We're talking about a system, actually you brought this up, and made it sound like in a decentralized world your opinion and your voting power means more than in an election...which we don't have!
If you live in a country of a population of 7 people with 2 running for president, your voice has a strength of 1/5, if there were 5 miners each running their node, your voice/code would have the same voting power, so where do things differ?
-In government elections, you can't legally and honestly buy more votes whereas in
BTC you can buy them with $
-In government elections, you only have limited options, usually two jerks whom you know are going to fuck you over, you chose the one who is less likely to **** on your face
, whereby in
BTC, you may just run a node that says you own 99% of the supply.
-In government elections, if your guy loses, you can try again in 4 years, nothing major, whereas in
BTC if enough people oppose the current "rules" you break the community into two (ya elections do break community in some cases in some countries)
So ya, not sure what you guys are trying to get to with this government stuff, but you can find many similarities as well as many differences, to me, the main difference between the two is that the winners in
BTC election are likely to have good intentions after all, they invest a lot of money and time and they would want what's best for
BTC even if it goes against my point of view, I would still somehow benefit from losing, whereby in government elections, there is a huge chance that those getting the votes (including mine) are actually going to screw me over, steal my money and make my life worse.
This is one of the reasons why I am not all-in super maxi YOLO shit, I don't attack those who think blocks need to be huge, I mean aside from the sick minority who want to destroy Bitcoin that exists on both sides, I believe the majority of them are genuine people who want what they think is best for
BTC, it just so happens that their view on things differs from mine.
We shouldn't try to fix this as it's going to ruin our golden goose and everyone is comfortable with the $ rather than the utility!
That is an interesting point you have right there, and I would personally say I care more about the value of
BTC than the "utility" BUT, only after defining what "utility" actually is, you may think utility is
BTC being a great medium of exchange, cheap and instant like credit cards, and that's fine, someone else may say the best utility for
BTC is the store of value or the ability to transfer it without going through one or more centralized entities.
Interestingly enough, if I asked you the same question, I would be very surprised if you said you care more about the "cheap and fast" aspect than you care about the "value", because I know you are someone who perfectly understands what bitcoin is, and what are its limitations, it's technically not possible for
BTC to beat any traditional medium of exchange in terms of speed and price.
The reality is,
BTC was never intended to do such a thing, I don't understand why many people think
BTC took a different path, it's probably people's different ways of interpreting the white paper.
A purely peer-to-peer version of electronic cash would allow online payments to be sent directly from one party to another without going through a
financial institution
Every single aspect of the abstract of the white paper still holds true, you can still transact
BTC without going "through a financial institution", the white paper doesn't say you would transact for dirt cheap, does it?
Obviously, it doesn't mean
BTC can't be a lot cheaper to use than it is now, so none of that does justify why blocksize shouldn't be increased, all the arguments against that are rather weak today, so whatever excuses some people had back then and were somewhat valid -- are probably totally meaningless and useless now.
The real question however is, can we keep the same level of security, reliability, and smoothness with a block size increase of say 300% where blocks become 12MB on disk, will that break the bank or burn the hardware of any node out there? certainly not, but will 12MB solve all the scalability issues? also no
So now it becomes a matter of what people who own Bitcoin actually want. are the majority of people upset about the fees? are there enough people ditching
BTC for its high fees? these questions are hard to answer, if I were the
BTC's CEO and had to take action, I would cut block rewards and time in half then increase the block size enough to suck the volume of all major altcoins and stop there.