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[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

decided that the federal reserve is a privately owned bank in 1983.

It ws always a corporation and chartered as such, of course, unconstitutionally.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (23 children)

Soft gold overcomes hard steel, but it's still weaker. If it dares to start a fight, it will get cut.

The value of currency is supported by our faith, and our faith is fed by the mystery. Money created through an obscure process are more valuable.

Remember, no business has a right for guaranteed profit. Banks are no exception. The cancellation of debt is a normal business practice that is, at times, inevitable.

Debt isn't property, it's a contract. Its cancellation is not nationalization.

[–]HibikiBlackCaudillo[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Huh, right... This seems like non-sensical nihilism at best. Money created through an obscure process... Really?

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

If some random Bob were to print some new money and try to exchange it for resources, no reasonable person would comply. Because this Bob can just keep printing money and concentrating resources, while everyone else has to work. If this Bob were to find a big stick, he could force some smaller Bobs to use his money. But on the international market, his money would still be next to worthless. Because everyone knows that Bob can keep making money whenever he wants.

This is where all these complicated systems, processes and agreements come into play. They create an appearance that Bob can't arbitrarily print money. Obviously, he still can, he has the printer. What he doesn't have, is the biggest stick. This stick is owned by the government. And Bob will either do whatever the government tells him, or he will be bopped and replaced. By a more obedient Bob.

[–]C3P0 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Null argument.

That is exactly what Satoshi did. He created money (bitcoin). A thousand others have done the same thing, and guess what? Their currencies have real world value in the billions (USD).

Not just electronic currencies either. If an individual had the capital and skills to create a piece of cloth (read: money) so intricate that no one else could copy it, it would be worth money too. Sorry, printing a doll-hair on your Ink-Jet isn't worth the paper it's printed on.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

The creation of new bitcoins has restrictions, Satoshi can't just print unlimited bitcoins and buy everything.

[–]C3P0 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You can make your own bitcoin where you can have an infinite amount if you'd like.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

An infinite amount of your bitcoins, yes. An infinite amount of wealth, no.

Unless you can trick everyone into thinking that your amount is limited, your bitcoins are worthless.

The only exception to this is when you can back up your infinite digital money with some infinite digital goods.

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

*Satoshi

= NSA

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Silver ONLY. Gold is easily corrupted and that is exactly what the new currency entails; a gold backed SDR.

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (14 children)

But Mathematically Perfected Economy would be the best bet if we didn't have a bunch of corrupt congressmen and women.

In that way, even a digital currency would work.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (13 children)

Everyone needs to eat, drink and sleep, that's true. But once these basic needs are met, the economy becomes much less predictable. The desire for less essential goods is decided by one's culture and biology. These two things are unique in almost everyone.

I've used "less essential" instead of "luxury" because there are people who, when prevented from moving towards their dreams, can become uncontrollably violent or even literally self-destroy.

[–]Jesus 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (12 children)

Belloc's distributionalism is an interesting system. It allows every man to have his property and home.

The problem today is that 25% of children are homeless. Land speculators are big problem.

Some dreams can be self-destructive or destructive to others around you or those who you've never met.

I agree, there. That's why I wish we see a revitalization of Christianity and followes of "The Way", in the west.

Radical Individualism is destroying the US from within. It's a consumeristic, materialistic mostly godless country and certainly politics do not help.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 3 fun1 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 3 fun -  (11 children)

Distributists do have some wisdom. Humans are animals, not computers. Without natural reinforcement, there would be no mental growth. The main limiting factor for capitalism, has always been in the number of capitalists.

Radical individualism is when you know what you want and work to get it. Sages and Buddhas are the perfect individualists. Nothing in the world can change their course. Those who allow for marketing and propaganda to pollute their minds, are just low collectivists. Those controlled by their own fears and addictions, are in the center.

Land speculators, as in states? The rationalization behind their madness, sadly, does make sense. Without regulating land usage, there is bond to be at least one psychopath to try and buy all the land. No perfect solutions here. And no, the minimum pocket money laws won't help.

All people have dreams, we are born this way. And while death is a relatively rare outcome, different mental illnesses are extremely common for the suppressed.

Christianity spreads fast among those tired of war, I think. The world moves in cycles, you can't reverse the flow of time.

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (10 children)

To avoid radical individualism, individual people must choose not to be selfish. Free people must freely choose "a focus on families, clans, and community", or the needy and less fortunate, rather than "me culture" which plagues the west.

