CD doesn't like REGULAR money, because the bad sort of people earn it and - worse yet - can bank it, thus creating wealth. So CD posits a new system where no property can be controlled (hence no wealth), but wuffie ebbs and flows and gives people power it's a sociopath fantasy
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no one should ever be allowed to keep things private, or save them for the future ; I - w my big Boing Boing fanbase - should be allowed to step in, touch the stuff, rearrange it, and the cheers of the crowd that I brought with are the only form of wealth / power / might / right
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and the connection to this topic is that MattY probably thinks that he has far less wealth than his "peers", but his true wealth and power is off book - he can start or end a populistic jihad with a dozen tweets
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the vast majority of the power resides in the network, not in any of the individual nodes
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I have no idea how or if that's falsifiable
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things need not be 100% falsifiable to still be subject to disproof "extroverted people are more likely to ____" is quite falsifiable things that are basically isomorphic to other things are non falsifiable
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"I think that it's not that the north pole of the compass points to the north pole of the planet, but that the south pole of the compass points to the south pole of the earth earth" is ... just isomorphic to something we already agree on
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it's like "pilot wave" theory, at least as it's been explained to me: "it's not that X happens, it's that a non existent untestable Y happens, and then erases itself, and then something exactly identical to X happens" "ok" (said with complete contempt)
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But they're not equivalent, because they do not afford equivalent responses You said "he can start or end a populistic jihad with a dozen tweets" and I'm saying that to a large extent this isn't true
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