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The layers of control in the current economy seems boundless. Makes me want to join the goldbugs sometimes. Hard money seems so much simpler and freer. An anony
by njarboe 9y ago
The layers of control in the current economy seems boundless. Makes me want to join the goldbugs sometimes. Hard money seems so much simpler and freer. An anonymous, portable, fungible, hard to counterfeit and inflate, universal account of previous work value. People give it to you when you give them something or a service they want. It seems like a system of the people, by the people, and for the people.
- ovi256 9y agoAnd after a while, maybe we could pool resources together for projects such as infrastructure, bridges, fire stations, that are too expensive for any single person, but from whom we would all benefit! It would be great! We could all give some of our money for these! Let's call this way of doing things government. Oh wait.
- thaumasiotes 9y agoGovernments have operated without fiat currency for a long, long, long, long time.
- njarboe 9y agoWas not criticizing the government in particular, just commenting on one aspect of how monolithic systems over time become inscrutable to the humans that have to use them. See Kafka who lived under the Austro-Hungarian Empire for some famous literary examples.
- solotronics 9y agoIf these characteristics of money are appealing to you check out Bitcoin. Its digital, distributed, decentralized, and impossible to counterfeit which as a programmer and engineer I find incredibly fascinating.
- ceejayoz 9y agoI can't tell if you're being sarcastic or if you genuinely think someone on HN hasn't heard of Bitcoin.