> but government can monitor and control all of the transactions that take place to ensure that no illegal activity arises.
I don't mean any disrespect when I say this, but when I read comments like, after the initial shock subsides, there is always a realization that we all have such widely varying and disconnected worldviews that I simply don't understand how mass governance could every work without eventually succumbing to violent conflict... Not trying to make any comment on the underlying merit of either worldview, just that it's like we live in completely different realities... It's very depressing, to be completely honest.
The saving grace to human society's have been the ability to rebel against a despotic government. Recently, within the last generation or two, we've lost that ability. Government is an amorphous entity that will always attempt to gain more power and more control. Separating the government from financial and economic power might be a hurdle that a technologically advanced society must overcome in order to prosper and not devolve into some 1984 distopia. Crypto might be our saving grace as opposed to our evil overlord that the article claims it to be.
I don't mean any disrespect when I say this, but when I read comments like, after the initial shock subsides, there is always a realization that we all have such widely varying and disconnected worldviews that I simply don't understand how mass governance could every work without eventually succumbing to violent conflict... Not trying to make any comment on the underlying merit of either worldview, just that it's like we live in completely different realities... It's very depressing, to be completely honest.