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The protection of the rights of its citizens, which is the right thing to do, and which results in economic prosperity. What's needed is someone who is long-te
by EarthLaunch 13y ago
The protection of the rights of its citizens, which is the right thing to do, and which results in economic prosperity. What's needed is someone who is long-term greedy, because this is the best way to enable wealth in a country. Who wants to be a Founding Father of the next United States? Who has more power, the leader of a free and prosperous nation, or the ruler of a starving dictatorship?
I'm not saying that Bitcoin is the answer, but that there are awesome reasons why an ambitious country should give its citizens their economic rights.
- sliverstorm 13y agoWhat rights in particular?
- EarthLaunch 13y agoProperty rights; the right to gain, keep, and use material values, like money, based on the right to life. That's taken away when a country controls currency.
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- iamjustin 13y agoWhy would a state choose to give up this control though? It's not often that governments concede previously held abilities.
- EarthLaunch 13y agoThey would have to understand the principle of rights, and that it benefits them (by any good standard) in the long term. In other words, they'd have to know that giving up control would be good for them long-term, and they'd have to want good things for themselves.
- jasonlingx 13y agoLots of states have already given up this control, for a variety of reasons.
- sliverstorm 13y agoHow does fiat currency remove the right to have things?
- EarthLaunch 13y agoIt removes the right to have certain things, such as, money that is in your control.
- sliverstorm 13y agoHow is non-fiat currency more in your control.