@whimsi.eth
most things worth having tend to break when you try to scale them
religion functioned as a scaling layer for trust and meaning when civilisations moved from <= 150-person tribes by:
- compressing ethics into stories the brain could carry
- externalising conscience into gods, laws and rituals
- creating shared values between strangers
crypto on the other hand scales coordination without scaling virtue, which means that default behaviour is:
- extractive
- transactional
- short-term
not because people are bad BUT because nothing within the system rewards non-transactional behaviour at scale
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