I think the real point that no public figure is willing to say, is that if this virus did leak out of a CCP lab after being modified the entire world will to some degree or another demand consequences for the CCP.
While doubtful the consequences would lead to nuclear war that’s not outside the scope of possible outcomes. What’s more likely is the vast consumer public rejecting the relationship with the CCP, leading to a quicker downward spiral of relations leading to risky military situations and a lot of rich people with a stake in China trade becoming slightly less rich.
I don’t think anyone is suggesting you learn about virology and fly to wuhan and start looking around. Maintaining multiple explanations as possibilities until one is proven, while resisting political tribalism shrouding your view of the truth, is I suppose hard for many people to pull off. But that is what we’re suggesting you try to do, maybe next time we have a global pandemic…
Perhaps begin by entertaining ideas as possible until proven otherwise. No scientists ever provided conclusive proof the virus didn’t originate in a lab. If you were to look at what some scientists were saying such as the former director of the CDC you would hear explanations including evidence that suggested it probably did leak from a lab. But since the dawn of search engines, we’ve been suggesting that lazy people investigate and seek out the truth instead of clinging to dogma that validates their biases. Perhaps that will never change. I get it if you’re not interested in the actual truth, but that is exactly the problem. We as citizens who have dealt with this crisis deserve to know the truth. And by the way, an empowered and informed citizenry is what makes a nation strong across all metrics. If you only care about yourself I get it, make your money. But some of us still care about our country (whatever country we live in).
its a good point but more interesting to consider the history of money as a private enterprise, aka fractional reserve banking and independence of the fed, -> private financiers of governments going back through the ages. Modern gov fiat has been the best form of money yet but is still backed by private 'lending' . Whats SUPER interesting is how the proof of work -> proof of stake models continue to provide a monetary system in which the money holders control the system, it seems for now an unavoidable component -> good incentives for value allocators
By the way if you're interested in experimenting more broadly outside of a stripe integration I wrote the quickstarts for Optimizely Full Stack which use a discount example, feel free to ask me questions about how it works :) (we have a free plan too) https://docs.developers.optimizely.com/full-stack/docs/javas...