
Issue #1083: We won't be free until money is truly free
There are many things in life that the mass of men have come to accept as immovable truths.
There are many things in life that the mass of men have come to accept as immovable truths.
Bitcoin, leveraging the benefits of a peer-to-peer distributed system with a sound monetary policy, is adding another arrow to the quiver of the Individual.
The good thing is it doesn't have to be this way. We can slowly but surely get back to a world that respects the individual and his money.
"Show me the incentive and I'll show you the outcome." - Charlie Munger
We target consumption and ephemeral growth at all costs to keep the charade alive. Slowly but surely destroying the ability of individuals to pull themselves up from their bootstraps by accumulating capital to deploy to a (hopefully) profitable endeavor in the future.
For a while there, we had no choice but to use the money forced upon us by the State. Just over 10-years ago the table was flipped as Bitcoin hit the scene.