Quote from: katlogic on October 21, 2014, 11:02:27 PM

Quote from: bluemeanie1 on October 21, 2014, 10:32:04 PM

It's mostly impossible to measure. You can't just use accounts because one person may be holding many accounts. To measure GINI you need a reliable way to measure WHO owns which accounts.

I used the stats zhoutong published. I wonder if some wallet/exchange published more recent numbers since then.

Quote from: bluemeanie1 on October 21, 2014, 10:32:04 PM

commonly, the "libertarians" are highly privileged white American males who really have no clue how good they have it. They take America and civilization for granted. As you say, it's not hard to live the libertarian dream in Mogadishu.

To be fair, kleptocracy (Eastern europe here

is just failure of (cultural) morals. To me, when someone says "neocon/neoliberal", I imagine ruthless robber baron capitalist who truly believes that market is end-all solution to everything, ethics be damned. Surprisingly, significant amount of those "white straight male reddit fedora libertarians who love to shoot guns" appear to not discard basic human decency in their dogma. However truly free markets are in contradiction with that - cheating someone burdened with something silly as "morals" is very effective competetive edge after all.

mostly, it's a philosophy that lives entirely on the Internet. You'll find it's greatest outspoken proponents are anons on twitter or random forums like this. Few people would confess such beliefs to their mother, that's for sure. It's a sort of attitude that builds up over time. I think a lot of these people, especially on here dont really transition their psychological state from playing violent video games to interacting on these forums. They say and do things they would never dream of in 'real life'. Sometimes I even think Ulbricht lost touch with reality at some point. People have said he spent all day on his laptop and never spoke with anyone.

If you get to know any of these cryptokids on here, it's a pretty typical profile. Young, no social life, loves video games, marginally employed, etc. They encounter another player-character in the forum video game that angers them, the solution is throw a grenade or fire rocket launchers. They just don't understand that theyre in public and they're accountable for their actions.

You've also got a class of people, typically from Eastern Europe/Soviet rim regions who are paid trolls. There is practically no laws against internet abuses so they know they can do what they please- you'll find a lot of the really odious trolls seems to emanate from the Transnistria region.