If you’re confused about how government, war, and banks are connected, read Smedley Butler’s speech, War is a Racket: https://ratical.org/ratville/CAH/warisaracket.html or check out the documentary All Wars Are Bankers’ Wars.
Things seem a bit less overt of late, with economic warfare being the more common approach. Maybe the ideas in The Better Angels of our Nature by Pinker explain why, or maybe the precision of drone strikes just keeps things isolated, contained, and “strategic.”
There’s a meme (shirts, blogs, etc) I’ve been familiar with since I first got into bitcoin which is “bitcoin not bombs.” Many of us are in it for the freedom, to separate the money from the State. Getting financially rewarded for doing so with more purchasing power has been a bonus.
Join us on a grand adventure to create a world we all want to live in. Blockchains and cryptocurrency allow us to build contracts with reliable outcomes eliminating the need to use threats of violence. When the systems of money are uncontrolled and yet still function reliably becuase of physics and math, it makes these threats of violence far more difficult to legitimize and justify in this new paradigm.
What a coincidence! Just today I was planning to publish a post that was precisely about Smedley Butler’s speech "War is a Racket" for the fourth installment of a series of posts that I have been publishing since last week. But I decided that today was not the best time to quote him without first sharing other ideas to consider first. But stay tuned anyway. Because maybe there is still something else to add to what Smedley Butler said in my rants and vision about the future.
Cheers!! :)
War machine has always been to enrich the coffers of some, we can work toward more equal opportunities going forward. Hope blockchain carries the future into a better grand design for all, not a handful.
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There are no winners in wars. Only losers and casualties.
Indeed.
Personally I don't think purely Bitcoin is the answer - especially when the Fed can just print more money to fund war efforts AND demand taxes be paid in USD. I think the real answer is the sorts of things you've been working on... governance. The problem as I see it is that we get a vote every 4 years, really usually between only 2 options, and then for the next 4 years one party tries to do some things and the other party blocks them and the people generally lose out.
If we can set up governance blockchains, smart contracts and DAOs that allow us to vote on as much or as little as we like... with consequences for not fulfilling the task/policy that won the vote, then we can do away with parties and vote for experts in each area.
Have you looked into EdenOS yet? http://edeneos.org/
I've never heard of it before... but it sounds like I might like it... unless you're RickRolling me, which I would probably also enjoy.
The problem, as always, is that we the people probably aren't qualified to make these sorts of decisions, but that's a whole other issue.