Does Bitcoin’s nature as a "self-regulating platform" solve the problem of human greed, or does it simply automate it?
I’ve been thinking about the systemic design of Bitcoin and comparing it to the socioeconomic experiment in the movie The Platform (El Hoyo).
In the movie, a "self-regulating" system is designed to provide enough resources for everyone, but it ultimately fails because it doesn't account for human greed—those at the top consume everything, leaving nothing for those below.
Bitcoin is also a self-regulating platform, governed by code rather than human authority. However, I’m curious about your perspective:
Does the decentralization and fixed nature of the Bitcoin protocol successfully mitigate human greed, or does it merely provide a new, automated "platform" where the same old patterns of accumulation and inequality persist?
Can a protocol alone ever truly solve the social problem of greed, or is that strictly a human issue that technology cannot touch?
I’m interested in hearing your thoughts on whether Bitcoin is just a technical solution to a social problem that requires a human solution.
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