Accumulating capital enhances productivity and reduces time preference, fostering a self-reinforcing cycle we refer to as civilization.
Fiat weakens or even reverses this process.
In contrast, #Bitcoin intensifies the civilization-building process.
Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
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Thomas Sowell