https://youtu.be/H37JIKFVp7M
Hans-Hermann Hoppe discusses why internally liberal states tend to be Imperialist powers and how the spirit of Democracy has contributed to the de-civilization in the conduct of war.
More specifically Hoppe explains the rise of the United States to the rank of the world’s foremost Imperial power, as a consequence of the transformation, from the beginnings of an Aristocratic Republic to a mass Democracy, and the role of the United States as an increasingly arrogant war monger. What stands in the way of peace and civilization is above all the state and democracy.
That's literally the same in democracy
https://youtu.be/Wa85VCiL_sM
The useful collective term “we” has enabled an ideological camouflage to be thrown over the reality of political life. If “we are the government,” then anything a government does to an individual is not only just and untyrannical but also “voluntary” on the part of the individual concerned. If the government has incurred a huge public debt which must be paid by taxing one group for the benefit of another, this reality of burden is obscured by saying that “we owe it to ourselves”; if the government conscripts a man, or throws him into jail for dissident opinion, then he is “doing it to himself” and, therefore, nothing untoward has occurred. Under this reasoning, any Jews murdered by the Nazi government were not murdered; instead, they must have “committed suicide,” since they were the government (which was democratically chosen), and, therefore, anything the government did to them was voluntary on their part. One would not think it necessary to belabor this point, and yet the overwhelming bulk of the people hold this fallacy to a greater or lesser degree.
— Murray Rothbard
📓Bitcoin Maximalism in One Lesson
Alternate titles:
📙Economic literacy in one lesson
📙Why Bitcoin is best
📙Why Bitcoin only
I had a blast putting the very condensed presentation together for Bitcoin Alive.
https://youtu.be/AgxixXijMsw?si=ct7P0X5RhqjmURsX
There'll be a longer version (with better slides visuals) soon, so please pipe up with feedback around any concepts or terms that weren't understood or needed further elaboration! Critique away. 👍
How does the proposed change/s make Bitcoin a better money?
What monetary properties are being improved?
Is trust reintroduced anywhere?
What are the trade offs?
Are any monetary properties negatively affected?
Does it impact the rivalrous digital commodity ('asset') itself, or the peer to peer electronic cash system ('the network')?
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