Racism, that’s the word you’re looking for! So well implemented that the victims keep it going without any influence from the group that “has the right” to just call itself American without any prefix.

That’s just being part of a minority no matter where you live. White Americans don’t all celebrate the same things and don’t all talk the same way, with some of them being nigh impossible to understand if you weren’t raised around people who speak like them, yet they’re just called Americans. Hell, if you were raised in the USA and have Danish parents no one will call you a Danish-American as long as you don’t have an accent, but if you are of Latino origins and your family has lived on US soil since before the USA was a thing you will be called a Latin-American. It’s just racism.

Nah, that’s a load of bullshit, the only cultural aspect to it is racism. It’s just used as a way to divide people, there’s “real Americans” and then there’s the rest.

There’s a shit ton of black Americans that will never just be called Americans even though their family has lived on US soil much longer than the family of some of the white people who are just called Americans.

That’s something you might lose over time, that’s why some places would install speakers with certain sounds outside their door, kids wouldn’t hang around because it disturbed them, older people just didn’t hear it.

His people, the ones who get hurt the most by all of that, threaten to kill the politicians who could stop him and they have guns…

At least if they move there their wife keeps living around her folks, contrary to mail order wives like my excolleague had…

The anti globalists were calling it 40 years ago and for some stupid reason it’s a freaking fascist who is destroying the system that the left was fighting against back then!

So they end up either paying more from tariffs or paying more from wages being higher because the things are made in the US instead of Asia. The only way all that shit doesn’t lead to a ton of inflation is by giving the same wage as in Asia to people in the USA and then it’s the real estate market that will crash instead.

Why would he work against his goal of creating a digital currency then? Bitcoin is useless for that with transactions that can be left pending for hours because of the block size limit, which Back supported keeping as is.

It’s one of the theories, that it was done by a collective with one person writing on the forum

There’s tons of circumstantial evidence for a bunch of people, but Adam Back keeps talking about the value of Bitcoin (Satoshi would be one of the richest person on earth right now, he wouldn’t care about its value anymore) and was against the changes necessary to make Bitcoin useful as a digital currency (leading to the 2017 fork).

Why did Satoshi create Bitcoin? Because he felt there was a need for a digital currency, not because he wanted to get rich. It’s in the whitepaper.

All the claims of who it might potentially be have been debunked one way or another. Someone was sure it was a Canadian guy not too long ago and he started getting harassed…

People aren’t satisfied with only their basic needs met though.

Dude, you’re the one saying it’s ok to replace paid artists with AI, you’re the one saying it’s able to do their job, you’re the one saying that it can take people’s job, you just don’t feel concerned because you can’t imagine you’ll be the one being affected, you’re the one sounding like a Trumpist “It’s ok, it will only affect others and they’re the people who I believe done deserve to make a living off their work!”

I’m done, this is idiotic.

Again, until your boss feels he doesn’t need you and can just rely on good enough shit regurgitated by AI.

You’ll keep saying that until you end up jobless because a computer can accomplish your tasks in a good enough way, not as well as you, just well enough, then because it suddenly affects you you’ll be angry about it.

It is relevant, free development/services is nice and all, but when you’re spending all your time doing it at some point you still need to eat and that requires money so what do you do? You either give up on the free stuff or reduce the amount of time you spend doing it so you can find a job meaning you lose practice and aren’t at good at it.

I’m sorry to tell you but the people who are the best at what they do don’t do it for free, the reason they’re the best is that they can afford to do it full time because they make a living off it.

And that’s the problem right there

“The best art is the one created by people who get no recognition for it”

Do you also believe the best houses are built by people who have no training in how to build them?

“Stop paying artists and people will keep creating”

They will, they won’t be able to spend the time required to become masters at it unless they’re already rich enough not to have to spend time working. It’s also the same thing here, let’s stop paying plumbers, people who like doing plumbing will just continue doing it. Let’s stop paying garbage people, someone will keep doing it because they like it… Oh wait, no they won’t.

https://newrepublic.com/article/159662/libertarian-walks-into-bear-book-review-free-town-project

People deserve a form of compensation for their work if we want to live in functioning societies. If we go back to living in small tribes then sure, people will just do what they must without compensation because it’s required to survive, but then human population would be in the millions instead of billions and we wouldn’t be here to talk about it because the technology wouldn’t exist anymore.

Bull fucking shit, you know as well as I do that your point doesn’t make sense.