How are progressive policies even affordable without fiat?
It’s a common myth I see touted in the Bitcoin community that going down the bitcoin rabbit hole will make you less of a progressive.
For me that’s not true at all. It did, however, raise my awareness and skepticism of centralized authorities like the federal government, the Fed, etc in terms of handling our money and given too much control to breach our privacy in any instance. I think it is true that more often than not progressives don’t push back on centralized government authority and interference enough, and look to often to the federal government for support of the community and social values we care about.
Basically I went from not questioning centralizing enough to fighting for decentralization in as many instance as make sense — this is progressive in the sense of greater individual/community control, more democratic, more with everyone playing by the same rules.
Do you want a world ruled by centralized authorities in every instance, or a world where rules without rulers and decentralized protocols usher in a new era or freedom, liberty, and harmony? This is the message I’m hoping to spread to more progressives. And in terms of educating on money, federal governments, privacy, and decentralization I think nostr:npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a , nostr:npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tp & nostr:npub1sn0wdenkukak0d9dfczzeacvhkrgz92ak56egt7vdgzn8pv2wfqqhrjdv9 are some of the best to speak to progressives on these topics without getting bogged down in ideological warfare
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You could say the same for “the right”
None of it is. There needs be be a soft transition to a bitcoin standard.
A soft landing 😉
But there probably won’t be :/
Typical Lefty. When you don't want to answer the question directly, point to the worst example of your enemy.
I talk progressive values. I’m may not agree with certain government policies, as you would know from my writings and other notes. I don’t have answers for a lot of these things yet but I argue the system is not working.
I’m talking things out in real time on nostr
You’re trolling and labeling. I don’t have enemies based on labels of individual people. Everyone is caught up in this system
It’s not right v left
Progressive values without government is just the lamest religion ever.
Exactly. Liberal policies are to print money and use it to make lives better for the poor and disenfranchised. (Which they sometimes do.) Conservative policies are to print money and give it to the rich and powerful. (Which they always do.)
If neither can print money, then they both will have to cut their welfare policies and/or raise taxes.
It’s easy to inflate the currency, which is essentially an invisible tax on the poor and disenfranchised. It’s harder to actually raise taxes, particularly on the poor and disenfranchised, because it’s more visible and, by definition, they don’t have much money. And there’s a lot of them and some of them tend to vote.
In a Bitcoin standard, if we want any programs that benefit all of society, there’s only one solution:
Tax the fucking rich.
Its a good question, and the answer is it is only 'affordable' with massive pain to the vast majority of your population. I guess if were talking about progressive ideals like ' health is a human right ' , ' UBI', ' college for all', ' minimum wage', etc. Then layer in reality of a highly indebted society and now you are really getting taken for a ride if you vote for any of the above.
I think it would help me if Trey you had a bit more of a definition to your meaning for the word progressive in your ongoing dialogue around this idea. Maybe its just semantics but i dont see how money that is meant to disintermediate the state's central control over people isn't anti-thetical entirely to the progressive movement as-is.