Yes Jonathan very valid points, sadly money drives wars. The next question I am posing you and your readers though is a difficult one: why money drives war, how can we change that? If there is something fundamentally wrong with the money we use then we need to change the money. Indeed money is the foundation of our society in practical t…
Yes Jonathan very valid points, sadly money drives wars. The next question I am posing you and your readers though is a difficult one: why money drives war, how can we change that? If there is something fundamentally wrong with the money we use then we need to change the money. Indeed money is the foundation of our society in practical terms. This is what we all need in our lives, what we struggle and work for.
Without an honest money we cannot have an honest society. "Honest" money is a money that is not centralized, it is not corrupted, it cannot be controlled by anyone especially by the elites and the powerful interest groups which came to dominate our society exactly for that very reason: because they control the spigots of money. People do not understand how that translates into enormous privileges: "Cantillon" effect for them and debasement and loss of purchasing power (price inflation) for the rest of us, which translates in the enormous and increasing wealth gap.
Unfortunately 99,9% of the population does not understand what money is, its history, why is it that we use the dollar or euro rather than "sea shells" or gold bars, who controls money, who issues that and gains enormous privileges from the issuance at the expenses of the rest of society, what is monetary inflation and how different it is from price inflation and again who gains and who loses.
Why is that important? Because ultimately it is the current corrupted fiat based financial system which perversely enables endless wars and needs ever-increasing amount of leveraged debt to keep the system from falling. Only In a perverted system the destruction of war brings "economic growth" to some.
For those interested in delving into that issue I have tried to explain things in a simple way in the following free articles:
Yes Jonathan very valid points, sadly money drives wars. The next question I am posing you and your readers though is a difficult one: why money drives war, how can we change that? If there is something fundamentally wrong with the money we use then we need to change the money. Indeed money is the foundation of our society in practical terms. This is what we all need in our lives, what we struggle and work for.
Without an honest money we cannot have an honest society. "Honest" money is a money that is not centralized, it is not corrupted, it cannot be controlled by anyone especially by the elites and the powerful interest groups which came to dominate our society exactly for that very reason: because they control the spigots of money. People do not understand how that translates into enormous privileges: "Cantillon" effect for them and debasement and loss of purchasing power (price inflation) for the rest of us, which translates in the enormous and increasing wealth gap.
Unfortunately 99,9% of the population does not understand what money is, its history, why is it that we use the dollar or euro rather than "sea shells" or gold bars, who controls money, who issues that and gains enormous privileges from the issuance at the expenses of the rest of society, what is monetary inflation and how different it is from price inflation and again who gains and who loses.
Why is that important? Because ultimately it is the current corrupted fiat based financial system which perversely enables endless wars and needs ever-increasing amount of leveraged debt to keep the system from falling. Only In a perverted system the destruction of war brings "economic growth" to some.
For those interested in delving into that issue I have tried to explain things in a simple way in the following free articles:
PART I
https://andreleblanc.substack.com/p/will-bitcoin-win-and-foster-a-new
and PART II
https://andreleblanc.substack.com/p/will-bitcoin-win-and-foster-a-new-a13