A common conceit in tech circles is that you could easily make the world a better place, just put technical people in charge and the rest will take care of itself. As this post so clearly illustrates, techies can be just as delusional and blinkered as everybody else.
Do we know that most of the people at this Crypto Circle conference are techies though?
From the brief description it just sounds like your run-of-the-mill cryptocurrency enthusiast conference and mostly for “investors”. It’s not a builder conference where it's mostly hackers or technical leaders, and those do exist.
I’ve been to both types of conferences and I’m not surprised Bartle got the cold shoulder by most of the audience if the conference is of the former. People are usually there to seek alpha or cut deals, not talk about how to improve the tech or processes. Could be argued that having tech people a the helm could make things better in this case.
I didn't intend to be taken literally, I was more commenting on the habit of trying to find technical solutions to social problems while ignoring the underlying causes
