Politics exist because resources and property are scarce, and there are two ways to get things: by economic means and political means. The economic way involves the market and trade and persuasion. The political means, which is where politics comes in, involves force, via "government" edicts, as the means to acquire and allocate scarce resources and property. Many have found it more to their advantage to use the political means of force rather than the economic means of persuasion.

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The scarcity is artificially created by making currency (printed out of thin air) abundant, but only for certain groups, like bankers/corporations and regime supporters

Patents and copyrights, licensure and other laws that restrict the market also create artificial scarcity.

Those laws are enforced by the banks, corporations, regime, regime supporters

Because that’s how they protect their system, that gives them their advantages/power/force

Laws are dead writing on a paper unless the regime/corporations enforce them

And unless people follow them. And that's where the force and fraud comes in.

Exactly, it’s all about fraud and force

Good thing that #bitcoin is immune to force, and mostly to fraud

Iron price vs. gold price

The Iron Rule (politics) vs. the Golden Rule (market exchange)

🀯 yes! I was thinking this:

https://gameofthrones.fandom.com/wiki/Iron_price

but now it’s next level

The political means: