0 sats \ 4 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 21h \ parent \ on: Minneapolis Fed's paper on banning Bitcoin to maintain "permanent deficits" bitcoin
There are definitely problems in western liberal democracies.
Democracies depend upon enough citizens being prepared to voluntarily contribute to the process and believe in the process and I accept that willingness to contribute and believe is breaking down.
For me capture of elected representatives by corproate sponsors is a major cause of the cynicism and apathy which is evident.
I see Bitcoin as a significant potential challenge to the corporate sponsors and crony capitalists (bankers), but citizen apathy is another side of the same coin.
Got to go to dinner.
cheers.
reply
You misunderstand- in most democracies you are not forced to participate in the democratic process.
Democracy depends on enough people voluntarily engaging and participating or it becomes more and more operated by a small group of cronies who dominate the process.
This is what has already happened and western liberal democracies show many signs of dying.
You might find what replaces them even less to your liking.
But then it will be too late to easily do much about it.
Ask the majority of people on this planet, who do not live in the liberal western democracies- the developing and third world who live in the scraps we leave them after plundering the best of their resources.
Entitles and naive Libertarians are arguably complicit with handing over global hegemony to China.
reply
reply
I accept the reality of the power structures as they are...not blindly accepting them or totally rejecting them- but working with the reality.
We are all the government.
You think you can live outside the state- I wager one million satoshis you would not last long outside of the structures the state provides you.
Its all empty echo chamber Libertarian bravado.
Go on Alone and see how long you last- I give you 12 hours before you'd be a whimpering wreck begging for a blanket, a hamburger and a coke.
reply