Private property rights can equally be called private property responsibilities. A proprietor is incentivized to take responsibility for the assets he owns to maximize the usefulness and longevity of the rights they bestow upon him.
"Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock and watch him turn it into a garden.
Give a man a 9-year lease on a garden and watch him convert it into a desert.
The magic of property turns sand into gold."
Fiat currency inflation is a violation of private property—the arbitrary movement of wealth from one set of hands to another.
Inflation is a legally enforced injustice; it disincentivizes prudence and triggers a widespread abdication of responsibility among market actors.
Robbed of any reliable means of storing value across time, market actors are disincentivized to think long-term, thereby disintegrating social morality.
The voiceless are most victimized by inflation: the unborn, the poor, and the environment on which its costs are externalized.
In the present, rising prices result in increased scarcity, which incentivizes selfish behavior and social divisiveness, and a widening of the wealth gap as asset prices are artificially pumped.
But as @jordanbpeterson says “opportunity lurks where responsibility has been abdicated.”
Fiat currency inflation is the abdication of responsibility propelling the Bitcoin opportunity along its path to full global money.
#Bitcoin is mankind’s sole salvation from the impending flood of fiat currency: an ark of encrypted energy designed specifically to withstand the coming socioeconomic storms of inflation.
It's time for everyone to get on the damn boat.
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International waters have historically been the greatest geographic safe haven from nation-states. Gamblers, pirates, smugglers, and other sinners seeking to engage in state-condemned activities willingly make use of this ungovernable territory.
This oceanic realm is rife with high degrees of risk, reward, and self-responsibility. But exactly why is maritime law so different from the legal systems operating within terrestrial nation-states?
A thread summarizing "Sovereignism Part 1: Digital Creative Destruction"
My 12-part essay series explores the digital disruption of the nation-state and the subsequent amplification of individual sovereignty during the digital age.
Statism is a system of socioeconomic organization which originated in the Industrial Age. Statism includes all state implementations of capitalism, communism, fascism, and all other state ‑isms; it does not refer to these ideologies in any pure sense.
Statist implementations arose in the 20th century, when the only known mode of sustainable human organization was a top-down, centrally controlled nation-state.
Every law, every social norm, every civil liberty, every human right, every culture: the authority and longevity of socioeconomic order itself is shaped by the one true (meaning, free market selected) sovereignty system active in the world today—gold.
Gold remains the singular dominant money in the world. In the unregulated geopolitical sphere, nation-states go to war over it, fund war with it, and the victors write new laws.
Gold is the call option on all human creativity past and present, since it lays claim to all savings in society. Gold is absolute power.
All socioeconomic systems we think have power are really just derivatives of this ancient golden reservoir of sovereignty.
A quick thread walking through some of my latest piece "Our Most Brilliant Idea" where I explore the nature of ideas, their generative source, and (of course) #Bitcoin
Ideas are the origins of everything we say, do, or make. The purpose of any economy is to generate and share useful ideas through free trade (to achieve what economists call the division of labor or knowledge specialization).
Resultant knowledge encodes the patterns of action we use to etch our imaginations into the world around us. Winning ideas are chosen by the market, only to be widely distributed as material riches, finer manners and morals, and more profound art.
A deficit occurs when any organization—a family, a company, or a government—generates expenses that exceeds its revenues.
Most call this a "net loss," but for governments it is typically called a deficit.
But how can the US government continually spend more than it earns?
Simple: the US government can print more US dollars ("points" as she calls them) to cover its deficit.
US dollars (and all fiat currencies) are simply a claim on the savings of society—redemption certificates for the goods, services, and knowledge generated by productive people.
1/22. In the spirit of independence day weekend, I just published my latest writing: “Masters and Slaves of Money" where we explore why central banking is an institution of time-theft and #Bitcoin is a weapon for peace.
2. In 1776, the US declared its independence from England. For years, the decentralized state network resisted the implementation of a central bank, knowing the evils it had caused in eras past. Today with Bitcoin, people globally are declaring their independence from The Fed.
3. Money is a tool for trading human time. Central banks, the modern-era masters of money, wield this tool as a weapon to steal time and inflict wealth inequality. History shows us that the corruption of monetary systems leads to moral decay, social collapse, and slavery.