Central banking is organized crime. #Bitcoin
One of the greatest illusions of our time is the belief that we live in capitalism; in a system of free markets, honest prices, and open competition. But what we have today is not capitalism. It is its distorted image, a dolled-up corpse that is sold to us as freedom. Precisely those who rail most loudly against capitalism understand its principles the least. They regulate and strangle, create monopolies, lobbying, inequality, and blame the "evil capitalists" when nothing works. We do not live in capitalism, we live in corporatism: a symbiosis of state and corporation, in which laws become commodities. No longer does the consumer decide, but the lobbyist. No longer does innovation rule, but proximity to power. Licenses, subsidies, and patents have replaced competition. Those who play along with the political game win; those who question it lose. The entrepreneur is no longer the creator, but the supplicant. He no longer struggles for customers, but for approvals. And the politician who lets himself be bought calls that "responsibility." Both profit, only the citizen pays the price. This is how the monopolies arise that are blamed on capitalism: not because the market fails, but because it is shackled. Microsoft, Google, BlackRock, they do not live despite regulation, but because of it. They write the laws that build them protective walls. Capitalism is voluntary exchange. Corporatism is institutionalized banditry. Only the state turns success into a privilege and property into a grace right. We do not live in capitalism. We live in an alliance of coercion, lies, and convenience. And as long as people get up in the morning and fear a world without the state and its artificially conjured authority, this problem will not dissolve into thin air. The state is not the guardian of a free market, but its violent suppressor. Source:
Looks like soon it’ll be more dangerous in #mexico to be a shitposter than being a narco. #nostr #freedom
A “free” digital ID for the “right” to work. What could possibly go wrong 😇. #uk #freedom #europe #eu #news
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Free speech cannot be silenced. Truth will not be suppressed. Our hearts will always yearn for purpose. Our minds will never cease imagining a better tomorrow. Our entire being will continue creating… Until our souls are called home. Our children will carry on our work. Don’t fall for the hate. Never back down. #freedom #usa
Only way to win in a rigged game is to stop playing. #bitcoin image
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“Lenin is said to have declared that the best way to destroy the capitalist system was to debauch the currency. By a continuing process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and, while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some. The sight of this arbitrary rearrangement of riches strikes not only at security but [also] at confidence in the equity of the existing distribution of wealth. Those to whom the system brings windfalls, beyond their deserts and even beyond their expectations or desires, become "profiteers," who are the object of the hatred of the bourgeoisie, whom the inflationism has impoverished, not less than of the proletariat. As the inflation proceeds and the real value of the currency fluctuates wildly from month to month, all permanent relations between debtors and creditors, which form the ultimate foundation of capitalism, become so utterly disordered as to be almost meaningless; and the process of wealth-getting degenerates into a gamble and a lottery. Lenin was certainly right. There is no subtler, no surer means of overturning the existing basis of society than to debauch the currency. The process engages all the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner which not one man in a million is able to diagnose.” J.M. Keynes, 1919 #quotes #money #bitcoin
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