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Good initiative.
I agree, longer and more nuanced conversations belong on Nostr.
#Meme #Leftism #Socialism
"To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the right of the hearer as well as those of the speaker. It is just as criminal to rob a man of his right to speak and hear as it would be to rob him of his money."
// Frederick Douglas
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Great decision. Better to have non-AI tools for those who have skills or want to develop skills.
Sovereignty starts and ends by being able to create something on your own, without crutches.
"The welfare state reduces a citizen to a client, subordinates them to a bureaucrat, and subjects them to rules that are anti-work, anti-family, anti-opportunity and anti-property."
// Anonymous
#Welfare #State #Socialism
Yes, depending on the situation. I generally prefer to go into specifics since metaphors do not translate perfectly from one domain to another.
Agreed. And we may also divide contests into niches where individuals with similar ability can have a meaningful competition. This makes sense in terms of male vs female boxing as well as different weight classes.
The equality aspect is that everyone is playing by the same rules. When someone needs different rules this encourages the creation of new sport categories.
I also support equality of opportunity. Nobody should be held down and/or prevented from achieving their potential.
The only problem is when "equal opportunity" interpreted as creating an equal starting point for everyone - which is impossible. There is nothing wrong with helping and aiding others to have a better starting point.
Yet the variability in passion, creativity, experience, determination, skill, focus, stamina and ability are so great that equalizing the starting point may inspire some people to cut down the high achievers to achieve some kind of equality utopia.
Example of when equal opportunity becomes harmful:
Yes, they are impossible goals that lead to a central planning tyranny as they are attempted in practice. I'm not sure that there is a practical difference between a goal and a destination thar can't be reached - they both represent a directional vector.
If I tell people that equality of outcomes is my goal, you can expect all kinds of restrictions that cages and incapacitates individual liberties in an attempt to prevent different outcomes. We can also predict that there will be groups of people that are given special privileges. In short: a recipe for totalitarianism under the banner of pretended justice.
Absolutely.
The "equality of outcome" is a lie that cannot be achieved.
Yup.
Since the position is illogocal I suspect that it is often a disingenious concern voiced by envious minds who would rather want their altcoin to have Bitcoin's dominant position as a store of value.
Yet from basic logic we can expect that the hardest money will be popular as a store of value, both for companies and ETF providers.
Those who understand hard money better than others will necessarily accumulate more of it and earlier.
There is no alternate timeline where the hardest money does not become desirable.
If we could restrict and prevent individuals and companies from buying a certain amount of Bitcoin, it wouldn't be an open and fair protocol.
Only under communism is equal outcomes desirable - and it requires totalitarian measures to even aim at approximately achieve such a result.
#Meme #Memes #Philosophy
Bitcoin is the remedy
which Hayek was looking for.
"We must find a new limit for the activities of government, a limit which leaves ample scope for sensible experimentation but which secures the freedom of the individual as the mainspring of all social and political activity."
// Friedrich Hayek
#Quote #Hayek #Friedrich #Bitcoin #Liberty #Austrian #Economics #Free #Markets
Absolutely.
This reminds me of the great series The Colony which was terminated after 2-3 seasons. I was disappointed that there were actual aliens in the story - it would have been a more interesting plot twist if the aliens were just made up in order to lock down the planet.
If we ever hear of an alien invasion, I'm going to assume it's a totalitarian power grab.
"The essential notion of a capitalist society ... is voluntary cooperation, voluntary exchange. The essential notion of a socialist society is force."
// Milton Friedman
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Stephen Ituruka delivering the truth.
"If you love in a country where the government is the largest employer, you live in a centrally planmed economy with vestiges of the free market."
// Stephen Ituruka
#Free #Market #FreeMarket #Austrian #Economics #Central #Planning
With a hard money standard (#Bitcoin) it would be easier to fund. Moneyprinting leads to concrete deserts.
Probably genetics. Diet may have some impact also.
Agreed.
The map also gives a hint about genetics. Less skin melanin means less UV light protection.
