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Re: Technological unemployment is (almost) here
by
phelix
on 25/03/2014, 18:31:30 UTC
Libertarians and people more in favor of direct democracy share this goal.

IMHO everybody on the blockchain technological frontier has a moral responsibility to decentralize power.


De-centralized power is nice when we aren't under threat.

Climate Change won't be solved by de-centralization of power, and if our alien neighbours decide its time to inhabit earth and get rid of the indigenous population I have a strong feeling that mom and pop who have their own 3D printers so they can make guns and robots in their house won't be able to stand up against existential threats.

For now, de-centralization is nice because it makes each individual worth more. But in the event that we need to work as one and we are all de-centralized, we're going to be obliterated. Take look at the city states of Europe before the Romans conquered them, and then imagine what would have happened if the Roman Legion suddenly invaded a historical European Union.
Decentralized does not mean disconnected. Politicians usually are elected for less than five years. Because of this their time horizon is five years or less, they don't think further ahead. This is the main reason for public debt btw.
Reasonable people and especially parents have a much longer time horizon, they care more about the future. With a longer time horizon of say twenty, fifty years fighting/dealing with climate change and meteor threats becomes much more important so a decentralized but coordinated system might come to much more consequent decisions and actions instead of only talking.

OT: The alien threat is a bad example. We would be 100% at the mercy of any intelligence that makes it's way to us. They could destroy us with the blink of an eye before we even realized because their technology would be so far superior. Think of a modern army against Roman empire. The only thing we could hope for was that they/it would also have high moral standards. Maybe it's not so smart to send radio waves into all directions...