Sorry to say, but the moral pleading of saving the world just doesn’t matter to the average human. Human psychology just is not selfless on a macro scale. You have to incentivize properly. #bitcoin provides those incentives. First they will fight it, later they will thank it.— Ryan Tang (@Ryz0n) March 21, 2021
I don't know about the biological determinism part but I do think that people do actually need to be incentivized to save the world. You do that by giving them a stake a real stake in society. You let them directly benefit from living in a society by letting it take care of them and provide for them and give them a connection. Bitcoin ain't it of course. If you had socialism or communism people would be way more motivated and interested in saving the world. But I think on some subconscious levels people recognize a hopeless battle and saving capitalism isn't worth it. The best you can do is tell people to save themselves, but that doesn't register because they're alive. Unless they're in specific mortal peril to their physical self, it's too abstract of an argument. It's not that people are stupid or can't expand their bubble of care, it's that many think it's their only option and they're too beat down to see it any other way. Of course some are in the business of people not thinking otherwise and it does keep them safe in their bunkers and behind guards so they think the system works.
I don’t like saying „people are too dumb“, but it’s kinda one way to put it.
We just don’t really understand it, like, we theoretically understand it, but we don’t really get it. You can explain to someone how bad the consequences of climate change will be, and they will understand it, but just because of how illogical we actually act as a species, they‘ll just move on with their lives.
Because it’s so far away in their minds, because it’s been talked to death and like, nothing‘s happened yet, right? (Wrong, but yknow)
It’s more or less willful ignorance. Maybe a mass panic media campaign could move the masses, but outside of that, people will just continue to pretend like nothing is happening.
I don't know about the biological determinism part but I do think that people do actually need to be incentivized to save the world. You do that by giving them a stake a real stake in society. You let them directly benefit from living in a society by letting it take care of them and provide for them and give them a connection. Bitcoin ain't it of course. If you had socialism or communism people would be way more motivated and interested in saving the world. But I think on some subconscious levels people recognize a hopeless battle and saving capitalism isn't worth it. The best you can do is tell people to save themselves, but that doesn't register because they're alive. Unless they're in specific mortal peril to their physical self, it's too abstract of an argument. It's not that people are stupid or can't expand their bubble of care, it's that many think it's their only option and they're too beat down to see it any other way. Of course some are in the business of people not thinking otherwise and it does keep them safe in their bunkers and behind guards so they think the system works.
People dont want to save the world when they dont own it.
I don’t like saying „people are too dumb“, but it’s kinda one way to put it.
We just don’t really understand it, like, we theoretically understand it, but we don’t really get it. You can explain to someone how bad the consequences of climate change will be, and they will understand it, but just because of how illogical we actually act as a species, they‘ll just move on with their lives.
Because it’s so far away in their minds, because it’s been talked to death and like, nothing‘s happened yet, right? (Wrong, but yknow)
It’s more or less willful ignorance. Maybe a mass panic media campaign could move the masses, but outside of that, people will just continue to pretend like nothing is happening.