Re:Regulating Crypto: How we move forward as an industry fro...
by danaris on Wednesday December 21, 2022 @08:29AM
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> The problem in reality would be non existent if people used crypto currencies for what they were meant to be used for
In other words, "if people would stop exercising their free will and acting in ways that may benefit them, but are detrimental to my idea/this system/society/etc, everything would be fine!"
As the admin and main developer of a small browser-based game, this is a hard lesson I've had to learn over the past several years: We don't get to define how people act and think. When we build systems, we must take into account how people will actually try to use them...and if we find that they're using them in ways that are detrimental to the structure as a whole, we need to rethink our systems.
In other words, "if people would stop exercising their free will and acting in ways that may benefit them, but are detrimental to my idea/this system/society/etc, everything would be fine!"
As the admin and main developer of a small browser-based game, this is a hard lesson I've had to learn over the past several years: We don't get to define how people act and think. When we build systems, we must take into account how people will actually try to use them...and if we find that they're using them in ways that are detrimental to the structure as a whole, we need to rethink our systems.