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Vitalik Buterin
@vitalik.eth
No. And I'm also not a capitalist. Both are 20th century ideologies. (And they are words that have been stretched and abused to the point of meaninglessness: remember, in the 1990s, Microsoft called Linux "communist": https://www.theregister.com/2000/07/31/ms_ballmer_linux_is_communism/ ) I support freedom, global equality of opportunity, kindness and cooperation, human welfare and progress. These are timeless principles. The question is how to use the tools we have available to achieve these values in the context of the 21st century. I've written at length about the kinds of mechanisms I personally support, but I definitely do not think that I am the only source of good ideas, I think figuring out the best approach is a shared project of both thinking and also increasingly real world experimentation.
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0xLuo
@0xluo.eth
This kind of question is tricky as you don’t know what communism or capitalism means from their perspective. These terms have become distorted and taken on many different meanings in the process of dissemination and interpretation. so when you mentioned the C word earlier, many people might have understood it differently from how you intended, leading to an amplification of misunderstandings based on their misconceptions. Therefore, it’s wiser and more desirable to emphasize specific principles rather than any “-ism.” No one should be bound or hijacked by an ideology; instead, they should pursue concrete values.
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