Ep. 5 - "Crony Anarcho-miLLinerism" (03/24/2016)

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This week Tone and I meet to discuss voting, or something, but I get us into a discussion about a map that Tone didn't think was interesting which leads to a discussion about whether or not Capitalism is crony. Blab.im - Recording https://blab.im/dan-anderson-unconfirmed-transactions-ep-5 Follow Dan: https://twitter.com/droplister Follow Tone: https://twitter.com/Tone_LLT Research into instantaneous vote behavior in bitcoin subreddits https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/4biob5/research_into_instantaneous_vote_behavior_in/ Bitcoin vs Blockchain https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUTTqiZ4bwY MAP: The Cargo Chain http://welcometocup.org/file_columns/0000/0008/cargochain.pdf Last XCP Road Map (w/o smart contracts) http://counterparty.io/news/development-update-enlarging-the-team-and-laying-out-our-roadmap/ XCP Stake Voting: v1: https://counterpartytalk.org/t/cip-xcp-dividends-for-pos-voting/1895 v2: https://counterpartytalk.org/t/cip-proposal-voting-meta-protocol-through-broadcasts/1926 Union Density (I was wrong on 5% overall, but take a look at the reality) http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2015/02/23/385843576/50-years-of-shrinking-union-membership-in-one-map Marxism 101: How Capitalism is Killing Itself https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6P97r9Ci5Kg "As of 2010, the richest 5% of U.S. households owned about two-thirds of all outstanding stock, a number that is likely as high as 70% today." (I said 1% own 75%.) http://www.salon.com/2013/09/19/stock_ownership_who_benefits_partner/ What Will Become Of China's Ghost Cities? http://www.forbes.com/sites/kenrapoza/2015/07/20/what-will-become-of-chinas-ghost-cities/ China's stockmarket crashes—again http://www.economist.com/news/business-and-finance/21685146-chinas-stocks-and-currency-start-2016-big-tumbles-chinas-stockmarket LA environmental success story: cleaner air, healthier kids https://news.usc.edu/76761/las-environmental-success-story-cleaner-air-healthier-kids/ TAPI Pipeline (Planned to traverse the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan) http://www.ensec.org/index.php?option=com_content&id=233:afghanistan-the-tapi-pipeline-and-energy-geopolitics&catid=103:energysecurityissuecontent&Itemid=358