Personal Responsibility
Personal responsibility and Bitcoin are often associated with one's custody and management of one's own capital. However, the following text is intended to deal with the individual's responsibility within a society. Bitcoin teaches us to take responsibility for the future.
Personal responsibility is a concept that can help promote a people-oriented society and create a strong foundation for a sustainable future. It is about each individual taking responsibility to take care of their own existence and the community of life that depends on others.
Responsibility improves the way people live together, because each individual sees himself as part of a whole and cares for its well-being. However, such a change must come from the bottom up, that is, from within one's own ranks to take personal responsibility. Each individual plays his or her role in society and his or her responsibility to self and others. In order to create a functional society. Only in this way can personal responsibility actually contribute to the survival and well-being of mankind.
Ownership can help to foster future aspirations in people and enable a sustainable future. By each individual being responsible for their own survival and seeing themselves as part of an interdependent community, motivated behavior is promoted. This leads people to be less inclined to harm others and instead support the well-being of all society members. Through a sense of ownership, we can focus on long-term goals and thus bring about positive change for all.
A Lie Of Responsibility
I would like to give a crude example of how European citizens are being made to believe in their own responsibility in connection with "saving the world".
In most European countries, there are laws regulating the separation of waste for private disposal. This means that it is a criminal offense not to separate household waste correctly before disposal. The whole thing under the premise of environmental protection. However, it is the case that the separated waste is subsequently reunited in the disposal plants, with a few exceptions.
As already described in Part 1, we move at any conceivable time in a construct of laws, regulations and norms. So how do we find our way back to responsibility? My answer: In recognizing the personal benefit of responsibility for each individual.
The Personal Benefit
Have you ever thought about how fire became so extremely successful? Worldwide, until today. No one had to force or legislate people to use fire. No social value system was necessary and no one had to be morally convinced. Man uses fire because it has a benefit for himself as an individual. It is the actual benefit to the individual that makes a discovery, invention or technology successful.
No one has been forced to use the Internet.
No government, no company, and no army has forced people to realize that the Internet is useful. Some needed a little push, others two. But no one today denies the benefits of sending an e-mail of a letter instead of a letter. The Internet is successful because it is useful.
"Every great idea, as soon as it appears, has a tyrannical effect."
(Johann Wolfgang von Goethe)
"Bitcoin is the first time in five thousand years, that we have something better than gold.
And it's not a little bit better, it's significantly better.
It's much rarer. More divisible, more durable. It's much more portable. It's just better."
(Wences Casares)
If we associate the benefits of personal responsibility, with prosperity and wise consumption, we will bring about changes that no state, no government, no corporation, and no army could set in motion.
Maybe I'm too optimistic about what a deflationary sound money can change in people. Maybe I'm not. Let me know what you think, and thanks for reading.