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Mike | Abundance
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There's a famous Reagan joke about how in the USSR people had to wait 10 years to receive a car they ordered; illustrating how inefficient the Soviet system was. Yet many people in the USSR didn't know they're in a "10-year delay" system - they knew they had to wait, but - thanks to the Iron Curtain - they just didn't know there could be a system where you don't need to wait. But what if our economic system is also a "10-year delay" system (in scientific research, medicine, resource allocation, economic growth, technological progress and so on)? And what if we just don't realize how inefficient our system is because we don't know what an alternative system could look like. This is the 100X "use case" that blockchain technology need to unlock.
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ProductShare DAO
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I was born in the USSR and you only had to wait 10 years if you were unwilling to pay the bribe to the dealership. How bribes factor into this?
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Mike | Abundance
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The joke may have been an exaggeration (I read somewhere that average wait was 6-7 years) but the inefficiency of the system is pretty clear
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