Bitcoin will be seen as a scam, a fad, or some kind of benevolent magic for the rest of our lives.
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In order to understand the value of bitcoin, it requires you to understand the nature of money. To anyone who has taken a long, sober look at the current monetary system, it’s plain to see that it’s among the greatest scams in human history. Central banks have a legal monopoly over the counterfeiting of money. Through monetary policy, they have literally enslaved mankind.
All of us, our parents, and our grandparents have known nothing else. We have literally been born into slavery and are none the wiser. As I’m sure some of you have learned, the denial and cognitive dissonance that surrounds this fact is unbreakable. For this reason, the rise of bitcoin will never make sense to the masses.
As adoption increases and the price rises, those who cannot open their eyes will forever maintain that it’s a scam, a fad, or some kind of benevolent magic. The explosion in prosperity will be counter to everything they know. How could tinkering with the money lead to such widespread and extreme increases in the standard of living? How could such a simple change pull so many out of poverty? How is it that we all need to work far less hours than before?
Even as they adopt it, they will not understand why it is monumentally superior – its extraordinary success relative to fiat cannot simply be explained by “it’s better money”. Why would switching from one digital currency to another digital currency remake the world as we know it? Surely it’s not because bitcoin is a mechanism to escape slavery toward freedom. It must be a scam, or a fad, or magic. Magic will increasingly be the dominant explanation as regular folk FOMO and are compelled to buy in.
The degree to which civilization has been handicapped by fiat cannot be overstated, especially when you consider the exponential increases in productivity brought about by technology. We should be orders of magnitude richer than our parents were at our age, but we’re somehow much poorer. It is because there is a giant, parasitic leach firmly latched onto society that is sucking all the wealth out of our hands and into the hands of the Cantillonaires. These are the politically well-connected and the cartel of banks that make up the Federal Reserve and other central banks. They are firmly responsible for the ever-widening wealth gap and increases in poverty.
Most people will never “get it.” To suppose that the government is not acting in your best interest is wrongthink. It’s heresy. To consider that they have systematically lied to you about the nature of government, that you’ve been indoctrinated since birth, that the media has been their silent partner this whole time, and that they have outright enslaved you and your ancestors.. just forget it. There is no way the public will ever concede this.
The average Joe and Jane can never make sense of bitcoin. To understand its true significance is to understand that you are not free. You are the opposite of free. And they lied to you from day 1. This fact will forever be met with denial and they will maintain this denial to their graves.
As Mark Twain put it, “It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they’ve been fooled.” Maybe that’s why this old r/bitcoin ad was so effective. [“Magic internet money! Join us!”](https://ift.tt/BD2PKgI)
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