↳ In-reply-to » Long term, Bitcoin is an appreciating asset. This discourages debt and therefore discourages slavery.

As with the example of the gun, designed to kill people, vs the knife to cook, that could be used to kill someone. Money is not moral, but the monetary systems are. That’s the tricky part.

As a scientist, I always have to remind: “Scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
That’s where ‘good’ intentions like Google with the “don’t be evil” motto, suddenly, get evil. A search engine is cool. A whole company designed to sell users’ data, not so much. The same thing with anything to store value, it’s tightly connected with power, and that may show the worst part of humans.