RE: The myth of the relationship between the profit motive, productivity and innovation.
You know I agree with the core analysis completely. I have felt for the longest time (and since studying it and observing it everywhere) that a mechanism was divided where empathy for each other, trust, relationships, tribal bonds, community and the spirit of self-determination have been completely eroded because everything has a price tag and money itself has become the object of pursuit instead of the things it allegedly buys us. It is this great diffusor, the great distraction, the great diversion of focus and energy that has mindblowingly shaken up humanity's existence at least since ancient Greece, probably much longer.
On the same note, one of my greatest blessings and breakthroughs in recent years have been to slowly find and establish my middle way, walking the line between the dehumanizing parameters of the matrix that everybody seems so stoked on and living a spiritual existence with all the focus put towards how to break the cycle for my kids one day.
If I am the one to do it in my family, to break that cycle of "normality" through "conquering" the game itself - my life will have really meant something in the human story.
Though I hope I am wrong, cryptos may just be the next chapter of the control structre, though - in the spirit described above - it seems a good idea to use them as a spring board in order to facilitate good in the world and eventually come into a position of networking, learning skills and amassing experience to drop out of the ancient con game forever or to reduce its relevance so drastically that it ceases to carry any significance in my life and the life of those I meet.
Talk about a hippie vision huh? <3
Much love to ya brother