THERE IS ONLY ONE MARKET WITH PERFECT COMPETITION: the labor market. Each worker is pit against all the other workers (in a geographical area, within a sphere of competence) for which one will do more for less. As a result of this, people create more and more value and are paid less and less. WHERE DO YOU THINK the massive inequality and iniquity in the current economy comes from?

https://www.advisorperspectives.com/images/content_image/data/07/07ff29d2e2e637e5c74515d2282051bc.png

$48,000 to $63,500 in 60 years. Not very much, correct? Now realize that BACK IN 1967, ONLY ONE PERSON PER HOUSEHOLD WORKED. In 2019, there are almost two income earners per household, so in reality, INCOME IS GOING DOWN. And that's adjusted for OFFICIAL INFLATION NUMBERS

In the long run, radical individualism among gentiles and the fragmentation of gentile culture offer a superior environment for Judaism, corporatism, parasitism, and Freemasonry as a group evolutionary strategy.

One must consider the demoralization of the west; egocentrically destroying traditionalism via radical individualism, which has particularly plagued western millennial thought.

Christians, particularly the existentialist ones, isolate themselves from the world, preventing themselves from proclaiming "The Way," to teach and preach to all Yeshua's instructions of a rightful living in discipleship, ie. a disciplined , Christly way of living.That isolation is one cause in an evident falling away from Yeshua's instructions, the other is a division in Christendom that, willingly or unwillingly, bastardizes Yeshua's teachings.

A churchgoer in a church hierarchy, levitical in its structure and pre-occupied with worldly affairs, was never an obligatory rite for one to sustain, let alone obtain his or her salvation in Christ. Following "The Way" as Christ's disciple could be in the quite of day, unknown to all of Christendom; no name, no saintly epithet and determined every step of the way—sustained in discipleship.

Why then is a mere churchgoer isolated from the world, whilst the wandering disciple with only his cloths and money bag is not?

The world is God's creation but not his thrown, and to willingly isolate yourself from the ailing and needy of this world by the schedule of mere churchgoing is certainly far from the teaching's of Yeshua that were intended to be followed in discipline. But are not our paths in faith subjective? That faith proceeds works and faith leads the way towards works of love, whether it be the wanderer who aids the needy and sick or the churchgoer who does the equivalent? Faith without works is dead. With faith, undivided, non-preferential works of love become a daily occurrence. The mere churchgoer, in his solitude, being of and in this world, only sees glimpses of what Christ has to offer. He is therefore of the world but far from what God intended for him to do through Christ as messenger. That is to renounce the world and everything in it. If one walks through life in faith to God, surrounded by a world full of vultures, he might feel vulnerable, but grace in its simplicity will lead the initiate to his purpose, a purpose which is not individualistic or worldly but Godly, ie. becoming a living sacrifice.

The World needs saving. To isolate yourself from all of God's creation is to abstain yourself from following His instructions through renouncing the world and everything in it. It is God that instructs, true faith that sets the process forward.

Likewise, to alllow yourself to fall into the depths of the schedule of an institution, is to fall from grace; to isolate yourself from God's people. Those needy and sick who need nothing more than for someone to deny himself and the institutions he was raised, to take up his cross and follow Yeshua's instructions in faith as a living sacrifice to God.

A church is oftentimes corrupted, infiltrated and hijacked by worldly pleasures of the flesh; one cannot help then but speak of this apostasy in Christendom. The priests caught molesting underage boys and girls had covered up their apostasy, pinning their guilt on their victims. A "false memory syndrome" devolved in ungodly scientism and psychiatry; these weak, tired and traumatized victims living with such a burden, now blamed themselves for what someone else did. No man could comprehend such trauma, lest he experienced that trauma for himself.

The homosexual community of whom for the most part, are genuinly nice people (whatever one wishes to think of their ungodly lifestyle) appear to have a small subset within their population that molests underage boys at a frequency far greater than heterosexual molestation of young girls based on pop. per capita. That is, if you were to line up 11 heterosexuals, their would be a probability of one in those eleven that would be a sexual molester. If you lined up just one homosexual, he would have 5 victims!

Thus, Illustrating here, that there appears to be a fervent, pederast population within the homosexual community of whom molest underage boys at an unprecendent rate. Why do I speak of this?

Because, likewise, there appears to be a small subset community within Christendom and Judaism, behaving far from the values and principles of these religious institutions; conniving and corrupted in worldly desires they behave.

The New Rome.

