Luckily this is a double-edged sword and just accelerates internal discrepancies. Hopefully people learn fast to dodge the governments’ money-printing cycles with bitcoin & gold.

I think that's actually how #money got started

they gave soldiers tokens and tiold the peasants that we will be collecting taxes in those tokens annually so you better figure out how to get some

it was a better system than just having the army rob everybody

This note brought back memories of pulling into the parking lot of our old rail yard-facing detachment building and seeing train tracks as far as the eye could see, full of rail cars loaded with military vehicles waiting to be put onto ships and sent on a "peacekeeping mission." I can only imagine what it must have been like for actual combat operations like Afghanistan and Iraq.

The amount of fossil fuels expended by militaries before the first shot is even fired must be gargantuan. Environmentalists who go radio silent on the subject of war are hypocrites. And as you said, fake money makes it all possible.