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The "pyramid scheme" was an attempt to raise understanding WHY nocoiners still see Bitcoin as such, while the actual happenings (history) of Bitcoin show that it's not really the case.
People tend to simplify (as do i in my argumentation more often than not). It's easier for them to remember the pyramid scheme narrative than educate themselves in Bitcoin, economy and sound money principles. Bringing in the "pyramd scheme argument" was a perfect move and the narrative grew successfully.
Now it's harder to get followers of the "pyramid scheme conspiracy" educated. A (temporary) win for the "fiat society", because people tend to stay with simple explanations and affirmations. Most people do hard to change their beliefs. Give a simple explanation for a complex question (on a complex subject) and the most dumbest guy/gal will "understand".
We can agree to disagree.. As I already attempted to explain, I consider that the pyramid scheme framework is the opposite of helpful because it is misleading about what bitcoin is, even if people might be able to relate to such a framework.
That is an important factor of AlcoHODL's collegues and relatives NOT really understanding Bitcoin, because they think they already do.
I have my doubts about if AlcoHoDL would be presenting the pyramid scheme as an educative framework to explain bitcoin, unless he were merely striving to contrast bitcoin with such scheme in some kind of way.
Perhaps AlcoHoDL could chime in on this point in terms of whether he would use a pyramid scheme framework to explain bitcoin, merely as a contrast or in some other way.. As I already mentioned, seems distracting and misleading in terms of costs versus benefits in using it rather than helpful from my point of view.
Second biggest factor: Trust.
Humans trust information more, the closer the relation is to the informer. We don't want to be alone, we don't want to decide alone, so we take over narratives from people we look up to, as well as from people we relate to on the "same height of sight" (as we tend to say in my country). While people like us (WO's) are likely seen as freaks by normie nocoiners, they tend to keep trust to information from other normie nocoiners, which form a bigger group they feel related to, while we may seem like mavericks.
Fair enough. There surely is going to be a need to attempt to relate to any audience that we have, and surely any audience is going to be more receptive when able to relate - but I doubt that should mean that we give up and say that we are ONLY going to allow nocoiners to educate other nocoiners, because then they would be just sharing a circle of ongoing retard.
In the background it's even more complicated, just wanted to highlight the simple aspects that stand out more.
To keep it short: Peeps either doing something or not, they are basically driven by fear or love. They fear (refuse) things they don't know, they love (accept) things they do know.
With almost any kind of learning, especially something that seems daunting and complicated, it can take quite a bit of time to get to various points of understanding... so sure, the more that is understood about basics, then the easier it becomes to learn more complicated ideas after gaining more foundational understandings. And, sure many times, many of us fear being overwhelmed by too much information and we have to attempt to learn at a pace that allows the information to sink in rather than completely going passed us.
Strangely, my attention was always drawn to the unknown (which provided me fantastic experiences in the past and present, by the way).
Of course, some people are more adventurous than others in terms of desires to learn, and even some people who might not have tended to be intellectually curious can sometimes be brought around to increasing their intellectual curiosity after they learn some basics that they had not previously understood. Surely, people are not necessarily going to totally transform their way of being or their seemingly natural inclinations, but sometimes they will develop curiosities in areas that had previously been uninteresting to them.
EDIT: Fuck, missed to break CB triplet by a minute :/
You slowpoke!!!!!!!
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