THE WORTHINESS OF PEOPLE & MONOPOLY
The following discussion presupposes four bedrock axioms;
1- that freedom, and liberty, for individuals, is the most efficient means for those individuals to achieve their ends;
2- that individuals, if left to their own selfish interests, would pursue abundance and prosperity as their ends, rather than a myriad of other ends, including deprivation, poverty, and misery, for example;
3- that the abundance and prosperity pursued by each individual would bring more abundance and prosperity for every other individual that also has the freedom and liberty to pursue their own selfish ends, and lastly;
4- that classifications of individuals into arbitrary groups is, at best, a useless endeavor, and often times, a grave logical error.
In other words, we take as an axiomatic truth here, at the outset, that monopoly, that arbitrary limitations, although assuredly developed with the best of intentions, that any such limitations on an individuals liberties and freedoms would hinder those individuals ability to most effectively pursue abundance and prosperity for themselves, and that such limitations would be to the detriment of every other individual because of the loss of compounding prosperity and abundance.
For us this is not a matter of opinion, but a matter of fact. It may be that you disagree with this set of axioms, that monopoly does not limit abundance and prosperity for individuals, however, to do so, to disagree would be to fly in the face of all recorded known empirical human history and all known logical deduction. We’re not saying your disagreement is without merit, but that the extraordinary claim would require extraordinary evidence, and to our knowledge is, most certainly, nonexistent.
TOO LONG DIDN’T READ
The following discussion, with the aforementioned four bedrock axioms, concludes the following four mountaintop axioms that complete the mountain range that is The Sanctity of Liberty:
Capitalist entrepreneurs are no different than Collectivist entrepreneurs in that;
both types of entrepreneurs identify a market need, whether real or perceived, and both produce a product to fit that real or perceived need, in order to collect profits from the market for their service of providing their product to the market, and;
both types of entrepreneurs will inevitably attempt to achieve a monopoly position for their various products.
The only differences between the two types of entrepreneurs is that the capitalist entrepreneurs seeking to monopolize their products must first wait until the collectivists have successfully monopolized the monetary market before further products may be monopolized. Only if and until the monetary system is monopolized by the collectivists can the capitalists then monopolize their particular products within the monopolized monetary market.
In order to maintain monopolies, both monetary in the case of the collectivists, or any other type of product monopoly in the case of both the collectivists and the capitalists, the only tool they have available is arbitrary privilege, which takes shape in various legal rhetorical forms; for example legal tender laws, gun free zones, and intellectual property laws, to name a few.
Because all other market monopolies are contingent upon the collectivists ability to monopolize the monetary market with their arbitrary privilege’s, it is incumbent on those that desire a non-monopolized world, by those that understand the bedrock axioms, to purposefully and judiciously undermine all monetary privileges that the ignorant collectivists attempt to wield in their efforts to monopolize the monetary market, with their maligned best of intentions. By forever undermining every attempt by the collectivists to monopolize the monetary markets, we liberty and freedom loving individuals can thrive, into perpetuity with our abundance and prosperity.
THE BRILLIANCE OF BRUTALITY
If there were no brutes roaming the world among us, there would be no need to protect ourselves from them. In other words, there is a symbiotic relationship between the tyrannical brutes of the world that believe everything that they can take is theirs, and the clever considerates of the world that believe in the non aggression principle (NAP). The brutes force the NAP’s to find clever ways to avoid and dispel of the brutes theft of property.
In other words, if the gold was never stolen or rehypothecated by the brutes, if the money in the bank accounts was never fractionally reserved there would not be a need for Bitcoin. In a strange twist of fate, we are all indebted to the tyrannical statist collectivists of the world for trying to always take our property, to monopolize our money, and limit our freedoms and liberties, so that we could divine a form of property that could never be taken. And for this, their brutality has been a brilliant stroke of support and assistance to us otherwise peace loving folk.
Thank you, you ignorant-collectivist-entrepreneurial brutes, seriously. Without your incessant thievery Bitcoin would have never been found, and for that, our gratitude is well deserved.
