Nope. If you follow every member of each of those religions back enough generations, All of their ancestors ate meat without exceptions

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In the first year after my husband and I bought our house, we kept having the security system’s smoke alarm go off, and it would auto-alert the fire department. A mess, repeatedly.

Literally the same dude would show up, sigh, and be like “you cool?” And I’d be like, “yeah, sorry.”

Eventually I was like… let’s just remove that one. It’s always the problem, it’s too close to the stove. The so-called experts installed it, but from experience it was wrong. So we outed it. Just that one.

And we did, and the problem went away forever. For us and for the firemen.

Sometimes it’s the rules that are the problem. Not the rules’ breaker. Test everything.

This is true, but their avoidance of the medical profession over the last few years certainly saved many of their lives.

Arthur Hayes spitting truth: “But at the end of the day, if you're thinking about why now, why did BlackRock get in their ETF approval in six months and the Winkle Clowns couldn't get one in 10 years? Right? Live in New York. They're both billionaires, both very rich. Why weren't they given one and BlackRock was given one in six months? Well, at the end of the day, you want the same financial institutions to control the wealth that can ultimately be appropriated by the government at the flick of a switch. BlackRock is just another arm of the U.S. government, just the same as any other large Chinese asset managers in the arm of the Chinese government.”

I don’t think the quote captures the deeper meaning of “non-doing” or “non-action” that is referred to throughout the Tao Te Ching. It is about tempering desire while still doing what needs to be done. If you enter a situation with no motive other than to see and understand clearly what is happening, you will not add to the conflict. But if you have a particular goal or motive in mind then you will only make things worse. Like trying to calm water using your hand when all that is needed is to do nothing and the water will calm itself naturally.

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Maybe I'm wrong, I don't know 😔

ot of what you're saying doesn't really make sense. Firstly, the amount of seniorage, which is money debasement, relative to the income tax collected in developed countries is really low. Like, maybe money printing accounts for 10% of tax generated through direct taxes. This can be higher, like maybe 20% in developing countries, or 50% in hyperinflation countries. But in developed countries, it's a really small amount. So you can't really say that governments need to print money to get the country going and cover expenses. And that if the government just raised taxes a little bit more, that would mitigate the need to print money at all. Like, you have to have one or the other. Secondly, no, the government couldn't raise tax effectively if Bitcoin was the standard. Because the transactions would have to be traced, and privacy measures would mean that it would be very difficult to trace Bitcoin to collect tax on it.

Hmmm well you do pay for it by losing buying power, right?

The normal tax also pays for services you use, right?

all the government does is in general for the people. For example care for the homeless is something I haven't used so far, but it's a service I do like.

If the government came out and said: we gonna raise the tax on food and rent 2-7% this year, to pay for roads and police.

(Buying power for everyday items goes down, the items are 2-7% more expensive)

And then they do that every year 😅

People would surely ask why we don't divide the tax burden more on "the rich" or why the services get more expensive all the time.

And then imagine in that situation the people hear that we gave a gazillion dollar to foreign countries. People would be pissed 🙈

But I do agree, government does things we need and needs to raise money for that.

They would still do that if Bitcoin were the only currency on the planet.

Raising the money covertly through inflation is a way to hide the real cost from the voter and I think it impact poor and middle class people disproportionately more.

I think the government would have to scale back and concentrate on things that most people want, like roads, police and national defense, maybe healthcare and schooling, because people wouldn't tolerate expenses they don't agree with.

My point is I don’t know if you can call it a tax if it’s providing services you’re using. Or you can but then you have to admit that you’re getting a lot of government services for free ie all the things I listed.

People call inflation a "hidden tax" because if the circumstances you elaborate.

If the government can't dilute the money, they would have to tax people directly, leading to a lot of questions about the sense of the things they want money for, who should pay more or less of it and so on.

An interesting thing to research in connection to this is the difference between tax revenue and government spending. Good Luck on that path 🫣