> Why should I have faith in the government? Because you’re allowed to be this naive on a computer forum on an international network of high-tech computing dev

> Why should I have faith in the government? Because you’re allowed to be this naive on a computer forum on an international network of high-tech computing devices, some of which you own, openly call for economic reforms you don’t understand, and not find yourself up against a wall with seconds to live. That’s why. Your ability to study crypto instead of working a field to feed your family under the watch of rifles, crypto’s entire existence (arguably), the fact that you’re ostensibly literate, the food in your stomach, and countless other secondary concerns that add up to you making this comment right now only happened because you are subject to a government that permitted it and created an existence for you where you can have all of those things. The other side of that wall has guns pointed at it. Note that specifying status quo does not communicate an opinion on it. There are real concerns with every world government. On the other hand, it’s naive young people who assume their comfortable existence is “just the way it is” for everyone universally and their ethnicity and sovereign power has nothing to do with it. You don’t have to trust the government to tell you the truth. You do have to implicitly trust that governments worth paying attention to can, and will, exercise actual power when they consider it necessary and consequently create a free existence where you are allowed to flourish. Those are different things. That’s what “backed by the full faith” means. Not that we trust the government to be honest about who it’s talking to late at night on Snapchat. The world implicitly trusts the Third Fleet. “What has the government done for me?”, you’re essentially asking, on the downstream consequences of a decentralized government command and control network experiment which also happened to feed you your entire economic worldview in a society where limits on education are mostly forgotten, particularly by you.