Violence, Tax, Inflation, Time

"When weapons or tools of production can be effectively hoarded or monopolized, they tend to centralize power." - James Dale Davidson, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

Governments have a monopoly on violence. 

"Violence is the ultimate boundary force on behavior; this, if you can understand how the logic of violence will change, you can usefully predict where people will be dropping or picking up the equivalent of one-hundred-dollar bills in the future." - James Dale Davidson, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

Tax is latin for 'take'. Governments take money that you earned. This is not voluntary, or part of a social contract. Try not paying your taxes, and you will witness the government threaten violence, force, imprisonment, all in an effort to change your behavior.

"In almost every competitive area, including most of the world’s multitrillion-dollar investment activity, the migration of transactions into cyberspace will be driven by an almost hydraulic pressure—the impetus to avoid predatory taxation, including the tax that inflation places upon everyone who holds his wealth in a national currency." - James Dale Davidson, The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age

Inflation is the worst tax of all, because it is a deceitful betrayal of the trust placed in government institutions.

When you work you trade your time for a fraction of an indeterminable amount of infinitely inflatable monopoly money. 

By contrast, Bitcoin is a peaceful voluntary currency with a predetermined inflation schedule enforced by consensus of participants of the network. You can opt in to it, and opt out of the money forced upon you. Even if only some participate in this rejection, it will change society and culture.

Bitcoin gives you the freedom to trade your finite time for a fraction of a finite amount of money.

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