The Manifesto‘s Marx, with his call to proletarians of the world to unite and destroy the bourgeois foundation of European nations (religion, family, property) is like Moses federating bands of uprooted migrants and lead them to the plunder of the cananean cities, and is like the prophets calling for the destruction of the nations.

What I find fascinating are the direct parallels between Capitalism and Communism, with only the rare exception, on virtually every point. These are ultimately complimentary systems.

Capitalism was (and is) to the revolutionary United States what Communism was to the revolutionary Soviet Union.

Not surprisingly, in that light, the hyper-Capitalist New Rome book of 1853, like the Communist Manifesto of 1848, also strongly attacks nationality, but from an artificial "radicalist" individualist (rather than an artificial collectivist) perspective.

The Capitalist attack upon Europe, and European peoples, is particularly emphasized in the New Rome.

And for that reason among its prescient authorship should be read.

‘…It is the duty of the American party to combat all European traditions which are incompatible with Americanism; but, above all, that of nationality. To vindicate individualism against nationality, is the office of America.’

The New Rome (1853) – pg 70 – 71

The [1776 Capitalist American] revolution is the offspring of the only people which is not a nation. A gathering of all the exiles of the world -and an exile is a man deprived of his nationality, rejected by his nation- an assemblage whose spring of action was disgust at the national cruelties which they had fled; a convocation from all the corners of the world for conscience sake, for the preservation of this individual sovereignty against the encroachments of national traditions; a horde of emigrants who knew nationality in the guise of national poverty; America was, by force of circumstances, the rendezvous of all to whom nationality had been the source of all their sufferings.

(cont...)

Nations, we have seen, are unions based upon community of speech; this the Americans renounced, in favor of a union based upon a unity of thought; and thus fell nationality, and arose the republic. The native Americans partly have been forced to doff the European part of their title; and they have done wisely. It is the duty of the American party to combat all European traditions which are incompatible with Americanism; but, above all, that of nationality. To vindicate individualism against nationality, is the office of America. This is, at the same time, the whole force and scope of the revolution; thus, the revolution which arose in and with America, must for ever return to it; and America, which began in revolution, must live in it, and end with it. When the dominion of nationality is crushed, and the sovereignty of the individual is attained, everywhere and everyhow, the missions of the [Capitalist] revolution and of America will both be accomplished.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (9 children)

And what is wealth? Your money? Your lands and things?
The profit some speculate expects to extract by wearing your name and skin?
An arbitrary number assigned by a bureaucrat to ensure your taxes are fair?
A result of new, occult and groundless market math?
Only some of these can be reasonable and acceptable, yet all of them are practiced.

 

Capitalism is a simple system.
You own what you own.
You can decide what to do with what you own.
Your government is obliged to not steal, and to prevent others from stealing what you own.
It naturally comes from individualism, since with no choice, you have no freedom.
Capitalism is better than communism because even its corrupt and distorted forms are extremely profitable.

 

People become benevolent when their natural needs are met.
Stop oppressing the poor to help the poor. This is the road to madness.

 

Just like an infinite amount of money makes it worthless, an infinite supply of labor would make it worthless.
Unless it's backed by an infinite supply of capitalists.
People have brains, organizations are mindless.

 

To master the mind, you need to understand it. Faith can help, but can't be forced.
Like how mind is the natural result of life, freedom is the natural result of mind.
We shall become immortal and fly, you can't stop it.

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You're writing cryptically.

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (7 children)

Wealth is what you produce as a human being and what you provide for others, whether love or necessities others need for their livelihood.

Capitalism does not have safety nets. Those are human made to curb the human condition of greed.

Sure, the effect of Christianity can lead to a lowly capitalistic system but Christianity is not capitalism, and capitalism is not bad nor good. It is the human condition and the lack of morals that can breed all kinds of troubles within such a system.

[–][deleted] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

People build safety nets. For themselves, for their families, for their allies. When they have resources and aren't crazy.

Capitalism makes the war over differences unnecessary. You do your thing, others do their thing. If can trade, good. The market grows.

The goal of the mind is simple. To find pleasure, to avoid pain. There are ways that can help. There are ways that can't work. Christianity can mean both.

[–]Jesus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Safety nets that beneift the common person and not parasites and greedy people.

THEIR economy is one of scarcity and that is why capitalism as it is today, centralized under a monetary policy that provides for one status or class, is a big issue that need sto be fixed.

To find pleasure, to avoid pain.

No, it is to find faith in God and do His will.