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In my last note, I was talking about blend of anarchists of all colors. That got me thinking about actual color theory and, to keep it simple, I focused just on mixing yellow and red. That gives you orange. Orange, in my mind, represents Bitcoin, a bridge between two otherwise completely different and mostly incompatible anarchist theories.

But orange is already spoken for. It stands for Mutualism and it seems that every time red is part of the mix, the whole thing gets tainted by utopia and naivety. I will let you be the judge:

> "Mutualism (from the Latin word for "mutuality") is an anarchist political and economic system developed by Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, based on the labor theory of value. Its central claim is that when someone sells their labor or its product, they should receive goods or services embodying "the amount of labor necessary to produce goods of exactly equal utility." If they receive less, mutualists consider it exploitation or even theft. They also argue it is wrong for someone to earn income from loans, investments, or rents, because, in their view, such income does not come from actual work. Mutualists believe that if the state stopped interfering in the economy, such forms of income would disappear. A truly free market, they argue, would ensure that everyone’s income corresponds to the amount of work they actually do."

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Carey Hudson 7mo ago

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