It would be better to live in a world where leaders optimized for goodness, beauty, and truth rather than total freedom.
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The problem with that is that someone will be imposing their definition of goodness, beauty and truth on you and others. It's basically what we have right now.
You think our current leaders are optimizing for goodness, beauty, and truth?
They are optimizing to get (re)elected by promising what a sufficient part of the population considers be good, beautiful and true. Anything other than total freedom implies having others impose their definitions of this.
These things you mention are much different than my original post.
- optimizing to get elected
- what the population believes
The democratic process is not really compatible with leaders optimizing for the transcendentals or freedom.
Also, total freedom is incapable of erecting a civilization where the transcendentals are prioritized correctly. Freedom is powerless against leaders who wish to impose their will on those who wish to be governed by their betters.
The concept of "leaders", democratically chosen or not, is antithetical to both freedom and people achieving what you call the transcendental.
Low time preference and freedom are what makes this possible.
Sound money enables people to build generational wealth, which allows them to dedicate their time and energy to more than just sustaining themselves.
If that sound money is also unconfiscatable, it means leaders' ability to fund government that only serves the interests of a small elite (opposite of good, beautiful and true) disappears. It forces any remaining form of state or government to provide necessary services at prices that people with unconfiscatable and censorship-resitant money are prepared to pay voluntarily, instead of being coerced through (threat) of violence (taxation).
That's the true paradigm shift #bitcoin will achieve long-term.
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