"Social Justice" will be achieved when everyone is free to govern their own affairs without violent interference and cooperation between individuals and groups of any size is voluntary rather than coerced. I don't expect to see this state of affairs come into existence at any point during my lifetime.

Bureaucracy is the art of making the possible impossible

The Russians love their children, too.

As do the Chinese and the Iranians, they're not responsible for what their governments do, and neither are we for ours.

Thanks, Tracking Token Disrespector, if only I could figure out how to send zaps KYC-free, you'd get a boatload of them 😄

By funding, developing, and releasing into the wild insects that genetically alter the humans they bite, I think Bill Gates is the greatest terrorist threat the Western world has faced since the Mongol invasions.

https://youtu.be/pAU-_y-WRFY?si=6nF2txDm7N0fJKxs

To paraphrase Mises, almost any amount of money is sufficient to serve as an economy's fiduciary medium.

A tremendously precise carpet bombing indeed.

I'm fairly certain the same thing is happening with purchasing power measured in fiat as well, just hidden under inflation and wellfare. Still, while most employers pay salaries in fiat (most people work regular jobs, unfortunately), there is a case for not spending your BTC on goods and services. Apparently Mr. Gresham was onto something.

Rest assured, though, that all my services will always be payable in bitcoin!

He's complaining about the mess under which he now has to suffer. Voters have not created it, voting against it means nothing at all.

Have you ever been to a place of total public humiliation? It's quite remarkable indeed.

I was going to make an argument against central planning but they beat me to the punch.

I think if elections weren't manipulated, voting for socialism would violate the principle of non-aggression.

It's become the present in China, or so I hear.

The road to being considered an expert because people gladly heed your advice is long and arduous.

The road to making people obey your command because you have been declared an expert is short and violent.

An "elected representative" represents the interests of those who financed his campaign aiming to convince voters their interests would be represented if he was elected.

The political Left and Right will continue to be at each other's throats as long as the various branches of government can be used as a cudgel in that pursuit. Two entirely feasible solutions are devolution and secession, I recommend a combination of both.

Bitcoiners all over the world have embarked upon the momentous journey to invert Gresham's Law and have good money drive out bad. Godspeed.

I foresee a future in which I'm up one motivating story and down a bunch of sats.

There is no honour in being a communist, or any other form of collectivist, most of the time it's in fact the opposite.

Unfortunately, land is also way easier to confiscate, regulate, or intrude upon, and binds you to a certain spot on the planet, at least to a certain degree. Now, I'm all in favour of buying and owning the family farm but it is just so hard to find the right place for it.