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These discussions always get to incredibly specific and pointless points.
In the real world it all comes to the point where if you don't have a very well educated, informed and politicaly active population sonner or later the people will get screwed by the power of the government, the corporations or both.
In the real world it all comes to the point where if you don't have a very well educated, informed and politicaly active population sonner or later the people will get screwed by the power of the government, the corporations or both.
You can't have a politically informed population, fetokun. It's impossible.
There are thousand of political issues in the world and we're supposed to vote for politicans that supposedly can deal with thousand and thousand of political issues?
The US educational system isn't up to the task of informing the population what they should know about the issue. Even if they are, it would be an incredible amount of knowledges for each person to have.
Just because we know things, do you really think we would vote in our best long term interest?
Knowledge is dispersed all over the population. Accurate knowledge is difficult to assess if you're not an expert or rational. Never mind the obstacle of overcoming political tribalism and the problem of political irrationality.
Every bitcoiners here know how bitcoin and how the economy works, roughly. However, they are technically and economically savy. Do you really think your grandma/grandpa will be that savy?
As the economy grows, bitcoiners will find it impossible to keep up with bitcoin related information. Instead they will specialize into their niches. Some people will be well-informed about security. Others make a good living at writing fiction. Others know the economics of MMO currencies exchanges. Knowledge will become dispersed. They will be less and less likely to be able to make good decisions outside of the field of their expertise.
There is no such requirement. It cannot even be feasibly enforceable and collective agreement is highly unlikely. People will almost certainly buy products that achieve their ends reasonably. That is the victor in the freemarket. Besides, moral obligations are arbitrarily subjective. What will happen, happens. Idealism changes nothing.
