Liberty: Stifled by the Stockholm Syndrome
"Most people don’t have the stomach for an armed revolution unless their government starts shooting at them first. For those conditioned never to pick up a gun, this means surrender.
Fortunately, governments don’t want to obliterate all their constituents: they need their productivity, at least until artificial intelligence gets more viable. Even at their final stage of desperation, which involves forced everything—central bank digital currencies, a bug diet, fifteen-minute cities, perversity as a norm—governments are still finding support. Why?
Welcome to the Stockholm syndrome. People have become psychologically dependent on their rulers, no matter the cost. The alternative is said to be anarchy, and people believe it is a nonsolution, the breakdown of civilization, often seen in war zones—check some recent headlines.
The good and bad news is the government structure that pervades the world—rule by force—is not one that will last. It’s a structure based on theft and debt, and it will eventually collapse.
And that eventuality is imminent. What will happen then?
Most people must make an honest living and are used to solving a full range of problems within a system of voluntary exchange. This is what people must count on—their own ingenuity and their willingness to take responsibility for their actions and work with others, within the framework of a property-rights society. There is no product or service the market can’t provide as long as it’s allowed to do so."
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Humanity may one day view the state's control over money as a stain on history, having enabled violations of rights and abuses of power. More significantly, the very concept of the State will be seen for the modern superstition it is. As people realize that governance can be achieved without coercion, through voluntary cooperation, they may relegate this relic of primitive thinking - the State itself - to obsolescence.
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Value does not exist outside the consciousness of men
- Carl Menger
I don't inherently oppose miners exercising censorship, I simply advocate for free markets. It boils down to respecting property rights, much like many other things. If a miner willingly chooses to censor specific transactions, it's within their rights, and the free market will determine their profitability. Just as individuals can choose whom to invite into their homes or sell goods/services to, miners should have that same autonomy. My concern arises when the government intervenes and forces miners to behave in ways they wouldn't choose voluntarily.
Don't forget manufacturing consent by utilizing crisis events. Each successive crisis creates opportunities for governments to consolidate their powers, often under the guise of protecting its citizens. However, this accretion of authority comes at a profound cost: the gradual relinquishment of fundamental rights and freedoms.
https://mises.org/wire/beyond-crisis-ratchet-effect-and-erosion-liberty
By bending over and asking for regulatory clarity you are failing to meet your obligation as a US citizen to disobey the unjust laws enacted by a vile class.
https://tftc.io/were-at-the-loot-the-treasury-stage-of-empire-collapse/
What if, rather than outright banning Bitcoin, the State could neutralize its disruptive properties by integrating and endorsing it? What if the government could harness Bitcoin's "Number Go Up" (NGU) technology to enforce its objectives and undermine the very ethos that defines Bitcoin today?
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The state is an institution of theft writ large, designed to enrich the ruling class at the expense of the productive individuals within society.
Economics, as a field, is the study of human choices under scarcity. It focuses on analyzing how humans attempt to find solutions to the problem of disparity between what they have and what they want and the consequences of their choices.
As scarcity is a permanent condition of existence, humans are constantly making choices between different courses of action, different goods, and different needs to satisfy. The need to make these choices forces us to juxtapose the utility we derive from different goods against each other, so we are able to make informed choices.
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Value is thus nothing inherent in goods, no property of them, nor an independent thing existing by itself. It is a judgment economizing men make about the importance of the goods at their disposal for the maintenance of their lives and well-being. Hence value does not exist outside the consciousness of men.
-Carl Menger
After a century of aping physics and abandoning classical methodological foundations, economics has failed to produce one quantitative law or formula that can be independently tested and replicated. Macroeconomic equations come and go with the fashions of modern schools of thought, but none of them has been measured objectively and replicated in a way that can allow it to be called a scientific law. That macroeconomics empowers central governments and enriches academics may help explain why it has endured.
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