COLLECTIVIST AND CAPITALIST ENTREPRENEURS
You can and should stop seeing collectivists different from capitalists. They are both nothing more than entrepreneurs. It just so happens that the products the collectivists like to provide are monetary services, social structure services, and violence services. And if you think about it, there are lots of capitalist entrepreneurs that work in these industries, assisting their collectivist counterparts.
Stop being so rigid in your fiat educated thinking. Be like water. Collectivist entrepreneurs have done some great things, and so have the capitalists. But they both always end up in monopoly positions, however, only because they get ahold of the money. Bitcoin fixes this.
But first, let’s applaud the collectivists that got us here…
When a group of people seeking religion with representation, braved the uncharted Atlantic Ocean and established themselves on the east coast of North America in the 1600’s, they embodied the entrepreneurial spirit of the collectivist. Identify a need of the collective; freedom from unjust religion. Identify the customer base; people with shared religious beliefs. Establish a market; the founding of a religious based settlement in the new world.
When a group of people seeking taxation with representation, braved the consequences that their King might attempt to exact upon them, in the 1700’s amongst the colonies of the confederated states of America, they embodied the entrepreneurial spirit of the collectivist. Identify a need of the collective; freedom from unjust taxation. Identify the customer base; people among the young colonies of the confederacy with the same political beliefs. Establish a market; the founding of The Government of The United States of America.
When a group of people seeking inflation with representation, braved the consequences that their states might attempt to exact upon them, in the 2000’s amongst the countries of the world, they embodied the entrepreneurial spirit of the collectivist. Identify a need of the collective; freedom from unjust inflation. Identify the customer base; the youthful hopeful people of the world. Establish a market; the founding of Bitcoin, a globally decentralized peer to peer monetary system.
Throughout history, people have identified an oppressive situation in their lives, and they have risen above the oppression, these collectivists entrepreneurs are not unlike the capitalistic entrepreneurs we think of with regards to innovative technologies like those whom identified other needs and customer bases and established markets. Whether it was Edison and Tesla with their electrical pursuits, Walton and Bezos with their retail goods pursuits, or Lloyd and his insurance pursuits, all entrepreneurs, whether they are attempting to establish a new market in the case of the collectivists, or whether they are attempting to establish a new product within the market in the case of the capitalists, they both preform the same general function in society. Identify a need, identify a customer base, resolve the need for the customer base, and profit from it.
And similarly both the collectivists and the capitalists have a natural tendency to reduce future uncertainty in their entrepreneurial activities. In the case of the collectivists, they aim to achieve a monopoly with their market, which then makes them the oppressor’s. Similarly, capitalist have a natural tendency to aim for a monopoly within the markets that they operate. Notice the subtle difference here though. In order to establish a monopoly position within the markets that they operate, the capitalist requires the collectivists to have achieved a monetary monopoly on the market. Unless and until the collectivists have fixed the rules of the market place, and achieved monopoly, the capitalists are dealing with changing operating rules and rulers. Therefore, only until a collectivist group has attained monopoly can then the various capitalists group attain monopolies for their various products within the collectivists monopolized market.
The two types of monopolistic entrepreneurs are symbiotic in this sense. In other words, so long as the collectivists cannot obtain monopoly in the market, the capitalists also cannot maintain a monopoly.
THE SYMBIOSIS OF THE MONOPOLISTS
Both capitalistic and collectivistic minded entrepreneurs are one in the same. The capitalist is aiming to find a market fit with a customer base. And so is the collectivist.
The only difference is the scope of their product line. In the case of the capitalist it is typically a more narrow scope, a new good or service within the boundaries of the market, whereas in the case of the collectivist it is typically the broadest of scopes, aimed at defining either the boundaries or rules of the market through political, social or economic structures.
In both instances the entrepreneurs begin their aims innocently enough, and well intended, working to solve a perceived detriment within a perceived class of people. And with the best of intentions, after hard fought battles those entrepreneurs that survive the crucible of the market will eventually find themselves attaining the final pinnacle of their success, amassing monopoly positions within their markets.
