(Please first read the initial post Tech and Philosophy Unite and share to tech people if you think it is important. Thanks!)
We are building a crypto-system with widespread ownership of productive capital through universal access to credit. It is based on the teachings of Louis Kelso (inventor of ESOPs) and Dr. Norm Kurland who launched the Just Third Way movement. Most of us have been promoting the core principles for decades and have learned that a small percentage of people from any background who hear the ideas become proponents, although most unfortunately ignore it or simply don't “get it”. We don't expect the tech community to be any different. But Bitcoiners who have criticized status quo institutions for discouraging competition should allow us into the conversation if they want to be intellectually consistent.
Bitcoin may be with us for generations to come as a store of value, and it may hit a seven-figure price. If it is going to, the discussion of other ideas about a possible crypto project that is not built yet won't prevent that. Even if the project challenges premises accepted in error by most crypto enthusiasts, such as "scarcity is necessary for sound money that is non-inflationary". So if you hear about something that goes against prevailing narratives, discuss it. Debate it. Tell everyone the people behind it are nuts if you think so. But get all the interesting ideas out in the arena.
It's ok if this philosophy contradicts much of what you have said publicly about the impossibility of having sound money other than Bitcoin. Your position is understandable if you've never heard of the "banking principle". Or you can say you knew about the theory but you didn't think it was valid because it has been tried before and was corrupted. We contend that this corruption can be prevented by the same transparency and decentralization that you correctly adore. But there is no shame in thinking there are only two paths, scarce money (good) and elastic money (bad). That is what you have been told over and over for years. Now, however, there is an organized effort to bring the truth about how a contract is money and how we can be freed from the slavery of past savings by monetizing only feasible business transactions in a way that empowers all.
You may be reading this and saying "No way. This is a pipe dream." Odds are high that is your response, but some who read it are thinking "This confirms what I've been feeling about how most of the world lives on a few dollars a day and all systems (old and new) just continue to exploit." It is that fraction of questioning, optimistic human thought we are targeting. There are some tech-minded people with that confused, healthy doubt about what they are seeing in the world. Why not help them hear about this community so we can actually implement and test these theories? Experimentation is essential to find out if theories work. Sometimes intentions produce opposite outcomes. But your very freedom to use crypto may depend on "test results" of monetary experimentation that has yet to be tried.
A previous posting mentioned how crypto could be blamed for the next "bust" via crafty narrative shaping. If there is an "everything bubble" burst, the money printers can try to say we did not have the problem until "evil crypto" came along. But if we have a successful test of the Just Third Way, the argument for bottom-up empowerment of all of humanity will be clear and move us away from central control that allows draconian controls on the movement of value in and out of things like Bitcoin and precious metals. We need the freedom to use any money we want and to exchange between assets freely. Until one of the new decentralized systems is built to empower all who voluntarily participate with wealth, the sentiment allowing top-down control and over-regulation will persist.
Share our initial post with a software developer, a crypto Twitter influencer, a Clubhouse moderator, a futurist author, or anyone you know who cares about these things. Tell them you found a group of insane people who are living in fantasy-land. But get us into the conversation because more financial freedom and choices are good for everyone everywhere. Large numbers of people need to hear our controversial assertions and discuss them publicly so that the few who are (or can become) distributed ledger developers hear them, because a percentage will believe our ideas make sense and want to try them. It's just a numbers game.