceral repulsion to the degeneracy they are engulfed by.