RE: Cryptocurrency is Communist: The Brainwash Effect.

Former inhabitant of a communist country here, up until I was 19. After that, the country collapsed and entered a savage so called "capitalism" era. 30 years after it's still confused and not a very good place to live in.

From this personal experience, I would like to throw my 2 cents at your - extremely - long post.

Theoretically, many things are interesting. But once we put them in practice, they're not so interesting anymore. And you do seem to hint at that when you recognize that communism failed. The thing that stayed in the way of a theoretically interesting model is human nature. We are driven by greed and fear (some will say we are actually driven by our attachment to those) and no system can change that. It may, at most, incentivize one of them to create predictability.

All communist systems failed not because the theory was wrong. But because people applied it from their own frail structure, from greed and fear. In my personal example, about 21.5 million people lived in poverty, while about 0.4 million (the "nomenclature", the "aparatchiki", people that we part of the system at the top) lived very well. Where do you see equality here? And a fair distribution of resources?

Equality is a myth. A human concept related to dimensions, that we try to apply to an ever changing ecosystem. How can something be equal with something when everything is in motion? It's a utopia.

Humans will always want more, they would want to differentiate somehow from the others, being it by greed, or by ascetism, because of this attachment-based structure. So all systems that try to "solve this problem" are going to fail.

Crypto is a system based on a few components that have greater transparency and predictability. The computer, the internet, cryptography. But they aren't about equal distribution. Ask any whale about that. They increase predictability and make the turning of the knobs more granular. But at the end of the day, it's the human nature that's in charge.

From my perspective, coming from a communist country, I don't see crypto as communist. There's zero resemblance to that. If anything, crypto is a place of possibility. Of potential. If you educate yourself, you fire up that potential, you get to receive higher transparency and predictability in certain areas. That's all.

Behind the private keys are still humans. Frail, and emotionally unstable, and changing, getting old, attaching to various beliefs and so on and so forth. Fixing people with tech didn't work before and it will never work. Fixing people by making them understand we live in a self-controlled hallucination, well, that might lead to something good, but it requires a lot of work. Thousands of years have passed since we first realized that, and not much progress have been done.

At the end, just a polite reminder that it's easy to be a communist in a free country. Not so easy the other way around.

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