the freedom to transact directly correlates to the freedom to communicate. you can't have one without the other
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Yep. Would love to relay history where nation founders throwing off a previous government could have imagined government financial censorship - what would the bill of rights look like in that case for example
They are one in the same. Communication of prices.
Or the other without one. I’m just kidding. It sounded funny in my mind so I typed it and pushed post.
That's all that matters then 🥰
Absolutely! Discussed this the other day in one of my law school classes when talking about CBDCs. We were discussing the "benefits," one of which being the programmability of money.
I would have asked why does money need to be programmable?
Talked a lot about the ability to put limitations on what welfare disbursements could be spent on and prohibiting it from being used to avoid sanctions. Of course the glaringly obvious issue I saw was if that is possible, then making your money expire is possible, locking down your wallet is possible, etc. I did bring up the growing weaponization of the finance industry and how programmability can be used to unplug political dissidents and other draconian measures.
Great now you got the Married With Children theme song (AKA Sinatra’s) suck in my head.