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Re:Telegram Isn't for Sale by ekianjo on Tuesday December 12, 2017 @06:09PM (#15910367)
We already know that b) is not going to work in practice, because of the population curve. So, there's that. Why should you pay for something you will never get yourself?
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Re:Telegram Isn't for Sale by Vinnl on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @03:24AM (#15912863)
Because of a), and because we don't have an alternative for b) yet, but whatever we might come up with might be bootstrapped with these payments.
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Re:Telegram Isn't for Sale by thriftwy on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @02:01PM (#15916543)
How can we bootstrap anything with those payments, where they all go to the retired already? Can't spend same payments twice. And the balance isn't becoming better here.
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Re:Telegram Isn't for Sale by Vinnl on Wednesday December 13, 2017 @04:24PM (#15917807)
They don't all go to the retired (at least, not where I'm from). A lot of it is reinvested in order to save for future retirements.

But yes, the bootstrapping is still an interesting problem.

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