They have no rational capacity whatsiever.
The idea of intentionally grazing the ear of a person with a bullet, when that person is turning his head every now and then, just to improve the ratings of the leading candidate who is competing against a tragically demented candidate who can't formulate coherent sentences, is absurd.
Well, we know that totalitarians are in charge of Western nations.
If we want to predict the direction of our societies we have to analyse the program code of policies that our nations run by.
The UN Agenda 21 + its next goal post Agenda 2030 reveals how deep the totalitarianism runs, what its aims are and what the program code looks like.
This is why Bitcoin matters. If we lived in a free society we wouldn't need to seek out a liberty solution. Now we have no choice but to avoid a 1984 society or suffer the consequences of central planning.
Weird is absolutely fine.
If a person supports individual rights and property rights then there is a chance for bridgebuilding through common values.
I think it is important to debate the problems of central planning, because nobody can know who will be in charge of a centrally planned system, let's say 10 years ahead.
Whatever interests a person have, those interests may be harmed by a central planning bureaucrat at some point.
Decentralization and free markets allows for competing visions to exist.
Weekend at Bernie's.
Thanl you for sharing Rune.
My apology would have to go to my previous boss in Norway because I spent too much time at work talking to colleagues about Bitcoin, the risks of the mRNA vaccines and my criticism of the U.N. Agenda 21 + 2030. I should have kept those subjects for the breaks only. Still I was efficient and saved the company a lot of $. When we were busy I kept the pedal to the metal and only talked when there was little work.
Several times I adviced a Norwegian colleague that he shouldn't take the mRNA vaccine. He did take it anyway and after his second shot he ended up in hospital and had to stay away from work for 2 weeks with heart problems; "hjertflimmer", i.e. heart arrhythmia. He also said that the hospital staff restarted his heart and they claimed that this was normal. He was the kind of tall, strong farmer guy that had never been sick from work in his life before. Very positive and skilled worker. After that he told me that he agreed with me and would never take the third shot. I hope he is doing ok. Luckily his adult sons had declined the vaccines.
Yup. We must separate objective reality from our perceptions. We don't create reality, but we can interact with it. Error-correction and ethical principles grounded in practicality is necessary. If our map is not aligned with reality, then it is our map that must change.
Income inflation over a 45 year career.
Without any taxes, the lost purchasing power is ~35%
I set the inflation rate to 2% which is the target inflation of central banks. In reality of course, inflation is far higher.
Below I provide the output data for the calculations so that they can be easily verified. A simple for-loop can be used to calculate the inflation percentage, i.e. the loss of purchasing power.
Diagram made in GIMP.
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Well formulared.
Summed up in the slogan:
"Your mind creates reality"
From this misconception, a world of disalignment from reality follows. It is magical thinking, forced upon people in the manner that a central planner forces a square peg through a round hole using a sledgehammer.
Probably is her, I just prefer to verify with my own eyes. But yes, if it's not her, then that would be a lesson for many.
Agreed, great moment.
I'm just confused that I have never seen Stella confirm that this is her Nostr account.
Thank you for the thoughtful response.
I think you are correct that we can't measure someone else's free will, at least not objectively. There is too much that we cannot possibly know about them. Not everything is subject to objective analysis and probing.
Our own abilities can vary drastically over the span of a day. A problem that we are struggling with in the evening may present itself in a completely new light in the morning, in spite of us not having learned anything new from our environment. A fresh vantage point, a rested mind, a new creative consideration, a deeper meditation over a subject.
Returning to the cog-in-the-wheel idea, my thinking is that if we somehow were reduced to being a cog in the wheel, for example via an implanted chip that controlled us, then this would represent the lower end of the spectrum of free will. It wouldn't necessarily be a permanent condition but it demonstrates the spectrum.
When we believe in free will and the chance to have free will, we naturally reject the idea of controlling other people because we respect their sovereign decisionmaking. It would be a crime against humanity to destroy or limit someone else's ability to reason. This is why lobotomy and chemical lobotomy is so abhorrent; it is the destruction or degradation of a person's soul, personality or the sovereign core of their being, depending on how we would phrase that.
I caught myself observing recently that I believe the universe to be mechanistic, but not the mind. We can predict orbits of planets, but we cannot with certainty predict a life trajectory. The mind is sovereign and have the ability to change itself, to rebuild its architecture. Not everyone will have an equal ability to change themselves, and the ability may vary during a lifetime.
I think one problem with denying free will is that it implies a deterministic view of consciousness. It assumes that the mind is merely an output based on inputs. It removes the chances of individual and sovereign decisionmaking.
If we were just the mechanistic result of our inputs, then a tyrant with this belief would have no ethical concerns over changing our inputs, i.e. reprogramming us with new stimuli, in order to produce within us the desired result of that tyrant, disregarding our sovereign minds. Not bothering to convince us that something is correct, but instead to force some belief upon us. I think this is the darker side of viewing the human mind as deterministic; it opens up the floodgates to totalitarianism
Great article by Tyler Curtis criticizing George Bernard Shaw, a Fabian socialist.
