People been trying to separate money and state since 1848 🤯
Like John Locke, Warren was an adherent of the doctrine of property in the self. Our complete sovereign autonomy over what we do with our bodies was God-given, but everywhere men were subject to the whims of bosses and governments.
Warren refused to join the abolitionist movement because he believed slavery was only a specific instance of a more general problem of the economic oppression of man by man.
Arguing that money was the primary evil and mode through which our bodies are commercialized, Warren developed a system of ‘time-trading’ for exchanging labour. What is most striking is that he developed this project at almost precisely the same time Proudhon was developing his Bank of the People in Paris (1848), and (it seems) completely independently. Proudhon’s Bank of the People was designed to transform everything, not just labour, into exchangeable specie, thereby democratizing money.
"In particular, the emancipation of the serfs and the emergence of wage labour was, for Tolstoy as for Proudhon, the transformation of slavery, not its abolition."
- Alex Prichard: Anarchism
That's what I've been trying to tell people. Like governments, companies that spend more than they produce in real value ngmi. Might take along time if they don't get rugged, but eventually it will come.
Yeah I still think it's good for bitcoin either way, like Parker said it's all being used to facilitate trade and an open market means everyone can use it how they want.
Gm nostr
Government is like a damn blocking a river from people who need the water downstream.
What's the best thing for the damn to do, disappear. What's the second best thing, become smaller.
The river doesn't need help flowing, it needs less of an obstacle so nature can flow freely.
Intelligence isn't the obstacle, humility is. Pride and laziness are a powerful combination. So many people won't lift a finger to help themselves, they want it for free(stolen).
You've done all you can for them.
Well considering everyone uses one J.P. Morgan mint right now I would say even if there were only 100 mints that would be 100 times better.
But every company or group could run their own, that's the beauty of being on lightning, any amount of mints are interoperable so you don't have to trust any foreign custodian, you can use your own company or community.
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"In particular, the emancipation of the serfs and the emergence of wage labour was, for Tolstoy as for Proudhon, the transformation of slavery, not its abolition." - Alex Prichard: Anarchism