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2 sats \ 3 replies \ @NorthKoreanHostage 4 Jan 2023 \ parent \ on: What are you working on this week? bitcoin
There's all just one big pot where all the tax money goes into.
Plus military programs are very lucrative for a lots of businesses.
Follow the money.
You can't justify spending money on weapons if you never use them. So some people are going to get shot and blown up.
Exactly. Hence the question of why the populous keeps financing things they dont agree, nor give them any profit.
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That's not how the system works. Your expectations are flawed.
"The populous" isn't an entity.
There's individuals organized into sovereign countries. Some more sovereign than others.
Everything has a cost and a benefit. Typically the cost benefit asymmetry of war is enough to be profitable enough for the war profiteers to continue perpetually, regardless of what any individual or individual country does.
In war, the defender will almost always has higher costs than the attacker. So it pays the individuals running the attacking country to attack weaker countries and exploit them.
One of the ways Bitcoin fixes this is that it's harder to pull the wealth of a nation through fiat money when they have Bitcoin as an alternative. El Salvador and the Central African Republic have already figured this out and adopted Bitcoin.
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Either you misunderstood what I said, or I wasn't clear.
I didn't expose any of my expectations.
"The populous" isn't an entity, it's many people or inhabitants of a country afaik, and those are the financiers of a long list of things they don't necessarily agree with.
Anywho, we don't disagree, I'm fully aware of how things go. I'm just trying to say what should be obvious, but apparently it's not. Taxes should be looking like mob theft, then any kindness for the "little one".
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