It's almost like Bitcoin isn't some magical utopia-bringing technology that will diminish the power of the wealthy and decentralize it, but if actually utilized would very much mirror the societal structure we have now, only instead of having sociopathic "bankers" at the helm it would be narcissistic spergs and creepy horsecock-table builders controlling society.

It wears off.  In certain cases at least.  I remember how superior I felt to my anti-globalization friends in the mid-90's because I understood the efficiencies of making trade curves line up and all that.  IIRC, I had just come out of macro-econ class of several hundred with the top score (albeit in a 100 level class at a low end university.)  In fact I had learned nothing more than what the tiny minority of wealthy people wanted me to learn regarding capital and currency and such.  I wish to God that I was still in touch with those friends to I could apologize.  Whether they understood capital better than I at that point I'll never know, but 15 years later I see that their instincts, at least, were much better than those which I had implanted in me in school.

The best indicators of how likely someone is to be politically informed and make the best choices for themselves are their level of education.

Speaking of tulips, have you met my new girlfriend?

Someone in Ask/Tell or BFC probably could (I'm only half-joking - those forums of full of people with both general and very specific expertise).

Don't encourage him. He could write like an article from Nature Cell Biology and he would still be an ignorant little fuck.

Everything you described involved a technology shift. What about commodities, where monopolies really matter? I doubt someone will invent an iron2.0. Monopolies are far more destructive when their influence allows them to soak up resources and access to them.

Yes it does. Monopolies don't just fill up an industry and wait for another person to roll in and provide a better service. They keep expanding, branching into other industries, setting up safeguards to stomp out competition, etc until they are broken up by an antitrust hearing.

See: Standard Oil, old AT&T, United States Steel

I don't agree with schools teaching evolution as fact, when it is only theory. The evolution theory is based on assumptions which can't be proven.

It's like you people don't live in the real world or something.


What happens when the soda monopoly starts buying up the substitutes, running ad campaigns saying their substitutes are poisoned, etc?
How low do you think the barrier of entry for "electricity generation" is? Building and buying up solar panels and generators? Oh yeah, I've got spare parts for a turbine in my garage and several thousand dollars on hand for solar panels and batteries.
Cable TV? Really? What about companies like Comcast who have local monopolies all over the US? Do you think some entrepreneur will think to themselves "There might be some money here in starting my own ISP. Since Comcast won't let me use their network without paying, I better have a lot of cash upfront to lay my own fiber and install networking gear, plus enough extra money left over to absorb lots of losses when I have to sell my service at a loss when the previous monopoly tries to leverage their existing infrastructure and capital to price me out of the market,"

LOL what is 250 years old?  America is two continents, fool.  Is china 50 years old? 
The most advanced agricultural engineers of all history lived in America thousands of years ago.   The education system is really good at what it was designed for..  keeping people dumb.  you can read about the philosophy of the people that set it up they are pretty explicit.  Sadly that kind of populace isn't as productive as it was when it was set up.   

God damn, I think you just wrote the next verse to the Star Spangled Banner.