in essence gold/btc (they are philosophically the same) is about distrust in centralized incompetence. there is no right/wrong here. centralization prevents tragedy of the commons but history of communist attempts says "bad idea prolly"
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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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