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💯. Two things that brought it home for me 👇 1) This @Svetski article: https://svetski.medium.com/bitcoin-is-not-democratic-pt-1-6ce622c90e8f 2) The very first episode of @Saifedean Ammous's podcast:

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The Bitcoin Standard Podcast • 1. Monarchy and Democracy • Listen on Fountain

Main points on Monarchy vs Democracy:1. Time preference2. Security of property3. War4. Democracy has perverse selection5. Democracy legitimates gov...

Indeed, "democracy" is just another great-sounding word that ends up screwing the people.

Fundamentally flawed when given 5 minutes of critical thought

DDoS attack on reason

Democracy is designed to keep you pacified while you think you are in control.

Yep

America was found as a constitutional republic, not a democracy

Democracy is the tyranny of the majority.

Yep if anything its worse to be persecuted by a majority of your peers than by a tyrant

It really is! View quoted note →

Democracy robs freedom of choice from minorities and from individuals. Unalieable rights and individual free agency are the liberators. Unalienable rights are rights that cannot be taken away, not even by a 100% majority rule vote. They cannot be legislated away, they cannot be ruled at away by a supreme court, and they cannot be diluted by governments or institutions, and nothing can add conditions to them.