You’ve probably heard the phrase the path of least resistance. It’s a saying that can have different meanings. For example, it might be used in reference to people who like to take the easiest option, who avoid struggle and conflict. This can be interpreted as laziness or complacency.
But the path of least resistance could also be interpreted as a way to avoid wasting effort fighting unnecessary battles, or choosing simplicity over needless complexity, which can be interpreted as wise and efficient.
Either way, whether it’s due to laziness, or wisdom, I believe most of us tend to choose the path of least resistance. Of course that isn’t to say all of us, and there are also certainly degrees to how hard one is willing to work, or how lazy we want to be, so we need a way to help us decide how much resistance we’re willing to take on.
How?
With money. Money serves as the incentive mechanism to make us do things that we find hard. We work, to make money, to afford to live the way we want to live. In turn, our work produces value for others, who pay for that value with the money they’ve earned from their work, and so on.
Money is literally what makes the world go around. It helps us coordinate as a society, to build things people want and need more of in the world. Money isn’t evil, money is a tool. But lately that tool seems to be becoming more and more corrupted, more unsound.
Politicians get rich, pharmaceutical companies get rich, defense companies get rich, while people suffer. Instead of our money being used to help us produce more of what we value in the world, our money is all too often used to fund things like wars, disease, and injustice.
I believe Bitcoin was created to fix our money again, because money is too important not to fix. But rather than doing the hard work of scaling Bitcoin so it can be used as money for the world, its so-called leaders have for a long time chosen the path of least resistance.
They choose to keep the block size limit at 1 MB, to not introduce new op codes, or make any other significant changes to the code, while marketing the hell out of it as digital gold, not digital cash.
So was this strategy successful?
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