Excerpt:
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"If you can’t justify your existence, if you’re not pulling your weight … then clearly, we cannot use the organizations of society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and it can’t be of very much use to you." // George Bernard Shaw, 1931
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Article link:
Interview with Shaw from March 5th, 1931:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Ymi3umIo-sM
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I would establish a voluntary European defence pact, separated from NATO, while simultaneously abolishing the EU, the central banks and any dangerous biological research facilities. Monetary monopoly would need to be eliminated in order to establish a free market and to abolish serfdom under the tax of inflation.
This would allow European nations a path toward sovereignty, economic prosperity, individual liberties, property rights and decentralization while averting the totalitarian impact of the EU upon Europe.
In order to avoid war with Russia the Minsk agreement would need to be upheld as a minimum. Breaking agreements is not conducive to peace.
The establishment probably want bitcoiners being self-quarantined on Nostr-only so that they can rig the elections and implement the U.N. Agenda 2030 without too much noise.
The problem of Nostr is that it will not reach significant cultural/societal impact in many years. What we say here does not have much of an audience - yet.
If I understand you correctly, you are saying that exchanges and potentially ETF providers can increase the supply of paper bitcoin and sell such printed tokens to customers.
I see a couple of problems with this. First, this would become apparent when the company is audited. If they don't own as much bitcoin in reserve as they claim then they would be engaging in fraud. For this to go unnoticed we would need governments collaborating deeply with exchanges.
Secondly, fake paper bitcoin would only be a problem for those that use government-aligned custodians. It seems like it would be self-defeating for governments to undermine the government-aligned custodians where they can easily tax the paper bitcoin.
Since sovereign owners can verify their bitcoin they are not impacted by frauds. You could argue that the exchange rate could be impacted temporarily. This is possible, yet would allow bitcoiners to stack more bitcoin at a cheaper price for a longer period.
2. Yes, bitcoin on exchanges will be impacted by all kinds of taxes. Yet, if governments overplay the taxes then nobody will want to use government custodians, so there's that consideration as well.
Bitcoin in self custody is hard to tax, in spite of KYC regulations. Bitcoin is global and not jurisdictional. If a government seek to tax your bitcoin in a manner you disagree with, you can cross the border and spend your capital (bitcoin) in a better jurisdiction.
This is how game theory plays out: jurisdictions have to compete for capital and skill by offering good conditions of living, low taxes, et cetera.
I wrote a longer piece on game theory and why tainted coins will not work over time:
No, not as a separate calculation.
The function just applies the tax rate that you input at the beginning, so this tax rate is used as the total tax pressure and is applied uniformly over 45 years, so it is a hypithetical average.
If you have figures for the impact of indirect taxes then you can add that to the total tax pressure.
For example, a tax on nuclear, gas or coal energy will drive up the costs of all production, products, services and transports that uses the energy grid. Such a tax should be added to the total tax pressure.
However, it would be complicated to simulate how that tax impacts every day life with cost increases throughout the whole infrastructure.
If you can only save 20% of your income (or less) after tax then this is clearly a situation impacted by inflation, but since living expenses differ from region to region and quality of life is subjective (options differ in cost), it might be impossible to calculate the full impact of inflation. If we earn income in jurisdiction A and then settle in jurisdiction B, this will also matter.
Lifetime tax pressure.
I wrote a short program that roughly calculates the tax pressure over a lifetime, with the impact of inflation on past wages.
Output examples:
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45 years of work
Inflation: 2%
Tax: 30%
Lifetime tax pressure: 54.486 %
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45 years of work
Inflation: 2%
Tax: 0%
Lifetime tax pressure: 34.98 %
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I think this output is interesting because it shows that without any regular taxes, the *minimum* inflation over 45 years of work is equal a ~35% tax pressure.
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45 years of work
Inflation: 2.3%
Tax: 54%
Lifetime tax pressure: 71.817 %
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This output is based on the average tax pressure in Sweden, with an average historical inflation of 2.3% since the Riksbank (central bank) was established in 1668.
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45 years of work
Inflation: 7%
Tax: 0%
Lifetime tax pressure: 71.603 %
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This output is based on a yearly inflation rate of 7%, without any taxes. This is the likely inflation rate we have in the West when we account for asset inflation from government + central bank moneyprinting.
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45 years of work
Inflation: 7%
Tax: 30%
Lifetime tax pressure: 80.122 %
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This is the output of an inflation rate of 7% over 45 years of work, combined with a 30% tax rate.
Conclusion:
Inflation is a significant tax levied by governments and central banks as they expand the monetary supply.
These figures account for cumulative inflation: the savings of year 1 is inflated for 45 years, while the savings of year 40 is inflated for 5 years, etc.
This is not only a theft of income but a grand theft of life and time on this planet.
Bitcoin fixes this by allowing individuals to opt out of the hidden tax of inflation.
Every individual owns themselves and the fruits of their labor. (Paraphrasing John Locke, 1690)
A final consideration is to add living expenses to the calculation. As inflation drives up the cost of living, this also represents a loss of purchasing power. I have left this out so far due to it being difficult to calculate, especially since wages must increase *somewhat* to account for increased costs.
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