I don't get the popularity of this take

same with "Bitcoin gave up control to the banks via ETFs" 

this was always the plan, BTC takes over the world and everyone bends the knee

was the community supposed to rally around banning banks and presidents from buying?

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Im sus because what if people just end up delegating control of their coins to institutions, rather than owning it themselves

Totally different to pumping the value of bitcoin though

Write code and delete institutions
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Modular tokenomics 
https://github.com/csmit863/Modular-Tokenomics

True, good to have diversity in that respect

that's their choice? the point of Bitcoin is freedom of choice and the network not having any control over how you manage your own coins