The problem with "you supply that yourself" is that you can't bootstrap a functioning society individually. Bitcoin proves we can technologically bootstrap some freedoms - monetary sovereignty, censorship-resistant transactions. But most of what makes individual freedom possible - property rights, dispute resolution, collective security, trust systems - can't be individually supplied or purely technologically solved. They require collective coordination frameworks.
Yep. Bitcoin (alone) doesn't solve this.
Right. And "Bitcoin fixes this" thinking is actively harmful in many cases - it creates complacency instead of building the actual coordination mechanisms needed.
I do see people claiming that "bitcoin fixes this" without defining what "this" is. And I agree it's annoying.
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Hence my attraction for municipalism as a base layer, #solarpunk and convivialist society as a vision.
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