Indeed. And I'm a sappy "let's all get along" guy, so I'll add this. Note
that no one has said you cannot or must not build that Callmomcoin — we are
arguing that perhaps you *should* not, based on the logic laid out by
Justus, and that we would advocate that it not be supported or used (if
that was the most important thing to discuss at the time, that is).

—J

On Wednesday, August 20, 2014, Kristov Atlas <kristovatlas.lists@???>
wrote:

> Justus nailed it.
>
> -Kristov
> On Aug 20, 2014 1:30 PM, "Justus Ranvier" <justusranvier@???> wrote:
>
>> On 08/20/2014 04:08 PM, Nicolás Mendoza wrote:
>> > As an experiment, and an art project (like the one linked above), I am
>> > myself proposing a simple combination of these ideas and crypto. The
>> > currency I propose is called CallMomCoin, and it is mined simply by
>> calling
>> > mom on the phone (each user mines their coins by calling their specific
>> > mom). Calling mom is (i assume) universally acceptable as a good thing
>> that
>> > we sholud all do more often, so it is a good way to illustrate the
>> 'mining
>> > by making good' concept. Of course, this is serious in some levels, but
>> it
>> > does have a sense of humour about itself.
>>
>> This is great as a way of perfectly illustrating the Central Planner's
>> fallacy.
>>
>> Not all mothers deserve to receive more phone calls than they currently
>> receives, yet CallMomCoin incentives everyone to do so anyway,
>> effectively subsidizing the mothers that do not deserve to receive more
>> calls and devaluing the ones that do.
>>
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