“Rand's heroes use roads they did not build, communicate through language they did not invent, and benefit from scientific discoveries they did not make. Yet somehow, in Rand's mythology, they owe nothing to the collective enterprises that made their individual achievements possible.”
This excerpt from nostr:nprofile1qqstjqpcx0atlun36puzuqctucdhasuvul295xu6s60mmv6tnckjqqqpr4mhxue69uhkummnw3ez6ur4vgh8wetvd3hhyer9wghxuet5qyshwumn8ghj7mn0wd68yttjv4kxz7fwwd3ksmnfw3ax2mpwwahhymry4zvrls last essay explains a lot of the discomfort I feel with an almost Darwinian view of economics and how bitcoin is sometimes viewed as the expression of it. I think it isn’t - all it is is money that treats everyone the same - and we have to figure out how to take advantage of it not only as individuals but as communities and society, to reinforce the commons not destroy them.