Re:Against Overuse of the Gini Coefficient
by arcticbull on Friday July 30, 2021 @11:38AM
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> I work for a bank. Applying your analysis, one could argue that banks offer zero intrinsic value. After all, all they allow you to do is to move money around back and forth between different people.
What I meant was that it's the bank shares that capture the value you describe, not dollars. And because the bank does create the value you describe, the shareholders of that bank are rewarded by and increase in shareholder equity value.
There's no reason for the intrinsic value of dollars to go up because banks exist beyond their value increase attributable to a growth in GDP as a result.
The role you describe here maps to miners, which are in fact the third party that in aggregate facilitates bitcoin transactions. They are rewarded via block rewards for this service which similarly increases their shareholder equity. Bitcoin doesn't enable people to move bitcoins between wallets, miners do. Bitcoin basically unbundles the services banks provide, but it doesn't internalize them or capture the value they create.
What I meant was that it's the bank shares that capture the value you describe, not dollars. And because the bank does create the value you describe, the shareholders of that bank are rewarded by and increase in shareholder equity value.
There's no reason for the intrinsic value of dollars to go up because banks exist beyond their value increase attributable to a growth in GDP as a result.
The role you describe here maps to miners, which are in fact the third party that in aggregate facilitates bitcoin transactions. They are rewarded via block rewards for this service which similarly increases their shareholder equity. Bitcoin doesn't enable people to move bitcoins between wallets, miners do. Bitcoin basically unbundles the services banks provide, but it doesn't internalize them or capture the value they create.