Impressive looking research, but it misses something fundamental happening; environmental damage to the extent life is rapidly being extinguished.

Whether or not to believe competition is a good and necessary thing, seems at the heart of the question of whether or not our species will survive.

But you seem not to question that, only evidence to support maybe Hayek’s premise that it is a good thing.

If we analyse the physics of how we treat energy, how that drives all profit, and how that resulting scheme continually removes energy from Earth, we maybe start to realise there is a better way of doing things.

In fact we even realise it is the only way.

Kardashev saw it, when he drew up his scale of human progress.

We are still on level zero.

We won’t leave level zero, until we dispense with profit, one way or another.

It might be happening with Bitcoin, in a much different way than even the designer Satoshi Nakamoto presented it.

I’ve explained that many times now in Medium, anyone who cares to read it can search it out.