Is the presence of options and futures really compatible with the idea of a free market? 🤔

Weirdest attempt to orange pill last night. Literally agreeing with what I say right to last minute and then saying "its interesting to meet someone I disagree with on everything." Just could see beyond "only the state can deal with societal issues, they're too big" Statism, centralisation and dependency infrastructures are mind viruses in UK that create extreme mental model barriers. Fascinating human psychology. Even trying first principles with basic logic seems to be unconciously pushed back against. How can so many people lose faith in individual endeavour and collaboration. Bizarre

GM! After many conversations in uk, seems main concern about using bitcoin is capital gains tax. Who’s building the screw government circular economy with self custody here?