My big question mark is Dorsey. On the one hand, he's a shareholder in Ocean, and on the other, his stance toward Core is pretty clear. I wonder if, at the level of big players like him, it's possible to stay away from the controllers...

wealth and power are distractions. the primary meaning of the teachings of Jesus were about learning to discern reality (God) from unreality (Satan). He said "i bring a sword" not to mean self defense (at least not only, i don't think he spoke against that, but didn't need it because of how advanced he was at doing this reality-perceiving thing, but the sword has long been a symbol of the capacity to reason and discern, and later in Revelation he is depicted symbolically as a man with a tongue that is a sword, meaning his words give people a tool to discern false from true. we have to manage our day to day survival, but beyond that we only need the resources to perform the particular set of tasks that we are called to do, which may not require a lot of resources. when it is obvious you don't have enough, you just have to focus on bringing that into line. but mostly it's about your particular path of seeking towards a clear sight of what is in front of you and around you.

It's a question of incentives. Good design should not depend on trust in honesty, which is not a principle that abounds.