A question for Nostr about bitcoin. I’m obviously clunky asking this question but hopefully you can understand what I’m saying.
Does bitcoin fix this? https://v.nostr.build/aQRjL.mov
Discussion
a swiss bank account that can be privately stored in your head is a pretty powerful freedom tool
I typically believe bitcoin fixes everything in one way or another 😂 but there is so much nuance to this… like how is human trafficking defined? Or what’s considered child exploitation? Prostitution has been around forever and bitcoin helps those in that profession tremendously… but if the prostitute willingly has a pimp and he’s using it to keep her earnings it’s not helping her at all. Does that make her a victim of human trafficking?
I taught dance in one of Georgia’s poorest counties. It was a known secret that a lot of kids who were “kidnapped” were actually sold by their guardian. Bitcoin (and bitcoin education) can definitely help communities like that. If someone is snatched from the airport or off the street or sold by a roommate/frienemy I think a bitcoin standard could change the incentives for the criminals but idk if it will eradicate it.
There is so much evil in the world and bitcoin has and will bring light to such darkness but people have to take responsibility for themselves and stand honestly in truth. Demons have to be called by name and cast away. Unfortunately, it feels like polite society frowns upon that and because of it communication and means of change never come.
Thank you for this response. I’m so freaking clunky talking about it so I need to smooth it out. 💜
I’m never including willing and consensual adult behavior when I’m talking about human trafficking. Trafficking and exploitation includes the use of force, fraud and or coercion. Outside of the U.S. by definition it can include what we call human smuggling but I try to stick to the U.S. legal definition of trafficking.
I think it all comes down poverty and being unable to basic living conditions and to provide to their family so this people become very vulnerable to be exploited just for some money or just because they have no family security. Bitcoin fixes many of the root causes of poverty and mostly done by governments themselves like currency debasement (inflation), stealing people's property and savings with some shaddy laws, this all also leads to corruption and failing of institutions like justice, it leads to and overall degradation of the social trust and order. We can see this in some countries. An example it comes to mind to me is normal people, many mothers in Latin America that are vulnerable and can't provide for their kids, and are lured into drug trafficking just for a few dollars, then they get arrested and then their children get even more vulnerable. If people are getting their savings, property and work being stolen, and financial inequality rises due to the nature of fiat and then corruption, then everyone will disregard laws and take more risks to get what they need and crime goes up and victims go up.
The issue isn't the type of currency. The issue is the mortality of the people, and by mortality I'm not applying the word to the narrow width of sexual immorality that leftist always limit the word to. I'm applying the word to the complete spectrum of good and wrong.
Queer Marxism, and the queer cult being shoved down everyone's throats worldwide by the UN and their UNESCO branch, is doing more to destabilize, sexualize and destroy children than anything out there.
Between UNESCO destabilizing and sexualizing children and the UN pushing and enabling illegal immigration worldwide, you can imagine why trafficking has exploded.
If you want to greatly reduce trafficking, stop the UN and their insane pushing of illegal immigration, and stop their push to destabilize and sexualize children through SEL (Social Emotional Learning), CSE (Comprehensive Sexualization Education) . . . all in the name of DEI.
To understand how the queer cult that the UN and UNESCO are pushing is destroying children, read "The Queering of the American Child" by Logan Lancing w/ James Lindsay.
I firmly believe bitcoin solves many of the underlying problems that create human trafficking- I’m so happy you’re addressing such an important issue 🙏
I think it’s tough because it’s more of a two part answer. BTC can fix poverty issues for people and potentially help them in ways that keep the government from controlling/inflating/delfating/stealing property/etc.
unfortunately I think the second part of the question is the fact that regardless of money and wealth there is a moral dilemma with this problem. As long as people choose to be evil and exploit/traffic/etc then I’m not sure it will stop. The industry still is profitable as disturbing as that truly is 🤷♂️😕
The welfare state breaks down families & community ties which is how we raise healthy people. Bitcoin undermines State efforts to insert itself as the head of most social structures, while preventing the theft that makes people more likely to need help in the first place.
The worst human trafficking & human rights violations happen in dictatorships & war torn countries. It's not really an accident that inflation is a common characteristic of these most corrupt of govts.
I think it's likely that one of the reasons for dragging out the obviously hopeless Ukraine war long enough to decimate the majority of the male population may be an effort to create a fresh supply of vulerable women to be trafficked. Trafficking women is one of things Hunter appeared to be doing there. Things like the Ukraine war are nearly impossible without fiat money.
The "War on Terror" that the US waged on the Middle East cost in dollar terms nearly the entire value of the current global supply of gold. If consumption was constrained by a money that was actually sound, it wouldn't have happened.
#Bitcoin ensures that economic growth benefits the producers & savers. Wealth accumulates to families & individuals rather than to corporations & "equities" as people attempt to escape monetary devaluation. This begins to repair the culture in a foundational way & makes healthier people. And Bitcoin essentially prevents destruction from being profitable.
Adopting Bitcoin definitely changes people for the better. It reduces action from fear & extends people's time horizons.
It's hard to extrapolate out these effects among a small % of the population out into the masses as hyperbitcoinisation accelerates though.
There will still be a select group that has more power & wealth than others. I like to think that these individuals will operate with more morality than the current elite. That the incentives among these individuals will be towards voluntarism over slavery & the exploitation of the weak.
Among the elite, a copycat strategy becomes the most advantageous strategy. Wealth can't be accumulated long term via theft & pillaging. It can only be accumulated by producing more value to more people via voluntary exchange.
People will probably still sell their bodies and the bodies of their children but I think you'll also see a shift in culture around what's unacceptable behaviour.
I guess we'll have to wait & see. 🧡
Great answer thank you!
How people behave is based on how they are raised and on the environment in which they were raised. I'm hard-pressed to believe the "kind" of money they use will automatically change that for the sake of being hard money or the best kind of money.
You might argue that having a deflationary asset as money means people have to work less over time to receive the same amount of compensation which might lead parents to have more time raising their kids and communities better infrastructure but it doesn't remove the "human" aspect of it.
Just because a parent has more time to be with their kids doesn't mean they'll spend it with their kids. I read a good piece by @Laeserin about who would pay for the roads in a Bitcoin world, would there be an incentive to do so? https://yakihonne.com/article/laeserin@getalby.com/1718520479115 Its interesting to think about the implications of removing investment profit motives. In this sense, yes, Bitcoin might remove the incentive to run sex slavery. But like any industry, it doesn't exist without a demand and that means people have to be raised right.
Conditioning plays a part in how people behave because most people act unconsciously based on historical events. Conditioning is the deliberate use of incentives to affect behaviour.
How people behave is therefore largely based on the incentives that exist in their environment. As the incentives change, people's behaviour changes (with time). So much of the problems we see in the world are from misaligned incentives from easy to print money & central planning. People currently look to the authorities to find the best course of action. We no longer work to satisfy the needs of the free market but rather the needs of those who benefit the most from the money printers, the cantillonaires & bureaucrats.
Money is how humans express their preferences for 1 thing over another. It's a technology & protocol for human cooperation. A free market knows to produce more or less of any particular product or service based on price signals. If the underlying money is corrupted, so are the price signals.
I honestly don't know what sort of nihalistic state I'd be in if I hadn't found Bitcoin. I didn't realise how important seperating money from state was.
There’s a meme that we participate in where we say “bitcoin fixes this” to pretty much everything. And it’s because there are very few things in this world that are not corrupted by money and that don’t get better under a Bitcoin standard.