Delightful piece from considering the merit of Bitcoin via a veil of ignorance thought experiment. Doubles as a nice introduction to various philosophical concepts
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The question:
"[Assuming no knowledge of your actual status/ identity/circumstances], in which kind of world would you prefer to live, a world with bitcoin, like our own, or a world without bitcoin, one like ours but where bitcoin had never been invented?"
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Because questions of ideal monetary systems are so influenced by one's own position in society (and proximity to the monetary spigot), adopting a veil of ignorance framework makes sense, yet no one ever does it.
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I've been very impressed by the work of the three philosophers at resistance.money, , , and . (adjacent) as well. Robust philosophical inquiry pertaining to Bitcoin has been far too scarce historically.
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Replying to @joekelly100 and @allenf32
I go in for the Rawlsian dialectic, reasoning, by way of Reflective Equilibrium, what sort of monetary system, and resulting economic order, I would choose to accept from behind the Veil of Ignorance: Bitcoin.
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