It's actually on the rise again and still in the hundreds of millions: https://bch.gg/7a
Your source agrees the % of people hungry dropped from 14.7% to 10.6%. You dismiss that progress because of a 1-year 0.6% rise to 11%? "Everyone starving under Capitalism" is BULLSHIT.
You are correct. And technology gets cheaper in all systems. Food is cheap too. So why is everyone starving under Capitalism?
Is it because workers aren't paid enough? 🤔
Globalised free trade has allowed for labour arbitrage, raising the value of workers in poor countries (e.g. half a billion people lifted out of poverty since 1981 in China alone)
You are correct. And technology gets cheaper in all systems. Food is cheap too. So why is everyone starving under Capitalism?
Is it because workers aren't paid enough? 🤔
"Everyone starving under capitalism"? You couldn't be more wrong about this - world hunger has declined drastically in recent decades.
Thank you! Something like that is planned. It will be like a floating green price tag that drifts away after someone enters the bus, with their specific fee. And a cha-ching noise.
That sounds fantastic, this is already a really great tool for education/adoption and that would be a great addition
or have the passengers at the very end hold protest banners "we want big blocks"
Or go extra spicy and have a podium next to Lightning House where Big Brother r/bitcoin stands flanked by Blockstream banners, spouting propaganda to the cowed masses while they queue
I love a good analogy so I think TxStreet is awesome, great job! Suggestion: it might be cool to display the median fee on the buses themselves (like a ticket price or something)
Shouldn't the BCH buses look 32x bigger than the BTC buses somehow?
I think there are 32 buses to compare with BTC's single bus.
He claims the chat logs where DPR solicits murder were not him - I don't know if I believe him but there is some doubt at least.
My main concern is the crimes for which he was tried and convicted (no hitmen or murder charges were mentioned in his trial AFAIK) weren't immoral, but he's still in prison for life.
I should clarify: I mean that the crimes for which he's imprisoned were all victimless (no charges of soliciting murder were brought against him, just drug trafficking etc).
He claims the chat logs where DPR solicits murder were not him - I don't know if I believe him but there is some doubt at least.
I feel like he should be imprisoned, as he did try to hire hit-man to get a few people killed, but the sentence given is extremely harsh and without proper justification.
I should clarify: I mean that the crimes for which he's imprisoned were all victimless (no charges of soliciting murder were brought against him, just drug trafficking etc).
In 2013 you'd be hard pressed to find a Bitcoiner who wouldn't legalise every drug under the sun if he could. In 2018 things are different, plenty of left and right authoritarians who dgaf.
However I don't think the crypto community at large (moonkids and all) care, they'd rather just shake off the crimey reputation of the Silk Road and ride institutional money to the moon
In my view Ross is a criminal without a victim. It's a disgusting separation of law and morality that he's been imprisoned for even a day.
Crypto communities might skew libertarian but there are other ideologies present, even Marxists hopeful that a new monetary system will finally permit capitalism to fall the way Marx predicted
Honestly "every ASIC disappearing" is a fantasy, but there is the prospect of a hashpower squeeze that self-reinforces and tanks the network, to which BTC is the most vulnerable
Then individual CPU/GPU miners would be stuck with a difficulty that's a factor of ~millions too hard & blocks that take years to mine
Realistically, if it ever takes a year to mine a block it will be because the network hashrate suddenly dropped by a huge margin (e.g. every ASIC miner leaves the network simultaneously)
Fun fact: the average time until the next block is mined is ALWAYS 10 mins, even if it's been 5 mins, 30 mins or a year since the last block was mined.
EC's boss owns his labour because he paid for it. This was only possible because it was EC's to sell in the first place, i.e. he owned it until he sold it. Nothing wrong with that.
Prediction: Hila Klein is currently pregnant and will give birth in March 2019
Possible doomsday: democrats win big majority in congress in midterms > successfully impeach Trump > Trump refuses to leave office, Trump-supporting civilian militias start civil war
Trump is a worst case scenario. If the US survives in its current form to see a 46th president we can thank those white-wigged statesmen of yore for engineering an extremely robust state.
Trump and Trumpism are a useful stress test of the checks and balances designed over the last 2.5 centuries to restrict wannabe tyrants with huge populist followings.
Really good primer video for newcomers to Bitcoin Cash:
