I just think it’s more to do with incentives that’s all. Drake doesn’t have to be playing 4D chess to reinvent himself and do whatever will make him more money. And I think record labels spend a lot of money studying, and likely influencing, trends to make more money. As fiat makes people poorer, drugs and other degenerate activities become more compelling lifestyles. A song about getting out of the hood through drugs and killing is a better story than starting a business or pursuing an education plus career in a world where people are being debased. Fiat ruins everything.
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It's incentives, sure, but money isn't everything. I'm incentivized to go start a shitcoin and pump and dump it to gain more Bitcoin. But I don't do it because I have a moral code and an ethical framework which prevents that type of behavior. I do agree with what you're saying, but all I'm saying is there are cultural elements which play a factor outside of just fiat.
Even fiat itself, which is based on deception, theft, and usury, appeals more to certain types of people than it does to others.
That’s true. In Japan, their economy isn’t the best but the people still manage to throw their trash away. It’s incredibly clean compared to other places. Culture is powerful and I think fiat destroys culture more than any other thing out there. I also think that government actively destroys culture. Think of the government putting drugs in black communities. Really sad.
Who created fiat and who runs the government? Hard questions but they have to be asked.
There is a lot of historical context and technical reasons why these things happen but at the end of the day this shit didn't just descend down from the sky.
Real people implemented all of this fucked up shit, and real people perpetuate it today.
I think it was 5 or 6 guys that met on Jekyll island and planned it all
That's right. What kind of people were they? What did they believe in? Who helped them? Who did they associate with and fund?
All important questions.
On November 1910, six men – Nelson Aldrich, A. Piatt Andrew, Henry Davison, Arthur Shelton, Frank Vanderlip and Paul Warburg – met at the Jekyll Island Club, off the coast of Georgia, to write a plan to reform the nation’s banking system.
The history is way too extensive to write in a note, but I'm sure you've heard of the books and podcasts to find it in. TLDR: These men represented established banking interests, at times from foreign countries, and used high level manipulation tactics to become a parasite on the US.
I’m sure that’s all true but it’s incentives that motivated those things imo. It’s not some premeditated desire to just create evil and destroy the world. They want more money and power. And the desire for money and power tends to be insatiable. It’s a flaw of humans. We evolved to have scarcity mindsets.
Human greed
Exactly. We know that power corrupts.
It’s my greed that led me to Bitcoin. My desire to be wealthy and have a better life. If I gained a position of power, I might be corrupted. In fact, many of you would expect that. That’s why nostr and bitcoin are decentralized. We’re not fixing the world with altruism. We’re doing it by aligning with people’s self-interest in a way that can’t be corrupted. If we need people to change to fix the world, then it’s never going to happen. People will never change.
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