Is it a consequence of a free market that Bill Gates is one of the biggest land owners in the US?
Interested in people opinions.
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No it's a consequence of a Keynesian system and a corrupt individual
That's my inclination, but I want to explore specifically how that is the case.
A good place to start would be Microsoft.
Didn't his mother help him access cheap money somehow?
I don't know about his mother ...I watched a documentary on him once and he seemed to have deep psychological issues from a young age
More like direct and inevitable consequence of a FIAT
I agree, but how so?
That's a long enough topic my fingers would get arthritis typing it all. So a crudely summarised version that touches on 0.1% of the evidence that could be presented is:
FIAT is issued by a central issuer so it therefore can be and has been inevitably issued in a corrupt manner that benefits those closest to the issuer.
Bill gates, for a multitude of reasons, is positioned to extremely well, not only to benefit from shifts in monetary policy but from government behaviour, global events (e.g. COVID plandemic) and many, many other things. Nancy Pelocy demonstrates quite well how easy it is to be the greatest trader in the world if involved in or near the people who decide what happens in the world.
He is closer to the feeding trough.
There is no free market when you can print money, that is a safe assumption yes?
100% yes. There is no freemarket when there is centrally controlled monetary policy which can and inevitably does get corrupted. Humans are flawed. We all experience wants, needs, fears and greed. Humans are corruptable. But theaws of physics cannot be bent to any humans will and Bitcoin issuance is bound by the laws of physics.