This is a must listen podcast for Bitcoiners: https://www.econtalk.org/omer-moav-on-the-emergence-of-the-state/

Deeply insightful analysis of how the state emerged, and how it operates as a mechanism to maximize rents to the elites. Easily explains recent pushes to impose more control on food supplies, bitcoin mining etc.

Fortunatley, Bitcoin is cassava and not a grain.