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**Bitcoin doesn't fix this** because buying Bitcoin merely pumps the bags of the tiny number of super-rich people who already own almost all of the Bitcoin and also already own almost all of the assets (that they can leverage to force you to give them your Bitcoin). Bitcoin was designed to protect against the money printers emitting more money, not against oligarchs buying up the entire globe. Before moving on to buying up the moon, Mars, the asteroids...

For years, I have been asking for an economic argument to counter this, but I have not yet heard one. Just a lot of personal insults and hysterics and awkward silence. Or economically-daft mentions of the two American Gold Ages, which were a massive windfall to the local population caused by conquering half a continent (First, North America, then Western Europe. I suppose bombing the Middle East is supposed to be the next source of windfall profits for US citizens. 😏) And where are those Pioneer Progeny, now? Working for low wages, paying rent or mortgage, and preparing for the next round of layoffs, probably.

You know what the super-rich are currently doing with their assets, including Bitcoin? They are leveraging them to AI-everything and fire all of the workers. They then expect the bankrupt governments to borrow money _from them_ (Nobody else has any money!), to give the workers UBI. And then _pay them interest on that borrowed money_, that the governments have to press out of the workers and small businesses in income taxes, sales taxes, and taxes on owner-occupied homes. Devouring their UBI pittance by padding consumption prices. But that is the retarded system we already have, just even bigger. And it only applies to their own residents, while crushing the rest of the world.

No, **you have to stop them from buying more assets and raise the number of people who own assets, not borrow more money from them**.

https://youtube.com/shorts/uMe_j2rr850
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Diacone Frost · 2w
Bitcoin is not a solution to oligarchy. No money can be. It is a constraint on monetary manipulation as a source of oligarchy. Wealth concentration without coercion is not a systemic failure and the ability to “buy everything” is limited by market dynamics (and absence of state privilege). Perm...
S!ayer · 2w
Raising the number of people on fixed assets is it's own bottleneck. Fixed supply is a gift and a curse. It's just fundamental economic principle. Very hard to get funding if soiler's holding the bag. He'd have to sell in order to do any capex
nostrich · 2w
People have postponed (sometimes abandoned) their plans of economic freedom and Bitcoin usage and savings because they fear a rebuke from the states. You're right. We were promised that there was a plan for reaching the free market without a single point of failure but we're like six years later an...
leadbyexample · 2w
So your point is that those that are good at accumulating wealth, will keep amassing even more wealth in their pockets, leaving less and less wealth available for those who are not good at accumulating wealth? Welcome to evolution 😉 Bitcoin was never meant to solve wealth inequality (which is ...
leadbyexample · 2w
LOL at the guy in the video. "Aww those guys are TOOOO rich! They clearly have no idea about what all that money is good for! Never mind that they were smart enough to obtain all that wealth... WE are the ones who KNOW how they SHOULD use their wealth... wait, in fact, WE have the GOD GIVEN RIGHT (...
qew Nemo · 2w
Bitcoin is a zero sum game. It doesn't matter if there are super rich btc holders or not. Their presence can't stop a bitcoin-based circular economy regardless of whether they participate in it or not.