Dude you’re totally missing my point 😂😅 so please allow me to be clear:
1. To your og point, I don’t deny programming skills have significant and broad value in “today’s economy”
2. Nor that, by conventional standards, such skills would be a boon
(Ignoring for the moment obvious counterpoints regarding the utility of specialization, and resulting decrease of previously considered “pragmatic skills” within populations of growing economies)
But as to my point: what IS a boon? Wealth? Power? Those don’t mean the same thing to everybody. To some, including many who are rich in both, they’re nothing at all.
And what does it mean to be “slowed down”? A lot of people say that’s exactly what they want. Others blame technology for doing exactly that — “taking” their time (via maintenance duties, bad habits, etc.) they’d rather spend on other things.
(And as to the Cynics, like Diogenes, they’d *reject* such conventional standards, and live “like dogs”)
Hence why so many don’t hold BTC. They can see the initial cost-to-entry, and despite potential long term profit (via anti-inflationary hodling, etc.) this initial cost of learning and effort would “slow them down” from the OTHER things they’d rather be doing.
Da_Mask-sus21 / Dr.EAD
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2023-03-03 22:47:22
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