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by randomopining 1892 days ago
You're born into a contract with society. If it's purely "your" money, then you should exist outside the protections offered to you by society that is based on a currency anyway.
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Contracts are voluntary agreements. Nobody is born into a contract. The idea of a social contract implies we have a choice: accept the group's rules or be removed and lose group benefits. This is simply not possible.

We are forced to try and change the system from within. The means for doing it vary. Lobbying the government, electing favorable politicians, violent revolution... In current times people can just build technology that implements whatever change they want to see in the world. Technology so powerful it alters the "social contract" whether governments want it or not.

Sure, you can destabilize the contract. Make your own money that has its own pitfalls. Just because it’s more advanced technically doesn’t mean it’s better for a society.

A deflationary currency is actually terrible for a world with population growth. It ensures if you were born earlier you have more wealth.

And I say this with 50% NW in crypto.