Re anyone interested in a “psychology of bitcoin(ers)” perspective from someone who’s been in a Fukuyama vortex for the past four days:

Fukuyama suggests that the desire for access to consumer goods was a greater force in liberalizing authoritarian states such as the USSR and communist China than the states’ compassion toward their voiceless population…in this way, tax free “black market” clothing swaps may be an act of political protest.