Demurrage is certainly a step in the right direction, to discourage hoarding and, in the long term, to prevent wealth from being concentrated in a minority of backwards thinking money-mad homo sapiens. But right now the people behind it want a "federal reserve"-like institution, and that is a bad idea.

It is interesting to see that most people here embrace the technical aspects of bitcoin but still hang on to a capitalistic ideology. I think we can do better than that.