The capitalists cannot attain their monopolies in the marketplace until and unless the collectivists have first attained their monopoly positions. For upon the collectivists monopoly positions, whom define the terms of the market, the capitalists entrepreneurs can then befriend their collectivist counterparts, across the isle as it were, and diligently work to amass their monopoly positions within their various product lines, within the now defined terms of the market boundaries established by the collectivist entrepreneurs, through clever and insidious “for your safety” and “for the good of the public” and “for the good of the marketplace” regulations.
The first point here to note is that both the capitalists and the collectivists are conducting essentially an identical function, defining a potential customer base, with the ultimate goal of earning a living by satisfying that customer base, and then eventually, through best intentions of customer base satisfaction, establishing a monopoly over their respective customer bases in order to maintain and secure a perennial source of profits for themselves, into perpetuity.
In other words, there is nothing more evil or pernicious here than an innocent toddler fumbling about in the world. These are simply normal people like you or I, simply seeing a need and seeking to solve it. Now, the need may be misguided, it may be fabricated, it may be ill advised, but it is nevertheless a need perceived by BOTH, the entrepreneur, AND their customer base. For if the customer base did not also have this perceived need, the entrepreneur could not sell their product!
This is noted not to absolve sins of the entrepreneurs, but rather a purely logical analysis to demonstrate that some people, whom we refer to as entrepreneurs, simply aim to identify needs among other people, and find solutions for those needs, regardless of whether the needs truly exist or if some other alternative solution would be better. There is a market with a need, and a person with a solution, plain and simple.
That said though, the collectivist entrepreneur is perhaps more significant here because he first must attain the final form as a monopolist through wielding supreme power over the market, which always includes a monopoly on violence, but this is not enough. The collectivist must also attain a monopoly on the currency of the market place, and once this is attained, they’re supremacy rules henceforth as a sort of demigod of the market place, where they play king maker for those most ambitious of capitalists aiming to take monopoly positions over their product lines within the collectivists manipulated market place.
And here once again, some similarity amongst the entrepreneurs of both classes, the singular tool of both the collectivists and the capitalists alike to maintain their monopoly positions is “privilege” which is often translated and implemented into various names more palatable for the masses. For example the use of privilege by the collectivists with regards to their monetary monopoly is counterfeit laws, and legal tender laws. With regards to their monopoly on violence, it is gun safety laws, and gun free zones, or other such nonsense. And in the case of the capitalists, the use of privilege takes the shape and form of patent laws and trademark laws, both of which are part of a vast sea of other arbitrary intellectual property laws.
All of these privileges are of course nothing more than favors granted by the demigod collectivists of the market place for those well behaved anointed capitalist kings of the market. These favors have no grounding in reality and eventually people begin to starve because of them, and even those operating within the realm of the demigod or the kings eventually find their circumstances degrading rapidly.
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
In the podcast series Bitcoin Fixes This, at episode #7: Intellectual Property with Stephan Kinsella, there is a great discussion with Jimmy Song, a prominent Bitcoiner, and Stephan Kinsella, prolific writer and patent attorney, on the monarchist origins of intellectual property, and how it is a tool for monopoly. It’s useful to understand this history. I encourage you to listen to the discussion and understand the pernicious beginnings of “privilege” that runs rampant throughout our monopolized markets today.
THE INEVITABLE COLLAPSE OF MONOPOLY
The brewing trouble inevitably comes to a boil within the monopolized marketplace.
In an effort to keep the unwitting masses at bay and allow the false prophet demigod to maintain their imaginary world, the inevitable finger pointing begins. The collectivists claim they don’t have enough power and that the capitalists have too much power. This is tactic Elizabeth Warren plays very well against the “wealthy capitalists” lol. Once you understand the actual dynamics at play this tactic is rather hilarious given that it is entirely the collectivist monopoly on money and violence who give and take away the monopoly powers of the capitalists. But the masses have no understanding of this and the deception works quite well, but only for a time.
