IMHO, time is ticking. We have to separate money from the state before they can afford to build out this kind of tech to its natural limit. Feels like it's getting more urgent.

The summer of 2020 should have been like 1848, with a contagious spread of revolutions against lockdowns rather than monarchy. But there was nothing, so instead the horror of lockdowns will become a pleasant memory.

Every nation-state on the planet has discovered that people will acceptextreme oppression, so long as a bogeyman is hyped up enough by every news outlet and every centralized social media platform. Nation-states have learned a lot over the last three years, perhaps more than the last twenty years, about how to reduce freedom with not backlash.

At the beginning of lockdowns in 2020, it seemed that there were beacons of hope for freedom:

None of that happened. Lockdowns went on for months; some for years; people in China are still under lockdown. Various COVID mandates are still in effect all over the world. States are already using their fancy new powers to oppress people over issues that are much older than COVID.

The only beacon of freedom left in this world is Bitcoin. All other beacons have been proven false hope. If Bitcoin doesn't dramatically reduce the size and scope of states, then the future will be bleak for decades at least.