Not always. There are many living examples of people who did nothing but spend wealth
Addition to my article on the site, arguing against libertarian views:
Historical examples of resources that were once scarce but are now abundant include: clean drinking water, bananas, electricity, spices, salt, coffee, chocolate, wheat, sugar, fabric, light, paper, soap, book printing, ice, and refrigeration.
Wow this is so cool! I consider moving to Liberland. I currently work for guys from Tuscany, so I seriously consider moving a bit to the south.
What do you code in? Feel free to share if you are doing something cool at work, or privately.
The scarcity position doesn’t really make sense, tho resources are scarce, because matter is finite
Currently C++/Qt, and I work on devices for ophthalmology. But been also recently on Flutter commercial projects. But I’m familiar with other techs and can work on anything of course if needed, kinda ninja…
Cool. In this space, I used WxWidgets. That was also a long time ago. Check out my stuff: https://borisreitman.com/portfolio
I reinvented Diffie-Hellman protocol for some college project. Was super disappointed when I learned it was discovered in 70s ;)
I am impressed. Curious what you think about my Crosspass whitepaper.
The point is that they spend the wealth, they don’t maintain it or increase it. So there’s a natural time limit built-in.
An important lesson I learned from reading memours of Chaim Weizmann, is that he was always one foot in his science (profession), and one foot in the political, ideological enterprize (zionism). These two aspects reinforced each other. Because he was impressive professionally, but didn’t have any political credentials, people of political import (such as George Lloyd) still agreed to talk to him, and take him seriosly.
Likewise, we should use our IT experience to help with the political initiative, as much as we can. Justin Sun and Vitalik Buterin are good modern examples of this. Elon Musk too. (I don’t mean to imply that I support their politics.)
A computer programmer (IT man) is at the same time: a theoretician, a doer, and a child at heart (still believing in benevolence).
Ok I probably miss something 🍻, but why don’t you just send Alice’s public key to Bob and Bob can encrypt and do whatever. Seems at first glance like sending pin and lookup code is a fragile point.
Because a public key is long, about ~50 alphanumeric characters, it has to be transferred via software, not by just hearing it on the phone, or typing it in by looking at it. This increases opportunites for phishing. It’s also confusing. People are now trained to type in short 6-digit verification codes. Feel free to PM me, if you want to discuss it further.
Ok I see.