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 I can see that, by taking a piece from your capital and giving it to everybody else, you can say that everybody has access to free health care and education, even if you can't afford it. It's free because somebody else paid for you (and the state took it's share). In a democracy with "healthy" (surviving) and "educated" (indoctrinated) people, the state raises more treasure through taxes since people produce more.

But this way you are removing the "natural selection", the survival instincts, the ingenuity and the community-help from people. People become more and more weak, poor, lonely and dependant from the state. But people are powerful when given the freedom, the chance.

This top down approach is creating a fragile society for the advantage of the state. Bad things need to be let go, even if it is painful. Otherwise prepare for a big crisis.
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 I can see that, by taking a piece from your capital and giving it to everybody else, you can say that everybody has access to free health care and education, even if you can't afford it. It's free because somebody else paid for you (and the state took it's share). In a democracy with "healthy" (surviving) and "educated" (indoctrinated) people, the state raises more treasure through taxes since people produce more.

But this way you are removing the "natural selection", the survival instincts, the ingenuity and the community-help from people. People become more and more weak, poor, lonely and dependant from the state. But people are powerful when given the chance.

This top down approach is creating a fragile society for the advantage of the state. Bad things need to be let go, even if it is painful. Otherwise prepare for a big crisis. 
 If you would need to recommend your younger self to read one book which would it be?

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 Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
by  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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 Same here! It shifted how I see the world and what I deem important and what not. A breath of fresh air for my mind, really. 
 You say GM, I zap. Simple. 
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 My ah-ah moment was when I watched the whole Saylor-series from @breedlove22  , here the link to the watchlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2jAZ0x9H0bQFY6wIbQfnrnIlqMcSHd6X 
 I have about 3000 sats that I received from zaps. I want to pass this on ⚡️

Sending 100 sats... 
 I'm orange-pilling friends since 2023, I'll use this initiative of yours to be more convincing! 
 In my opinion, humans have pushed centralization to the extremes, not technology per sé. We did it because centralization leads to more control and efficiency, things that humans love. I don't see the link between technology and patriarchy or racism, those existed long before the modern technology boom.
But I agree that we cannot use the centralization-hammer for everything. Funnily, technology is what will allow us to centralise less, so we can enjoy less control by the elite at the cost of a little, actually healthy, inefficiency.
 
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