Quote from: ErisDiscordia on March 03, 2015, 10:11:22 AM

Quote from: oda.krell on March 03, 2015, 09:52:16 AM

Quote from: ErisDiscordia on March 03, 2015, 09:49:34 AM

Quote from: oda.krell on March 03, 2015, 09:06:10 AM

Counter question: "Why do most people (mostly) trust their governments?"

Now that is a question worth asking!

Well, I'm aware a lot of people in here give a different answer to that question than I do Cheesy

Was what you said earlier about it your full answer? I am interested in your thoughts about this.

I don't think I have a full answer. I don't think people can ever fully trust their governments, but a) not all governments (more generally: institutions of a society) are equal, i.e. there are "better" governments (and government forms) than others, and b) I don't think the absence, or almost total reduction of government would be an improvement either.

A government is just a set of rules society (sort of) agreed upon a long time ago, and then just trudges along that rule set, election to election, complaining increasingly more until: boom. revolution Cheesy

Seriously though, I see crypto as another method of citizens to control the influence the government can wield *if and when* they collectively disagree with the direction the government is taking.

That's all. If the majority of the people is still more or less in favor of, say, social welfare (and I think the majority is, in many countries), then crypto won't change that. But it *does* for example allow people to "route around" certain arbitrary restrictions placed by the government that many don't agree with, or disagree with once they become aware of it. Is see the similarity here to copyright vs. widespread "pirating" of copyrighted material: there is a very clear, very widely held idea that it's not "stealing" to download a movie, many people do it, and they *can* do it, even though the law says they aren't allowed to. Eventually, the law will likely change, because the facts of what people are actually doing have changed.