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This a very one linear way of looking at the world.

Sure, it might be about "power games" but feelings do matter and morals too and how one feels about it does give you the extra energy and drive to succeed at a (re)negotiation. So... how can one ignore all that?

The original debate was if it's unfair.

I think taking advantage too much during an initial negotiation is unfair but since the other side did agree it is a "fair" trade for the other party (based on the partial info they had).

Once extra information is revealed, the trade is not fair in retrospect. But new information should only apply to future trades: as such, negotiating or quitting is moral.

You might be sub-estimating how good people are at power games. Quitting out of spite is know to happen so people are willing to take a loss due to unfairness.

Assuming rationality and ignore feelings and morals while focusing only on the technicality of "power games" is super simplistic.

> But there's another truth to it that the article also describes--if you agreed to work for a wage and then receive that wage, can it really be called unfair?

You define what's fair based on what information you have. If new information reveals that trade was not only unfair but a blatant rip off you are within your rights to feel something about it.

Still, I think one should accept the past trade. But there's no reason for that, combined to the new information to guarantee a continuous relation.

In other words, renegotiation based on new information that substantially change the deal is moral.

"Presumably". In truth they are filtered and data mined on the spot.

A cross-country wire payment visits multiple jurisdictions already with the US getting first dibs via SWIFT.

My local IRS can also read them.

So they are effectively public for all major actors.

> Using bitcoin to avoid government surveillance is like saving your passport on a billboard to avoid hackers.

And I'm saying its main purpose is not to avoid surveillance but at as an inflation hedge.

The fact that the governments also see in real time should count as a vote of no confidence.

I agree and I'm not saying to only pick one hedge.

I wouldn't have anything if I would receive any of it. But otherwise it seems to devalue the fiat I own so we have to come up to solutions to counterbalance that.

It doesn't matter. Making a wire payment or paying with a card is also surveilled and archived until the end of time.

BitCoin's major purpose is as a hedge to massive fiat printing.

This is not surprising.

I was reading an article about an artist early on into the pandemic that mentioned he started a collection of peoms as his way of "processing" the pandemic.

Since I was writing some code specifically to track the Covid progression and estimate future evolution it resonated with me.

We all process the world with what we are and what we do. For some of us that included coding.