ideally the centralized fiat source has enough reserves as backup to account for all future black swans but in practice this buffer is consumed. though perhaps not out of malice. (i.e. maybe like how poor ppl spend b/c otherwise it will be stolen)
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this returns us again to the problem of everyone being paid in equity. when times get tough, capitalist societies tend to hoard their capital instead of releasing it as economic flow. they tend to retreat to their doom bunkers instead of believing in hoomanity
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ironically they often preach abundance but also believe in the power of scarcity through divine resources like gold and bitcoin. their belief in abundance is actually the belief in the power of capital, not real faith in the hooman condition
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when individuals buy btc, thus they are actually strengthening the philosophy of capitalism by owning a piece of a scarce future. they want to be capitalists themself by owning stuff that "Others" cannot lay claim to.
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this sharp distinction between 'my stuff' and 'your stuff' is why: "It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God." holding the idea of possession as a Sacred Value renounces dissolution of self/other boundary
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note that rejecting the idea of possession is just as stupid just as a fully dissolved ego would not know which mouth to feed. the point is to avoid holding it as a Sacred Value, not to be a Rebel with an Oddly Specific Cause
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there is moral anxiety here. socialism rejects the divinity of the individual while capitalism ascends the individual to Literal Divinity. (which is degenerate under a framework of Only God as One True Sovereign)
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in one there are no gods in the other there are only false gods how can one say which is the lesser evil?
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