HackerNews hasn’t been about hacking for many many years now. It’s about corporate engineers clamouring for the next $250k paycheck. That’s because they reached scale.

I’m beginning to think in general that there’s no efficient way to accelerate the transition or onboard normies. Just know that gravity will prevail.

People cannot see the flaws in any existing system, until the moment that they are ready. They need to have an epiphany, not just stumble upon a small comment on an existing site they read.

People disagree that there exists a problem, let alone that there is a solution to said problem. And worst of all these poor people disagree that they should even entertain discussion about alternatives. As you say, to them it’s disrupting to the comfort of their current existence, to even have the conversation, rather than do any legitimate research or have any debate.

People will need to be find their way by their finger being burnt by the existing structures. By seeing its flaws first hand.

This is why I believe that the theory saying how Bitcoin will suck-up everything into a black hole, I believe, are wrong.

The existing system from the coming years is not compatible with this growing network. Both will likely run in parallel but they will not be interoperable as they are today. The existing system and those who are aligned with it, will defend it to the end. That alternative is not a black hole, the existing system is the black hole for itself.

Perhaps I will write-up a long form article on this theme in the coming days. I know there’s a lot of metaphorical content out there already in the community, but this one topic I believe is under-appreciated. Especially as we are witnessing it first hand, in examples like this with HN