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This is absolutely correct. A lot of people on the right, libertarians and the like, of whom I consider myself one, are not understanding that there probably will be a need to create some sort of extra tax for very wealthy people for some sort of UBI. In fact what I think will happen (and in fact is already happening) is, faced with the alternative, a lot of millionaires and billionaires will gladly choose UBI as the solution to maintain their position, and they'll happily contribute to it for some peace. Things are going to get wild. We're heading for revolutionary times. Ignoring this is ignoring reality. Things are going to get wild.

Exactly. We really got give our best and let the world completely rip us apart. There's no alternative.

Wait, what about the thousands of arrested criminals, you don't think that's absolutely fundamental?

https://x.com/APompliano/status/1948499822593356052 This is a great piece of video history I would say. An exchange between Trump and Powell. Trump complaining that the costs of some buildings at the FED have increased, asking Powell if they expect more and then... Powell: "Don't expect them (more costs), we're ready for them. We have a little bit of a reserve that we may use." This is such a symbolic exchange. "We have a little bit of a reserve that we may use" is the understatement of history. ahah Central bankers are incredible! #bitcoin #economics

Or rather that difference between homo sapiens, erectus, habilis, all those different human versions maybe it's more artificial than we thought'

Sure, we agree there too. The question is which action creates the most consented relationships and which creates less. Because like in the Austrian School, the measure/weight of value is subjective. The same has to be true in moral discussions, because true morality is born or discussed in the real world and thus it's always as complex and subjective discussion. I think it's the real politik, utiliarian view vs the purist view, i.e more people having access to a 50% voluntaryist system vs less people having access to a 100% voluntaryist system discussion. It's hard to measure but both are heading in the same direction. This is I think both the purist and real politik people are right and both are necessary, because the measure of necessity/moral value is also subjective by definition.

I understand the message. It's that real politik vs idealism debate. I'm perhaps more on the side of real politik. For me I think I'm more focused in bringing a world that is becoming black everywhere to a more greyer area. Not to so much to create microscopic patches of white that in practice only work for very few people. But both teams are the same, I think it's counter productive when people turn their backs over small details, instead of allying on the big picture and end goal. I don't for example understand Hans Hermann Hoppe rejecting Milei, when he's bringing about a change to millions of people in his own imperfect way. They all want to go in the same direction, there's plenty of ways to work together and find common ground. But it's always important to look at the method, like you're saying, to keep the ideal light in mind. I agree there but you know what I mean also I think.

We don't know how much it'll exacerbate inflation. It has never been tested. And honestly I really can't see how it's more inflationary/distortionary then the current "print to all the elites at the top that will just park it in everybody's real estate that will make you a slave until your dying breath" world. Real estate premium inflation has made everybody slaves to the fiat system. There's nothing more inflationary than having to pay a completely overpriced house for the rest of your life, just because "it's the way it is". The idea that houses should be this expensive is the most inflationary scenario we could have in history. This is the end game of inflation. We've already lost the inflation game. Everybody is a slave to the fiat system just to live in their own house. Actually a UBI is another tool that can solve that inflationary/distortionary problem, because it would inflate that mortgage away. Apart from of course **allowing you to live everywhere, decentralizing the economy overnight**. A UBI allows people to decentralize and live in much lower cost of living locations, drastically reducing the pressure to start a business and decentralizing the economy. This is one of the strongest arguments in my view also, by the way. So yeah the reality is it could be the most productivity mechanism ever invented. My main argument is that it centralizes the debate in more or less UBI, which makes it easier to play in the democratic game. Because the current game is how can you make people vote you. And that's fundamental.

Sure, absolutely agree. Why not both worlds though? Even Saylor is thinking about this I think. He said in another podcast, "there will be two types of people, the ones that own Bitcoin and the ones that will get some Bitcoin from cleverly constructed redistribution nation-state systems." Now, he didn't say UBI, but I wouldn't be surprised if he actually thinks its the way to go. Saylor is pretty libertarian and sharp as an arrow as you know, and he has proved to be the master at getting out of the box. Because I absolutely agree with you, that's my kind of world, a voluntaryist world where all relationships are voluntary. The question really is, do you think people are culturally heading in that direction? I think people are so dependent on government (but like really dependent... it's incredible) that we simply can't move to that free market world without a transitional model, which I think the UBI fits perfectly.

