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Britain and the western governments and peoples became infected with parasitic sense of entitlement and lost the ambition and strength of unity and cultural integrity.
It was statism that enabled parasitic individuals to succeed. If feminists had to compete for influence in a free market by providing goods and services, they would have starved. It's the irrationality of the tax code that allowed them to force their morality onto the rest of the country.
80% of the CCP poliburo are trained as engineers.
It doesn't matter whether the ticket to entry is a law degree or an engineering degree. It's still central planning. It's still a system where building things comes second to political scheming, because the engineer who focuses solely on engineering has to take orders from a partisan sellout.
Go back and live/starve in the jungle and get eaten by wolves or marauding tribes who are more organised under stronger leadership than you.
I think you're conflating statism with hierarchy. Just because there's no state doesn't mean hierarchical roles won't exist. They would exist voluntarily with conditions.
Again, not everything needs government subsidies to exist. Only bad things depend on government subsidies.
The British government did not ban the steam engine.
The government lost the fight that time. Marxists lost and capitalists won. The fight is still going with socialists trying to ban nuclear power plants.
Chiese engineers are building the first new nuclear power generator for Britain, because Britan got lazy and fat and decadent and forgot how to build things of value.
Because Britain became socialist. Statism is what drove them to become suicidal.
Individuals are weak and vulnerable.
You mean that 10 weak people can overpower 1 strong person. I get that.
It was only possible to build and exploit the steam engine where you had the legal structures, infrastructure and trading potential that the Great British government put in place.
You're not listening. Whenever someone invents something, the government bans it. If they can't ban it, they tax it. They're not helping.
They didn't invent and build the steam engine and industrial revolution in some backward Congo jungle with no government and the complex structures of civilisation that good government enables and that's why Libertarians are deluded dreamers.
You are the jungle. When one monkey discovers fire, a dozen other monkeys form a government and beat the smart monkey to death. That's how the jungle stays a jungle, and that's you.
The steam engine was invented by a man living in a country where the government organised better than those it was competing with and thus the steam engine delivered superior results for the people of Great Britain.
You're a cargo cult. You see the final product only after the government capitulates to legalizing it. You're ignoring all the decades of struggle where the government was actively obstructing the thing from being built and arresting anyone that dared to work on it.
Look at the history of railroads in the US and you'll see that the government is in attack mode all the time trying to thwart private business from conducting voluntary, productive trade. The government doesn't represent the people of a country. It's a country's absolute worst people gathered in one place, trying to make everyone else as miserable as they are.
Oil and coal would be utterly worthless without capitalism. The steam engine wasn't invented by a government.
Chinas mercantile, autocratic, state capitalism hybrid vigour model
Oh please. Extortion is not new. Taxation is not new. China is rich because it's a large population with a decent IQ. The extortion isn't what made it rich. The extortion made it much poorer than it otherwise would be.
Our standard of living has been improving in material terms for centuries because we have developed and implemented new technologies which increase our comfort and reduce our toil.
Who's this "we"? The last serious improvement in living standards was led by the US private sector in the 1800's. Governments seized control of the financial system in the 1900's, and the result was an absolute mess of death and destruction. And here you are, still playing the statism game in the big 26, after all that.
What is often missing in these discussions is a deeper recognition that money is not simply a neutral measuring stick across time. It is a living system subject to political decisions structural changes and cultural context. Trying to draw a straight line between shillings in 1843 and dollars in 2025 inevitably collapses under the weight of everything that has changed in between.
But that's only because money was politicized by socialists. One Bitcoin still has purchasing power in 2208, so now, money really can be a neutral measuring stick. We fixed the problem.
I think many people just want a single theory that explains everything and they lack the ability to think critically.
That's why we have to share with them the good news of Objectivism. So they can outsource their thinking and donate their money to us instead.
There's no "science." It's a bunch of left-wing activists who need an excuse to fly on a jet. None of these people give a shit about the weather.
You're not understanding how this issue is being debated in the West. Western socialists are demanding prohibitive taxes on all private-sector energy usage. That's why "climate change" shouldn't be taken seriously. It's a hustle.
That's just not how Bitcoin cycles play out.
There is a minority who wants it desperately and they drive the price up amongst themselves without permission from the majority.
Trumps Big Oil sponsored denial of climate change is a massive betrayal of the US people, economy, credibility, power, wealth and prosperity.
Oil is wealth, commie.
Germany is a state-worshipping society that was conquered by neighboring state-worshipping societies. Europe has no concept of an objective reality that transcends what the state decrees.
But it is productive. It's just that it's not productive of a commodity. It's productive of an intangible service. There is a want and a need for what the speculative investor is doing.
Price speculation, or capital allocation, is a productive activity. The investor's individual gain (absent government interference) is still a reflection of the value they've produced for others, the same as any form of income.
Are you saying that because there's no physical labor or physical goods involved, price speculation is unproductive? That's such brainless commie logic.
It's not just a "nice to have" when the alternative is the government ripping you off with a scam token.
Go live somewhere there is no government and report back
You act like it's my fault. The gangs follow me. You don't let me leave.
I separated my money from the state, at least. And my wealth is infinitely safer as a result.
Capitalism is highly dependent upon the state. This is easily demonstrated by the fact that without the state and the rule of law it enables property ownership, contracts and security of people and territory which underpin capitalism are not possible.
To translate that buzzword salad: "Pay me for pointing a gun at you, and in return I'll 'protect' the property I'm now leeching off."
State-sanctioned theft is an attack on rule of law as dictated by man's conscience. The professional agitator who raises the sales tax on gasoline nationwide is a billion times more destructive than the guy who loots only one gas station.
How about all the extortionists of the world just fuck off, and if someone earns money they can keep it?
I don't get it. I give someone $100, they give me 0.001 BTC, and then someone like you comes along demanding $20 for the Somali children because "society." Why?? Enough of the taxation bullshit. I don't care if it's been going on for thousands of years. Enough is enough.
For what? So that Ross Ulbricht can go back to jail?