Jeff Swann @Jeff Swann - 8mo
Technology isn't politically neutral & people respond to incentives: Even the dumbest socialist will call for things they don't like to be taxed. But they fail to apply the same logic when it comes to taxing productivity. Greedy & wishful thinking seems to allow them to cling to the idea that intelligent & productive people won't change their behavior if they are punished for being productive. The effort to socialize the insurance system in the US is a decent example. The goal is to charge the healthy more in order to reduce the cost of being unhealthy. When my premiums quintupled I dropped my insurance & closed my bank accounts to avoid the fines. I had no desire to contribute to a system that was going to charge me more for being healthy. Using cash & bitcoin I was able to function just as well with no bank account. There has long been a push to eliminate cash, & to favor large corporations over small businesses, because all political parasites know that they have to reduce people's options in order to extract more from them. Bitcoin undermines all of that. Bitcoin creates an incentive to break all of their rules, & defy all of their regulations, in order to produce the best that you can, to trade for the hardest money ever created. The fact that bitcoin transactions cannot be censored makes it a tool of liberation. "Universal" healthcare programs are dead. "Universal" basic income (#UBI) is dead. #Socialism is ultimately dead. #Bitcoin kills them. #GunControl is dead. 3d printing & small scale manufacturing tools have killed it. #HateSpeech laws are ultimately dead, because #Nostr & #Keet will kill them. #Technology is not politically neutral. Better tech tends to favor individual #liberty & #freedom. #Humanity thrives to the degree that the desires of power hungry fools can be made irrelevant by technology.