I think governments wouldn't lose importance per se, but politics would. Governments would be more of a logistic layer, simple taking care of UBI redistribution. Because the real battle today is who controls the printer direction. If the printer is directed to everyone **equally** the political battle loses importance. This is why I think UBI is the greatest weapon against socialist and social-democrats, whom I'm personally NOT a fan of at all. Simple because they destroy all reality and genuine production that people do in the free market. The moment you teach people that they can have a UBI, is the moment you remove power from all Government baiters. Race baiters, socialist, social democrats, greens, etc, etc. All the government lobbies we know in the world. If we create a Dividend that cuts from Government and redirects that money to the UBI, that's a way to get the people on our side. If we get the people on our side, we win this "democratic" game.

I think governments will all lose importance in the future, it's just inevitable. That's the direction. UBI and also direct democracy be the only two great innovations in States everywhere. And UBI is fundamental. I'm a libertarian, nothing would bring more joy than to live in a stateless society nonethless realistically speaking I think UBI is the most important tool that a libertarian, free market advocate has to solve the transitional problem of a very Statist and polarized society, to a freer one. UBI basically erradicates the only weapon socialist, social democrats have, the directed printer. UBI makes the printer available **equally** to everyone. It basically has the potential to replace ALL the welfare state. Imagine a UBI that replaces all welfare states, healthcare, education. Just one single UBI, taken from taxes, and the free market creating everything else. That for me is probably the best model we can get.

Adopting Bitcoin is, for the first time, having access to the tools of the wealthy at a very small scale. Hard asset appreciation while simultaneously having substantial liquidity was a thing of wealthy people. Only at that level could you benefit from hard asset appreciation (plenty of highly appreciating real estate, businesses, etc) while being able to access some of that liquidity (sell just one or two houses, etc). Now it's available to everybody. #bitcoin

Yeah, I understand the perspective. Unfortunately very rarely does a top-down authoritarian regime changes itself from the top to the bottom. We can look at for example USSR, it first started to break apart from periphery. To be honest in my view I don't think there will be war or blood. In my view this is USSR 2.0 and now is the time to build parallel societies. Let's build it :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wJr7awWGWAo

Anything that destroys the EU faster is a good thing in my view :D

The monetary and economic reset is undergoing. Trump and Ursula announce trade deal: flat 15% tariff on EU goods. The fiat empire is crumbling down and people still think this is yet another trade war. This is a monetary and economic reset. The US fiat exporting model has ended. And the EU is not ready obviously. #economy #politics #news

Sorry but I just don't get why this guy would sit so close to the fire? :D

Through acts of restraint, attained a bliss beyond measure. The fragrance of Dhamma flowers spread in all directions, All defilements subdued — thus became the Buddha. All defilements subdued — thus became the Buddha. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfg88LtG1jQ Incredible Buddhist inspired song in Sinhala language from Sri Lanka, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinhala_language The world is surprisingly full of beauty sometimes. #music

Ahah, exactly.

Yeah I agree and understand completely. I'm pretty sure we're going to have 10x the countries by the end of the century, due to these new tools. I definitely see what you're seeing, heck I'm even creating a project for that at https://freevillages.org/ for that precisely, but I do think that in the old schol / current nation state games, there will be movements in the UBI direction if of course that nation state wants to maintain some sort of stability. Otherwise it's just going to be division, and that's where I think new nation states will be formed, in that instability. But definitely new nation states will be formed. It's not going to be easy but it's going to be very important. We already live in a Bitcoin world, it's the network that matters, not the country. You and me already live in Jeff Booth's world. The question is how to get real political power (nation-state) and have relationships with the rest of the world.