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21 Stackage 🦡 | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +7 
 "Statist bitcoiner" is an oxymoron, and on a long enough time horizon, statists and feudalist LARPers will hand their private keys over to governments and corporations. Bitcoin's game theory obviates the existence of a ruling class
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pavle | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 As long as there are tank and drone factories, whoever controls them is going to be the ruling class. I don't see how bitcoin will replace tank factories.
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Hazey | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The economics of destruction are very expensive on a bitcoin standard. The reach of violence is also diminished when the greatest asset is not physical.
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pavle | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Economy is only a part of the story, real power exists independent of the economics.
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Hazey | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 The real power you refer to is called a money printer.
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pavle | 4 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 No, it's called guns and gunpowder.