0 sats \ 6 replies \ @TomK 1 Sep 2023 \ parent \ on: Whatever happened to personal responsibility? bitcoin
Yes right. But if You want to keep power(s) in check You need to empower the individual. Best way we know to do so is by free market capitalism that is based on absolute private property rights.
Would also like to ask. If the best way we know how is completely ineffective. Is it the best way?
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Sorry, I don't get Your question. In my opinion history has proven the collectivistic approach as inhuman and ineffective. Do You refer in this direction?
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You said that our current method is the best way we know how. I'm contesting that anything this broken can be the best of anything except perhaps the best example of a failed and corrupt experiment.
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Do you need to empower the individual? Or do you just need to make the individual feel empowered? The illusion of empowerment is just as good as keeping the masses under control. Only now you haven't given up any real power to keep them that way.
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In the long civilization needs real empowerment of the individual by private property. Short term propaganda and dillusion can be working for sure as well
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Absolutely. But shorttermism is a plague that society has fully caught. I once heard it referred to as "microwave culture" everyone wants everything now and no one wants to wait for results in the long term.
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