Modern democratic societies are based on what I like to call "permission-based freedom", which is a system where the state positions itself as both the grantor of rights and their ultimate arbiter. This arrangement represents perhaps the most successful confidence trick in human history, that convinces people that their natural liberties are gifts bestowed by the very institution whose existence depends on their systematic violation. The transition from permission-based freedom to genuine liberty requires more than political reform; it demands a paradigm shift in understanding what freedom really is and a fundamental reconceptualization of social organization. Rather than seeking to constrain state power through constitutional mechanisms (which history shows to be ineffective), the path forward lies in building parallel institutions that make state permission increasingly irrelevant. #Bitcoin was just the beginning.
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The funny thing is I can self report this post to UK Police and they would arrest you at Heathrow when you next land. It's a Karen's paradise.
Hahahaha!! Well it was posted outside of his jurisdiction, I am sure he won’t mind 😂
Beautiful thought and I agree with it.
I just want to mention that Bitcoin being the first step is the most important one.
Bitcoin can separate money from state.
People need their economic freedom and economic power to be able to get their freedom of choice.
Max Keiser is also saying this. We all know the state is there to serve the people, not the other way around.
His view is that people will hold the wealth and will vote with their wealth / invest in public projects that the state will execute.
At the moment we see that companies with economic power do influence the state but with fiat the game is rigged in their favour - access to cheap debt, cantillion effect and so on.
Hopefully Bitcoin as hard money will bring back power to the plebs.
That’s another way to put it! Perhaps an even more ideal future than anything we have in the present.
For you that was the beginning and last station. You will never understand that it is a fecoin which tracks all the movements from users because you don't even use it, just "hodl".
There is no freedom without privacy.
Monero fixes that.
You missed the point entirely, and turned this into a btc vs Monero debate. Let me frame it for you this way, particularly what I meant when I said #btc was the beginning: had btc not existed, it’s highly likely that Monero wouldn’t either.
Monero would have always existed because it is the very definition of what a cryptocurrency is all about, what arguably shouldn't be a thing in 2025 is that fedcoin.
When that kind of outdated thing becomes a state-sponsored cult, even the more reasons for anyone smart to avoid it completely.
Hfsp
