Language holds a lot of human relationships back. I often wonder if the world will gravitate to one language over time on a bitcoin standard. It certainly seems that way in the sovereign individual. And my guess is that the language would be English, not because America is the strongest, but because programming languages use it. It seems like the most reasonable standard.
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I don't think we're going to converge on one language though.
The future is going to be way too local for that to happen, since I think big states are unsustainable and will collapse under their own weight.
The reason I think we could is because people will be traveling around to different jurisdictions that are competing for their bitcoin. So people will learn the language that is most recognized around the world.
Could very well be a language that links people, yep. It already is to a great extent hahaha
I'm a content writer by profession and English puts more sats into my wallet 😂
But there are billions like me who would keep interacting using our native tongues with other speakers of them. Like there are some languages which are integrated into people's lives and culture to such an extent that they won't ever die out. My language, Tamil, is one of them.
There seems to be a strong incentive to learn the most common, and closest thing we have to a universal language, as a form of communication. I’m sure there are fewer English speakers in your country’s previous generations than there are in your current generation and in the next generation. As long as that incentive remains, I think they will gravitate toward that language. Time will tell.
Depends on the region you're looking at. Big cities obviously have a lot of English speakers. And some states like mine, Tamilnadu, have a higher percentage of English speakers than the others. Generation-wise, yep. More now than before.
Anyways, the point I was trying to make in OP was that govt education sucks in informing people about natural rights, constitutional rights, liberties and the legal system. Because the medium of instruction in govt schools are not in English.
Either the legal, administrative and judicial system ought to switch to local languages. Or public education ought to switch to English.
I'd rather have the languages switched *and* have the education system completely privatised and deregulated both at the same time.
The government is incentivized to keeping the population ignorant so it makes sense they’d do it that way. I’d like everything to be privatized but I’m just an extremist 😂
And reg tendency to gravitate towards a single langauge:
Depends on what area of life we look at.
Cultural areas like music, news, media, religion, movies, art, literature will always be local languages no matter how much one tries to change it.
Professional, economic and business requirements may require people to learn English, Bengali, Urdu, Hindi, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, etc. depending on who the person is economically interacting with.
Legally and politically, yeah. There could be a tendency for one universal language to emerge. English has by far the best chance at getting there because of the advancements and scholarship that has been made using this language.