Welcome to @vitalik.eth, co-founder of Ethereum!  

He’s kindly agreed to do an AMA. Reply with your questions. :)

What book helped you most understand how western culture ended up at this point (widespread liberalism + democracy + capitalism)?

CTO @a16zcrypto, lover of https://github.com/a16z/awesome-farcaster

And we can learn a lot from seeing the responses to existing communities on all kinds of scales to pressures and threats, to better understand under what conditions liberalism, capitalism, etc best thrive.

I feel like books are overrated for this and real-world experience with cultures is more underrated. I don't just mean going to and living in different places, I also even mean crypto communities. Bitcoin, Ethereum, etc also have values and have pressures that shape but sometimes risk compromising those values...