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Yes, each cell is separate, and every cells’ something the government should have done.
functioning, functions for the whole body. Whether you’re feeding hungry people, whe-
So, how do you manage that system? ther you’re cleaning up the waterways, whether
How can you be a leader in this system? you’re saving children from child trafficking. The
Our basic premise is, everyone is a leader government should have taken care of that.
and everyone has 100% responsibility. Why am I having to send charity? So, we ac-
So, if you start to function with that premise, tually already have decentralized governance.
it’s unpleasant. We have double taxation, right? We’re paying
„What am I responsible for?” our government to do that, they’re not doing it,
„Well, right now, you’re responsible for eve- and now we’re paying a charity do it. It’s cra-
rything!” „What do you mean I’m responsible zy. People will say to you, „if you want to be a
for everything?” „Well, you know, the school rich entrepreneur, you want to be rich so you
can pay money, more taxes, to do this non-
-profit work which is going to change the world
in the way you want.” Empirically, we can say
that’s not working very well.
It’s not working very well to have entrepre-
neurs making more money so they can donate
more money to fix the world. It’s broken.
system in your country.” „Why is that MY
responsibility?”
„Well, it’s not your responsibility if you don’t
have to live with any of the people who’ve
gone through that educational system. But, if
you have to live with them and they’re une-
ducated idiots and they can’t get jobs now, it
affects you.
So, okay, pretend you don’t have responsibi-
lity.”
VoB: It’s really a pleasure to hear what you
have to say, your philosophy
Grace Rachmany: So, „it’s so overwhelming! I’m
responsible for everything now!?”
„Wait a second... you don’t care about every-
thing.” Again, I go back to caring.
„How will governments work in the future?...
how can we govern ourselves in this world?”
I would say, you’re already in this world. If you
look at how many non-profits, we have ‚for-
-profits’ and ‚non-profits’. What’s a non-pro-
fit? A non-profit is usually doing something
the government should have done. So we’re
asking, what’s it going to look like when we
govern ourselves?
Buddy, we already govern ourselves.
Every nonprofit that’s out there is doing
So, how are we going to start to govern ourse-
lves? People ask, what’s the biggest innova-
tion of Blockchain? It’s Bitcoin.
It’s Bitcoin itself because Bitcoin is a clumsy
first attempt. Everything we’re doing now by
the way, everything in the industry, is a clumsy
first attempt. So we don’t really know, but we-
’re sort of clumsily trying to figure it out.
„What are we going to do about bitcoin? It
takes all this energy.” I don’t know. Somebody
is working on that. It’s not me, but there are
enough of us who care about different things.
So, even though I’m responsible for that, I’m
not the person working on it. I am responsible
for the fact that Bitcoin takes a lot of energy so
maybe I want to have a spread out portfolio, and
a little bit more of those ones that are Proof-of-
-Stake instead of Proof-of-Work. That doesn’t
mean I work on that. But, by putting my portfo-
lio of cryptocurrency into more Proof-of-Stake,
I’m giving money to people who are working
on that.