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All forms of currency are, at best, playing absolute devil’s advocate, like guns, neutral tools that get a bad rep for the way they’re used. Before I say this, let me say I have stocks, I have crypto, I have money (not a lot, but some) and if you think that makes me a hypocrite I invite you to consider the alternative of having no money: functionally, if not directly - an untimely demise. Hell, even with money, your untimely demise can come about it from what we’re told/forced to spend that money on - we don’t just budget our dollars, we budget our time, our health, and our lives in pursuit of resource accumulation; “I’ll live on McDonald’s and ramen while I save up at this new job” for instance. That said, I am of the firm belief that crypto is the future of money, but not decentralized, if anything, the opposite. Ultra-centralized. State run cryptos, state BACKED cryptos, or even cryptos with little to no gov’t affiliation that merely have their ledgers tracked by the plethora of creepy clandestine intelligence agencies that operate beneath our noses. Do you really think they want the future to be LESS controlled and not more? Handing someone a Benjamin can go completely untraced by the IRS, and remember, as I said in my earlier post
>>61248213 the state, EVEN under the presumption that it’s operating in good faith for the overall moral good of the people that comprise it, must attempt to reach peak efficiency to do so, even at the threat of the life, liberty, and property, of those same people. A peak efficient system will not allow for the “human error” of things like the little actions we all do that “cheat the system” whether it’s a few hundred bucks here or there, or a few million. That itself begs the question of human nature and why we need the state to attempt to regulate us, but I think it proves something more immediate and terrifying beyond that: the state is a separate entity. 1/2
