There is no elite in a free world. This is the point. Elites are the ones able to rob the others without suffering any consequences because of democracy who legitimize theft.
This is where come "the elite", from the ability to rob the others "legally".
Any power can legitimize theft. Might makes right.
There are mightier and weaker persons in the Natural state. Democracy doesn't need to create that.
Bitcoin incentivizes taking control of all (earthly) Might.
5 weak men are always stronger that any powerful man.
You don't have a monopoly of violence in a free world.
Even the most powerful, are much less powerful in a society where competition is everywhere, that in a world where monopolies are legitimized and praised by people who are afraid of those same monopolies.
Weak men tend to follow powerful men. The idea that everyone has equal leadership qualities and charisma is fundamentally flawed.
Libertarianism depends upon this logical crutch of humans being interchangeable blank slates.
Just have to look at Nostr. No official CEO, but Jack is pushing 300k followers and calls all of the shots. Odell is right behind him.
This is simply how humans _always_ are.
doesn't change the fact that when they are wrong about something eventually reason prevails and the leadership thus becomes one of ideas, not personality.
also, just look at the history of the initiatives that were inspired by these guys. almost none of them lasted. this bitch@ thing will be no different, because it fundamentally has no legitimate use case.
yes, weak people follow leaders, but strong people follow God and the words He speaks.
christianity is one of the most durable error correction protocols for social order that has existed in all human history. over 2000 years old now.
Leadership is primarily "personality", not ideas. Or, rather, it's "ethos" and a bit of "pathos". "Logos" serves the other two. That's what Aristotle taught in the Rhetoric and humans haven't changed much, since then.
Christians follow Christ. We believe the Word because it comes from Him.
Palavra de Deus is how they say it in portuguese
but there's all that identity politics around that, just pointing out the Word is from God.
there's a lot of people who equivocate about the hierarchy of Authority but at least they generally don't say that men > God. but the hole they open in it is wide enough to fit Sin through and i'm not having that.
i follow no man. but neither do i fight them when they sin. i yell at them. like a good polemicist. unless they get close to me then i turn on the charm. ;)
At the opposite it's socialism and keynesianism which rely on the false premices that humans are interchangeable.
Not libertarianism which glorifies individualism precisely because humans are not equals and have different yearnings and needs.
Libertarisnism just explains that putting a monopoly in place by default to avoid ...monopolies is moronic and can't work (in addtion to be completly immoral of course).
Who watch the watchmen ? Did you ever asked that to yourself ? Their is no government composed of divine angels, just men with all their flaws.
So discouraging any competition in any field at all, is at best dumb, at worst evil.
