Imagine the billions or trillions that the banking system extracts from the world in service fees, transfers, interests…all unearned economic rents. Now scatter them back upon the population… preservation of human labor for those that really produced it. This is the power of Bitcoin to improve the welfare of the bankers’ debt slaves.

We’re terrified of public opinion from the moment we’re born, partially due to religious training, partially due to an educational system that is not very interested in educating us. What, really, the rulers want are docile workers, who refuse to have anything to do say about minimum wage or labor unions, and passionate consumers… Gore Vidal History of the National Security State

Who has experience with Simplex Chat for groups?

The central bank was started by bankers, using subversive politics against a public and against a government that would have never accepted a wolf if not shod in sheeps’ clothing

For those who want to understand the insidious role that corporate monopolies play in controlling government decisions and in designing the obliteration of the middle and lower classes, this is your book. Thank you for the recommendation @Freyheid View quoted note →

Intelligent machines replacing workers and creating a deflationary environment was supposed to be great, as it was expected that workers would be able to work less and buy more due to greater efficiency within the system. In reality, those that leverage the capital never made those returns available to the workers, but extracted more profits for themselves while leaving the jobless destitute.

If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. — Malcolm X

Centralization has nothing to do with control over amount. It has to do with control over decisions. In a POS protocol, the man who owns the most, votes the most. Like the dollar

What’s the nicest, most respectful way to tell my crypto-buddy “I told you so?”

I just saw that I can zap myself. Man, I should have been rewarding my thoughtful content long ago!

Dogmatic subscription to any belief, no matter how well-intentioned, will inevitably lead to abuse. The only philosophy to which I am stubbornly committed is that of having an open mind.

FDR’s depression bailout: Social security Minimum wage 15 million Government jobs created Unemployment insurance Biden’s bailouts: 2 trillion for corporations to buy back their own stock and fluff the stock market 25 billion airline bailout Insignificant $1200 checks to the masses Government should be the employer of last resort. Use that tax money to create jobs, not to boost corporate profits.

Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought? In the end we shall make thoughtcrime literally impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it. — George Orwell, 1984

A concise explanation of how the US exports inflation to developing countries. “The… thing about inflation in developing countries … it’s usually the case of external inflation that’s imported when you import food or fuel or whatever resources a particular country has. So, when you look at most developing countries, you realize that the reason they lose their monetary sovereignty is because they have structural economic issues, structural trade deficit issues. And when you zoom in, in most countries, those tend to be two reasons. One is a deficit related to food imports that just don’t have enough food production domestically. So, they have to import food on a systemic basis. And number two, it’s energy or fuel trade deficit related. So, they have to import fuel to fuel their economy. And those are things that, no matter what you do as a central bank, you’re not going to eliminate those structural issues unless, as a country, you start investing in renewable energy so that you don’t have to import fossil fuels anymore. Or you invest in a sustainable agricultural policy so that you have food self-sufficiency. So, if you have that hole in your trade deficit every single year, if you don’t borrow in a foreign currency, as a developing country, if you don’t borrow in dollars or euros, what’s going to happen is that your exchange rate is going to depreciate. And, then, the next morning or the next month, when you as a country try to import food or fuel, you’re going to import it at a higher price. So, you’ll be importing inflation into your domestic economy.” Fadhel Kaboub

The whole idea behind anesthesia and analgesia is to blunt sensation, alter consciousness and minimize discomfort. That’s sports…common television shows…alcohol…collective tradition…nationalism…pride…

“I’m too invested in this gladiator match right now to be concerned with what my rights are” 💯 Distract the people with monetary policy that keeps them laboring ever harder for a dollar that is worth ever less, with aggressively marketed desires that create need, with sports and games that distract them from politics, and with religion which anesthetizes any desire to improve humanity beyond the useless acts of praying and feeling