If someone popped up asking if the software could safely hold up his aquarium without bending or cracking, there isn't much that can be said by way of direct reply.
Such was his analogy. He is deeply confused. It is neither defensive nor tangential to point that out.
Tangential in that it doesn't address his point, rather ones own. Defensive in responding with mutual and valueless memes...
We might not all agree, but we do all understand the point he was making.
There was no point to address. Bitcoin is not bread. The sustaining power of a loaf of bread is fixed, and dividing it up doesn't change the sum....
Value is not a thing that exists outside of our minds. We aren't embedding some of it into our money. We are measuring it, like we measure temperature or distance, ....
Folks, we shouldn't be so dismissive...
For thousands of years people where deeply believing that value
is substantial.Let's be honest: even today, a grand majority of all humans still share this belief. The modern age has barely scratched the surface. People might surrender "pro forma", they might just talk as they where tought in school, but if you look carefully, there is a very far spread deep belief regarding a substance of value, assuming a fixed coordinate system of good and bad (and especially evil is perceived as being substantial!) and that "somehow" (be it remote, mystical) there is a fixed benevolent master plan.
Only a small elite of educated people has really grasped relativity and attained a scientific thinking style.
We shouldn't forget that, since to
all the others, analogies as brought forth by the OP sound "somehow plausible" and "seem to ring true". And all the arguments of the world won't help a shit against deep believes.