I am a progressive, American, nonprofit director, vegan, forever student of sociology, man, husband, etc, and I will be the first one to tell you that #Bitcoin does not belong to any one ideology or group. #Bitcoin is for everyone.
Being a #progressive, I talk and think about Bitcoin from that lens/vantage point, which some may resonate with and some may not, just as anyone else can speak on it from their worldview.
Bitcoin is an open, decentralized ledger; money; a peer-to-peer electronic cash system.
It is also permissionless, money for enemies. Bitcoin does not care.
To say #Bitcoin IS progressive or #Bitcoin IS right wing, is just as silly as saying the internet is right wing or left wing. The same applies to saying #Bitcoin doesn’t “align” with progressive values. It’s absurd.
Bitcoin is neutral money. It is software; code. Bitcoin doesn’t care.
Now, where things get interesting is Bitcoin being used as a tool by people for a variety of reasons. Bitcoin does not inherently make someone or some cause good. But Bitcoin can be used for incredible good. For activists seeking censorship resistant money, or energy providers looking for incentives to build out renewable energy to electrify remote villages in Africa. For the worker looking to save their hard earn wages without it losing purchasing power over time, to the small business owner looking to more easily accept global, borderless payments. Good people doing good things with Bitcoin is what is good. It is an upgrade in every way to our current system of fiat and centrally controlled money.
People using Bitcoin and holding their own private keys gives them incredible power not seen perhaps in the history of humanity.
As more and more people from all walks of life learn about Bitcoin, and bring their diverse perspectives, ideologies, and backgrounds, Bitcoin will continue to look like a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Gone are the days of Bitcoin being an anarcho-capitalist pet-project. This global community will build on top of Bitcoin, create businesses, research collectives, write books, create films, podcasts, events, build communities, etc.
Building toward a world where Bitcoin is baked into every aspect of our day-to-day lives, just as the internet is today. Call me crazy, but this game theory has been playing out for just 15 years now, and look where we already are.
Remember, #Bitcoin is for everyone. If you don’t like that, sorry, the permissionless thing comes with the gig 🧡
I used to think at a minimum, bitcoin is an endorsement of capitalism. But hypothetically, you could be anti capitalist and support bitcoin if only as a way to disrupt the current power hierarchies around the world. Bitcoin is a tool.
I'm curious, do you apply the same logic (that I agree with) to guns or speech?
I'm honored to have the big dogs in the God game begging at my table. But money doesn't make emotional investments or invest in emotional entities. Too much risk in such ventures. Not enough opportunity. - The Bookkeeper, American Gods S2E4
lulzy.
"Well... Bitcoin is absolutely nothing of the sort. Bitcoin doesn't make it easier for anti-capitalists, it makes it harder. Bitcoin doesn't make it easier for anti-corporatists, it makes it harder. Bitcoin especially does not make it easier for socialists, for those people that despise hierarchy and pretend equality : it makes it impossible. Plain impossible.
Bitcoin is the most conservative thing since at least queen Victoria, if not outright Jesus. Bitcoin makes so-called "progressive" tax schemes unworkable. Bitcoin makes any sort of public welfare untenable. Bitcoin makes anyone's pretense of equality with anyone else risible. Bitcoin isn't here to "make communes work", but quite the contrary : it will render communes both inoperable and uninteresting to pretty much everyone. Once it's done tearing away the crap these very people have tacked on to government, once we're back to something a lot more akin to what the slave states had before the Civil War (and that's exactly were we're headed, and that's exactly what that conflict was : a dispute between Big Government and individuals - unfortunately BG won) we'll obviously be in a much better position to grok all this. Retrovision is always 20/20, after all."
http://trilema.com/2012/bitcoin-and-the-poor/
hi Trey, have you heard about the BitcoinIsForEveryone event in Portland Oregon?
I saw the domain and thought of you. BitcoinIsForEveryone.com
MarcGee.
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