perhaps I focused a little heavily on the semantics of a particular word which it looks like most of you have some inflexible opinions on

. We can agree to disagree on that.
I remain unconvinced that BTC offers a significant improvement to our current systems... I don't think a rise in FREEDOM will necessarily occur with bitcoin. The rich will still be able to play the system to their advantage.
"Distributed" sounds awfully nice and egalitarian until you look at how wealth would really be concentrated: Disproportionately in the hands of the early adopters (aka the current bitcoin community). Great for you guys. Again, this project seems now to be motivated mainly by greed rather than any desire to change society.
Frankly I think I'd rather be ruled by my current [$]rich white corporate masters than a bunch of
BTCrich white libertarian nerds, you people have some hella dumb ideas