The capitalists eventually see the writing on the walls of the false gods imaginary world and they begin to erode the power of the collectivists by sharing information with the masses about the collectivists mechanism for control. That they control the money and that it is ultimately this monetary control that is causing all the problems for the masses. Which again, is half true. If the capitalist monopolies had never attained privileged positions through patent and other intellectual property monopolies, the food shelves would not be empty, and the masses would have competitive prices, even if the collectivists maintained their money printing campaigns.
The final step in the monopoly doom loop is a customer base that finally sees the hypocrisy in both the collectivists and the capitalists, as nothing more than monopolizing entrepreneurs, and the market place stops working, the money inflates to zero, and society is forced into a reset.
We’ve witnessed this very process with the fall of Argentina's economy over the past three decades and the populist election win by Javier Milei, the neo-collectivist entrepreneur. He is a neo-collectivist because, while he denigrates the Argentine Peso, he holds on a pedestal the US Dollar. He is simply swapping out the old monetary monopoly for a new monetary monopoly in favor of the US Dollar scam. Maybe this is a 4-D chess move by him, that he knows the US interests would never allow an Argentine president openly rallying against the big boss, but maybe not. Time well tell.
Unless or until the masses of the world addresses the real problems of the world, the collectivists monopolists and the capitalists monopolists, not only in Argentine, but in the US and in every other country of the world, with their monopolies on legal tenders and intellectual property weapons of mass destruction, humanity will not know what a free market looks like, and the long term abundance and prosperity it can yield.
But the masses of the world will never address these problems. They haven’t the time, or focus to do so. They spend all their time working for the demigods and the kings of the monopolized market, trying to survive. The only option is to force the masses into a solution that obsoletes the legal tender and intellectual property weapons of mass destruction. And the solution is here.
THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF BITCOIN, THE ANTIDOTE TO MONOPOLY
Bitcoin’s uncensorable and unconfiscatable peer-to-peer nature places it firmly outside of the bounds of the collectivist legal tender laws, and as a monetary asset, the use of this money will erode the value of the collectivists manipulated money, which will in turn undermine their authority, and thereby reduce their size, which will in turn reduce the ability to enforce intellectual property laws, until eventually, the monopolies are all completely broken apart, and bitcoin can then be declared, victorious.
The collectivist and capitalist monopolist entrepreneurs, those that currently control their multitudes of monopolies in food, energy, water, violence, and money, will work tirelessly to maintain their moats. Their strength is in privilege, and this will be, as history has demonstrated 100% of the time, this strength is their weakness. There is much more work required to maintain an arbitrary privilege. If there is a fence, it will be tested, over and over until a break in the fence is found, and the herd of freedom and liberty loving individual will burst through it like a wild stampede. Thinking that they can maintain the fences against the masses is like thinking that human ingenuity will not prevail. It is ultimately an anti-human strategy, and will by definition fail.
With Bitcoin, to grow our strength, to increase our value, all we have to do is nothing, and that is orders of magnitude more easy than doing something, which is what the monopolists must do in order to maintain their arbitrary fences, their privileges.
As Bitcoiners, as proponents of Freedom and Liberty, we have a duty to ourselves to never comply with the capricious short sighted capitalist and collectivist monopolists that use favor as currency. We are a merit loving group, and merit will long outlast the favors that the monopolists play with. Their sanctity holds limits on others. Our sanctity is limitless, and for that reason, we win, every single time, forever.
Laser eyes, until fiat dies.
Go fuck yourselves fiat monopolists, and burn in hell.
Cheers!
All good/great points, but you missed the proverbial elephant in the room. All the good intents of man fall short, and fall into corruption and evil, if he only does what's right in his own eyes. Without God's guidance, and following His way, we will fail. Don't forget God is the Creator. He is also the Creator of justice, righteousness, goodness and Truth. He is also the Creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi was just His vehicle of revelation.