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"The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking."
Thank you for doubling down on it. Next tell us about your perpetual motion machine, followed by that quote of course.
False equivalency.
It's a good thing not everyone is as arrogantly resistant to new possibilities as you, otherwise human progress might cease entirely.
Funny because that's essentially what YOU did. You don't know what you're talking about, so you handwave away people that say that's not how it works, first with your quote and second with "false equivalency". And you miss the point. The whole point is your "idea" is as possible as a perpetual motion machine, except this time with essentially a money glitch.
And you're still at it! "Something something new possibilities!"
Dude you have no idea how it works. And worse is that you have no idea that you have no idea. And it gets even worse when you dismiss everything with your quote. And EVEN worse is that you attack people when they say that's now how it works. Ok that's enough for me. Ciao.
I didn't mean to imply that I think what I'm suggesting is possible in the current system. I should have made that more clear. That's my fault. I understand that what I'm talking about would require significant systemic changes. To you, that might essentially make it impossible, but I don't think that's necessarily true. People made the existing system, there's no reason why people couldn't make a different system.