Roughly speaking, it's not quite that straightforward...
Now you just use / buy / rent someone elses.
Because it works & has been since before some of our ancestors were playing a smaller version of it.
It was a little more obvious in hindsight then, when you consider the figurehead had a far tinier force at their disposal than the "supporters" did.
Because it works & has been since before some of our ancestors were playing a smaller version of it.
I'd be far more concerned about the smarter of "our own" (they really aren't), those that don't manage to get themselves caught on record every few months & their favourite play toys... that often do...
And most will be oblivious to the imposition or where it came from.
Heh, the real dictators aren't the one right in front of your eyes with millions, they are pulling strings behind the scenes with billions.
Or it's a scare tactic to get people to sell...
If you want to really learn:
Nick Szabo's blog, indispensable:
https://unenumerated.blogspot.com/
And one of his best essays on the origin of money:
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/library/shelling-out/
Mircea Popescu's blog:
The Unabomber Manifesto: Industrial Society and Its Future
If you are able to read it all and reflect, I assure you that you will be a new man.
Like I said, it's a war, just not the upfront shooting kind.
Without causing the "pitchforks" to come out.
And to dissuade you from using them in the first place with propaganda.
The current strategy is to deanonymize real asset holdings & "tax" the value of them & send the goons if you don't comply.
When you are defending against an enemy you must anticipate their strategies & tactics, you don't fight the last war but you don't forget or ignore it either.
Well, turning it into a "survival necessity" is the first step to all kinds of legislative insanity.
Wants aren't needs & "positive rights" are no such thing.
Well, turning it into a "survival necessity" is the first step to all kinds of legislative insanity.
This BS where the left tries to equate it with actual survival necessities like oxygen or water is irritating, it clearly isn't.
This focusing on a particular method to the exclusion of others is how you get the idiocy of legal loopholes, it's perfectly clear to everyone else that something is theft but the law doesn't recognise same.