[ExI] What happens when Bitcoin goes to a million bucks?

[spike]

From: extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org
[mailto:extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org] On Behalf Of Kelly Anderson



On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 5:40 AM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

 

 

>>.More of the same appears like the Gates of Hell are opening wide.

 

>.Bill, are you actually arguing that the Internet is a bad thing? -Kelly

 

 

Depends on how you look at it.  If hell has gates, presumably it has a wall
or fence with the gates being the entrance/exit.  Unless hell is a lot more
fun than has been portrayed, presumably the inhabitants would be far more
eager to exit than would be outsiders to gain entry via those gates.  So if
the gates of hell are open wide, this would be a good thing, as demonstrated
by the first wave of winged rodents, exiting the place like proverbial bats
outta hell.

 

Of course, all the paintings made of the place have two things in common,
one of which is the heat, but the other is that no one is wearing clothes.
With all that wicked-cool nekkidness everywhere, it is no mystery that
people would want in.

 

BillK's list of consequences I fully recognize as bad things for some
people.  I am one of those who came out on the winning side of everything on
that list, but I know people who generally are not internet users who
express discontent.  A good example is that people don't gather and
socialize as much, so those who remember the time before.  

 

As it turns out, people still gather, but they do so with more specialized
interest.  People who are not internet users today seldom have special
interests, or if so, they cannot find the others who are like-minded, these
having found each other long before in internet groups.  Without internet
use, their own specialties might be having social gatherings right next
door, and the non-surfer would never know it was going on.

 

spike 

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