The big difference compared to periods before is the emergence of bitcoin. Money that cannot be printed out of thin air, cannot be manipulated by the authorities and their never-ending narcissistic desire to control and exploit populations and bribe them with their own money. When the money runs out, new money is printed for new grand projects; "research", "sustainable energy", "healthcare", "pensions" and, the cherry on top, "wars to preserve peace".

We are early in the process, but the fact is that Bitcoin undermines this type of narcissistic psychopathic, oversized state formations.A state should only be concerned with protecting life, limb, and property. Everything else is only there to gradually increase the size of the state.

The state should be STATIC. To manage it competently, no elections are needed! It needs to generate revenue and this can be done by imposing a low, semi-fixed tax rate that can ONLY move downwards, never upwards. When money is lacking, bureaucracy should be cut.

No research, no healthcare, no pensions, no public transportation, etc. should be managed by this state.

These are radical ideas, but they are radical not because they are crazy or divorced from a possible reality, but because they are foreign. We have been brainwashed from childhood 🤷.