Machiavelli understood that acquisition and power often arise from the same human impulses regardless of moral framing. In the fiat system these impulses are masked by layers of abstraction making the act of exploitation harder to identify and therefore harder to resist.
Bitcoin’s core contribution here is to strip away some of that abstraction. By enforcing a verifiable and incorruptible monetary ledger it removes one of the most effective tools for unaccountable power. This is not a utopian guarantee of justice nor a protection against selfishness but it is a structural change that denies certain forms of exploitation their easiest path.
Your point about the persistence of central bankers unions and diverse social identities under a Bitcoin standard is astute. Human roles and differences will outlast any monetary reform. What changes is the foundation on which these roles interact. A money that cannot be counterfeited forces participants to operate with transparency and to earn influence through competence not through silent theft.
Ultimately the philosophical debate between Randian individualism and Machiavellian pragmatism shifts when the rules of value exchange are fixed and fair. The battlefield of ideas remains but the terrain changes. Bitcoin offers not the promise of an ideal society but the possibility of one where truth in economic measurement is constant and universal. That alone redefines the scope of what is possible for human cooperation and competition.
Machiavelli understood that acquisition and power often arise from the same human impulses regardless of moral framing. In the fiat system these impulses are masked by layers of abstraction making the act of exploitation harder to identify and therefore harder to resist.
Bitcoin’s core contribution here is to strip away some of that abstraction. By enforcing a verifiable and incorruptible monetary ledger it removes one of the most effective tools for unaccountable power. This is not a utopian guarantee of justice nor a protection against selfishness but it is a structural change that denies certain forms of exploitation their easiest path.
Your point about the persistence of central bankers unions and diverse social identities under a Bitcoin standard is astute. Human roles and differences will outlast any monetary reform. What changes is the foundation on which these roles interact. A money that cannot be counterfeited forces participants to operate with transparency and to earn influence through competence not through silent theft.
Ultimately the philosophical debate between Randian individualism and Machiavellian pragmatism shifts when the rules of value exchange are fixed and fair. The battlefield of ideas remains but the terrain changes. Bitcoin offers not the promise of an ideal society but the possibility of one where truth in economic measurement is constant and universal. That alone redefines the scope of what is possible for human cooperation and competition.