Inefficiency Is A Good Thing
Efficiency has gotten us to where we are today.
It's become very clear that we don't need more of the same.
In Oregon it is illegal to pump your own gas because that's how badly the state needs jobs. By increasing efficiency in a centralized manner, the people in charge refuse to share their wealth with the less fortunate. Tell those freeloaders to get a job, amirite?
Wrong
There are no jobs left, so the government creates jobs that shouldn't exist. These jobs get paid peanuts because they should have been phased out forever. However, they can't be phased out because distribution of resources in abysmal under the current regime.
Distribution
We can provide food, water, shelter, and healthcare to everyone on the planet, but we choose not to. You know there is a problem when restaurants are throwing away food by the dumpster-full while people are starving on the streets. You know there is a problem when we pay farmers not to grow food because supply would flood the market and crash the price. You know there is a problem when you get sick and the only treatments offered are ones that are extremely overpriced. You know there is a problem when kids come home from school and all they learned was how to be dependent on the system.
GMO
Modifying the genetics of plants is not a bad thing. It is the corporations and motivations behind them that we shouldn't trust. Being able to modify biological code an amazing advancement that could change the world. Imagine if we created a plant that that turned sunlight into raw electricity.
Solar panels that you can grow? Yeah, sign me up. Is it really such a stretch? Plants are already doing this, they just use the energy for other purposes. Now, let's count all the ways why stuff like this isn't happening.
Who in their right mind would ever want to pump billions into R&D for a project that can't be monetized? There are thousands of technologies out there like this that would benefit the entire planet, but because they are too easy to steal and too hard to profit from they never happen. No one wants to give the world free energy; especially not Big Oil, who makes their living enslaving the planet through petroleum dependence and warfare.
Crypto
It's only a matter of time before a GMO coin surfaces and starts doing open-source research and development. All of the limitations of, "Can we centrally control this project to profit from it," goes away. Anything with value will be created regardless of business model.
Jobs
Back to the point of this post, inefficiency is exactly what we need. The government already knows this and shows it by creating redundant jobs that shouldn't exist. However, with crypto, the jobs absolutely must exist.
Imagine trying to decentralize food production. You lose all the efficiency of having a huge centralized farm. The same thing is true for decentralizing software development, government, construction, etc. This movement is going to require a lot more people working on it initially, providing jobs for all the citizens that have been displaced by centralized efficiency.
However, we must assume that the decentralized movement quickly begins automating itself. This automation will displace jobs once again. However, this time around the resources produced by said automation will be actually be distributed fairly to the community instead of directly to the top of the pyramid (UBI?). This will give a very generous buffer to citizens looking for a new job or simply looking to retire early. Redundancy will be eliminated without hurting the working class using superior systems of decentralized distribution.
Quality
Decentralization increases quality. Smaller operations produce better products and cut less corners. This is especially true considering this movement will allow people to work where they want to work, when they want to work, without a boss breathing down their neck. The value of morale in the workplace can not be understated.
Artificial Scarcity
With decentralization comes a free market untethered by the restrictions and regulations of the traditional economy. When no one is in charge there is no one to sue, no one to jail, and no one to shut down. Crypto will regulate itself, citizens will opt in to the governance that suits them the best. Products can not become artificially scarce because there will always be a community willing to undercut an unfair market. The only artificially scarce assets remaining will be crypto itself by design.
Robust systems on a local scale
Just recently there was an Outbreak of E. coli Infections Linked to Romaine Lettuce. Hundreds of businesses were effected. Things like this can't happen when production is decentralized. Not only does a smaller operation have a lower chance of having an outbreak caused by cutting corners for a profit, but also each outbreak will be contained to a small subsection of the overall grid. It's like building the Titanic, except this time it actually is unsinkable.
In addition, many more products will be available locally, meaning the cost of transportation goes down, and the number of jobs available in an area increases.
Community Representation
How many communities out there have no representation in the cryptoshpere? Pretty much all of them. Pick any project be it Bitcoin, Ethereum, EOS, Steem, Binance, Golem, etc. These are all new communities that were formed around the crypto. There are no cryptocurrencies out there yet that are targeting already established communities.
What happens when someone creates a coin that gets airdropped onto particular minorities in a certain region? What happens when crypto gets airdropped on all citizens of a country or all employees of a corporation? There is a completely untapped gold mine out there that is smart-money, and we are sitting on the < 1% line.
Conclusion
Smart money is here, and the smarter it gets the more everyone on the planet benefits. Fiat is like a very reliable desktop calculator; boring but sometimes useful given the context. Crypto is like a smart phone with no apps on it; pointless for the average user but brimming with potential.
Variables like centralized automation combined with the next financial crisis are going to make good hardworking people incredibly desperate. They will be pushed into the cryptosphere with open arms. These people will be willing to work very hard for little pay. At first, life will be very difficult, but after a while the fruits of that labor will pay off. Inefficiency will be converted into trust, and trust will be far more valuable than anything the current establishment has to offer.
Today, in The US, we have about 3% of the people growing all the food.
And, at any time, this centralized conglomerate could break down. Starvation everywhere. (and the network is so complex, that a break down is inevitable.)
BUT! With modern farming practices, such as no-till farming, composting bins, automatic watering (and there are now robots who will weed and plant) each person could farm their own produce with less than 10 hours per week.
Of course this is less efficient, however the reliability goes way up. As well as the nutrition, taste, quality and self satisfaction.
Aquaponics can even provide fish as well.
Soon, we will add manufacturing and power creation to the local community level.
And i am glad, because i hate the throw away economy.
