# about ‘eth goes hard’

Source: https://warpcast.com/polynya/0xf45864f6
Kiwi News: https://news.kiwistand.com/stories/about-eth-goes-hard?index=0x6729d4ffd31f6f060cb0f361f9b06d4bd33dbd547c48e8fa3bd32824c40d58950a7e3ebd
Submitted by misha on 2024-11-05 UTC, 3 upvotes, 1 comment

## Summary

The commenter argues that Ethereum's distinctive property is objective, strict global consensus and nothing else, so it suits only use cases that need that kind of consensus. Money, contracts, governance, identity and law are described as areas where Ethereum can handle only a very limited, objective slice, and governance and law are called almost entirely subjective with negligible scope for it to help. The commenter claims that 99.99% of economics and institutions are subjective and cannot be interpreted by Ethereum or blockchains in general, and says forcing subjectivity into code has produced disastrous outcomes in crypto.

## Article

Though well-written and inspirational, I believe this post fundamentally misunderstands Ethereum and blockchains. 

Ethereum's distinctive property is objective, strict global consensus, and absolutely nothing else. It's great for usecases that require strict global consensus, but it's impossible for everything else, because Ethereum cannot parse any subjectivity or rough consensus at all. 

As such, while money, contracts, governance, identity, law are presented as examples, Ethereum can only parse very, very limited forms of the above, where it's objective. In some cases, like governance or law, it's almost entirely subjective with negligible scope for Ethereum to help. 

99.99% of economics, institutions and the like are deeply human and subjective, which Ethereum or blockchains in general cannot interpret at all. Indeed, we've seen many a times how forcing subjectivity into objective code has led to many disastrous outcomes in crypto.

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## Comments

**tim**: Working link: https://www.supercast.xyz/c/0xf45864f63a5f93945e6d8f0fb2984d2c3e7039b0

I actually think we shouldn't promote WC links here anymore because the site just doesn't work when logged out