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I think bitcoin will finally separate the good debt from the bad debt. It is my personal belief ( as in i don't know of any formal theory ) that debt should onl
by Frogolocalypse 9y ago
I think bitcoin will finally separate the good debt from the bad debt. It is my personal belief ( as in i don't know of any formal theory ) that debt should only be incurred for the use of building a productive asset. That covers completely your business loans argument. In a deflationary currency, this encourages businesses to ensure that productivity increases will have greater returns than savings. Instead, our financial system has encouraged the acquisition of debt for fixed assets. The only thing this has done is bid up the price of those fixed debts with debt, and handed over the money for supporting that system to banks and their owners. In order to stimulate growth in such a system, the only way that you can function is to tax savings. That's what inflation is. What it forces people to do is to invest in increasingly risky assets, because of the loss of their purchasing power. Hence bubble after bubble after bubble. Crisis after crisis after crisis.
Bitcoin will eventually stabilize to an ever appreciating value asset. But what it will allow you to do is save for a house. If you have a business proposal that encourages people to pay you for a good or service, people will invest their savings in it and take on that risk. Banks will instead move back to providing capital to businesses, using savings from people that are willing to invest. Businesses will again focus on productivity increases, because that's how you get access to capital.
I also don't think it is going to be resisted quite as much as people think it will be. People still need to pay their taxes, and that is not going to stop. The main thing it is going to do is prick the bubble of consumer debt, and remove the banking middle-men from that space. That alone is a multi-trillion dollar industry, let alone the annuities that banks own and graft from, from those assets. Removing these people (i.e. banking debt suppliers) from positions of power, by strangling their access to capital, is a justification for bitcoin in its own right. Imagine a world in which banks didn't control governments.
That's the way it is supposed to work i think. It is pure genius.
- emodendroket 9y agoFrankly I think the outcomes of adopting Bitcoin as a legal currency would be wildly different from the picture you're painting.
- Frogolocalypse 9y agoWe are going to find out.
- emodendroket 9y agoProbably not. What basis do you have to think that any government, let alone all of them, are going to adapt it?
- Frogolocalypse 9y agoIt doesn't matter what they do. That's the great thing about bitcoin. No-one is forcing you to use it. If you don't think it suits your requirements, don't use it.
- emodendroket 9y agoThis seems like a non sequitur if we're discussing it being a "legal currency", by which I meant one you pay your taxes in.
- Frogolocalypse 9y agoI have no problem spending in whatever currency, whenever required, for whatever purpose, and keeping my savings in bitcoin.
- bduerst 9y agoThat's dodging the question.
- Frogolocalypse 9y agoHe said : > > What basis do you have to think that any government, let alone all of them, are going to adapt it? I said : > It doesn't matter what they do. They can adopt it, or not adopt it. It makes no difference whatsoever.