When all i need is a plastic gasket, to make the coffee maker work, i should ask my 3D printer to get the file and make one. Today, you just throw away the whole coffee maker for lack of a 1¢ part.
This "efficiency" (planned obsolescence) i can do without.
Everyone should start using their garden for growing food! Start learning how to grow food. How to be self suffcient. This would giva back a lot of power to the people.
They even put padlocks on the dumpsters to make sure no hungry or homeless person can get to the food they throw out.
The only part I see missing in your outline is the one that has been the story of man since the beginning. The one where those who would have it all get small armies together and invade/terrorize the rest into compliance as they make sure most have the bare minimum or less.
If crypto gets tot he point where it begins to actually threaten their stranglehold, they will clamp down. I believe they already know everything we do online, recording every move. They have many convinced it is convenient to have smart devices in our homes recording what we say, logging when doors are locked. Cameras spying even inside homes through security systems. I suspect that within a few years it will be mandatory for all homes to have these smart (spying) devices in their homes. To not will mean you must be a criminal, and many of your neighbors will agree, saying shit like if you had nothing to hide you wouldn't mind.
They will not cede the controls they tighten daily at an accelerating pace unless something changes drastically in enough people willing to say no. In ways that those who would do the bidding are fearful to help these sick greedy people do anymore clamping.
The hope I see many like yourself having in crypto is to combat the problems I outline above. And unfortunately at this point in time we are using their tools to utilize it.
It is quite convenient to use the old infrastructure as a bootstrap into the new world. The more progress we make, the easier it will be to go back and remove those centralized bottlenecks (like exchanges, ISPs, and elite block producers).
It's hard to say just how much the establishment will lash out as a response. Is the system so top-heavy and broken that it doesn't have the momentum to crack down? Or will we see some next level police state action? It's hard to say. Probably somewhere in the middle.
I get so aggressive when someone is saying that. This destroys my peace.
I totally agree with you.
USA health-care system is flawed, in my country health-care is "free" i put it between "" because we pay taxes for that... Which I really don't know if it is a good solution since we are all playing to help some people that are sick because of their own mistakes (diabetes in morbidly obese people, cancer in steroid users, etc..."
Thank god I had a father and brother that told me to always do my own research, and always think with my own head... Many of the ones that didn't get this tipe of education are now cogs in the machine, or sheep, I would rather be the wolf, or be the one controlling the machine...
This is why I love Elon Musk and all his projects, most of his companies aren't making much profit if at all, he has to spend $ from his own pocket, but in the end if he succedes he advances making by that much, because he is more concerned with the future of manking than with the future of his bank account! Just look at Tesla, SpaceX, NeuroLink, SolarCity, most of them are doing amazing things and aren't making that much money!
Decentralization will be a powerhouse some years down the line, but like the dotcom age we first need a shift of "way of thinking", we need progress, and we need lots and lots of education... I see the true revolution starting somewhere around 2025, that's when the snowball starts going down the hill and we start growing like crazy!
Hope everything is going great @edicted, I've been busy learning other things just came back and restarted posting :)
I think it depends on the community. Here we have some major grocers who work with food banks and churches to distribute food items to the needy that they don't sell and the product is still good to give away. They also work with farmers who will donate rather then throw away over stock or non premium products (like small potatoes as an example) they don't sell to vendors.
Our county here also works with area hospitals for no cost or scale to pay fees for low income individuals, the county sets up the clinics and the hospitals staff them, it works rather well and helps keep the pressure off of so many people using emergency room visits for minor things such as colds.
I agree there are energy alternatives out there that may not work on a massive scale yet but could be developed for smaller communities to cut back on the amount of green house gases, every step helps but as you stated it's greed and the dependence upon the jobs the current energy field provides. I don't think we will ever get away from fossil fuels until every last drop is drained from the earth or the earth no longer is habitable but this crap of trying to sell a green house tax to fix the problem when there's already many, many other avenues to go down first is absurd. Let big energy pay for it, they already tax the little guy way to much.
As far as decentralization goes one only has to look at this platform to see the failures, it's run no differently then any other corporation, all the money is at the top and they make it near impossible for others to rise above poverty level on here.
Are you in Oregon? I just assumed you were in Washington state. I'm about 40 minutes outside of Portland. I thought Oregon's gas pumping laws were because a mayor freaked out when his son exploded himself while smoking and pumping, and the government hasn't trusted the people to pump their own gas yet.... I just assumed it thought everyone was too dumb, but maybe you're right... it makes a lot more sense. I wonder if gas is more expensive here... I mean, it definitely should be, which is probably why I've started noticing every 3rd car is a Tesla now. It would be amazing if Oregon made it illegal to pump your own gas, to create jobs, which in turn caused everyone to turn to EVs.
Love these two bold lines at the end!
I lived in portland for about 5 years. Even worked at PDX airport for 6 months. They have every one of my finger prints on file. Digital and on paper.
Im back in California now near the bay area.
My approach is to diversify for any potential shifts as to what can happen. It is almost certain that nothing changes in the short term but when it does it will be abrupt and unexpected!
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I just heard an interview from a guy:
And now I see in Blockchain and following technologies a possibility to start a new structured and active exchange of ideas. ;) P-o-B?
At the same time open-source provides possibilities for everyone.
There are many very talented hackers from developing countries.
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What, really? That's unbelievable.
We don't know. I think genetically modifying something can be really dangerous. They just introduce it without knowing what it really does to our eco system. (LONG-TERM).
Very true. Free Energy already exists but the big Oil companies suppress it.
Another unique and creative post.
Thanks