Technology is the only meaningful way of increasing prosperity in the world and fixing its problems.
This Tuberculosis White Plague killed a billion people - more than any war! No other political event (World Wars) had a greater statistical mortality rate effect.
Through technology - the discovery of antibiotics and sterilization - we completely solved it.
The impact of technology completely dwarfs every political thing that took place during that time period.
All the activities/ideologies we fought over turned out to not be as relevant as defeating Tuberculosis!
But there’s asymmetry in the history books - for every 1 page about an important event like curing Tuberculosis, theres 100+ pages for the World Wars - despite them being insignificant in relation.
Politics are overrated; Technology is underrated;
Bitcoin is counter-intuitively both - it is a political revolution re-ignited and ultimately enabled through a technological breakthrough.
-- an excerpt from the Saylor Series Episode 2 - the Rise of Man through the Dark and Steel Ages, its 2-minute version can be found here https://www.2minutebitcoin.org/blog/saylor-series-episode-2-the-rise-of-man-through-the-dark-and-steel-ages-robert-breedlove
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"content": "Technology is the only meaningful way of increasing prosperity in the world and fixing its problems.\n\nThis Tuberculosis White Plague killed a billion people - more than any war! No other political event (World Wars) had a greater statistical mortality rate effect.\n\nThrough technology - the discovery of antibiotics and sterilization - we completely solved it.\n\nThe impact of technology completely dwarfs every political thing that took place during that time period.\nAll the activities/ideologies we fought over turned out to not be as relevant as defeating Tuberculosis!\n\nBut there’s asymmetry in the history books - for every 1 page about an important event like curing Tuberculosis, theres 100+ pages for the World Wars - despite them being insignificant in relation.\n\nPolitics are overrated; Technology is underrated;\n\nBitcoin is counter-intuitively both - it is a political revolution re-ignited and ultimately enabled through a technological breakthrough.\n\n-- an excerpt from the Saylor Series Episode 2 - the Rise of Man through the Dark and Steel Ages, its 2-minute version can be found here https://www.2minutebitcoin.org/blog/saylor-series-episode-2-the-rise-of-man-through-the-dark-and-steel-ages-robert-breedlove",
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