What Do People Mean When They Say “Fix the Money Fix the World”
The golden age of any human civilization is predicated on advancements in technology. Ambitious societies build things that are actually valuable to their constituents. These valuable things facilitate advancement in every aspect of the culture and ultimately that civilization is propelled forward. Here’s a brief example to get the point across:
Roman masons created the arch, which enabled the aqueduct, which led to the creation of large cities that facilitated the spread of ideas in which beautiful art was born.
While admittedly a simple example, it succinctly illustrates how technology enables advancement and better, more beautiful lives for all participants. This is our uniquely human trait, our gift from God, that sets us apart from every other animal. We are so good at this, that none other than the brilliant technologists Naval Ravikant can explain-
“Humans are exceptional. In epistemology, humans are the only non-Bayesian reasoners. In evolution, humans are the only memetic creatures that we know of. In the theory of computation, humans are the only universal explainers that we know of other than, of course, the computers that we’ve invented….In fact, the mind-blowing thing here is that your mind cannot be blown. There’s no idea out there that your mind cannot absorb given the time and the effort.”
Takeaway – Humans are good at building really powerful technologies and civilizations
Creatures of Habit
However, no human civilization has managed to flourish in perpetuity. There tends to be a culturally diminishing return on the fruits of technology. Broadly applying this concept to any great civilization of the past, you notice a simple pattern that looks something like this.
Discovery > Rise > Golden Age > Debauchery > Fall – or, said another way — Strong men > good times > weak men > bad times
The unfortunate thing is it has nothing to do with technology but rather humans themselves.
Discovery
- Technological advancement creates a schism in the existing paradigm which spawns an opportunity to take advantage of.
Rise
- Taking advantage of these opportunities is generally done by ambitious men who tend to create vast amounts of wealth, power, and prosperity.
- While on the rise, that civilization is “moving fast and breaking things” as the proverbial tech wisdom goes. Growth is prioritized and celebrated culturally in society because everyone is doing better.
- Since the “Rise” happens inherently in the beginning of a civilization’s story arc, this tends to be when markets are the freest and there is the least amount of regulation
- The society is prospering as a whole because market signals are clear. There is a succinct and functioning feedback loop – Capitalists are using markets to organize capital, deploy capital, and create more capital.
- This is, in fact, the only way technology can be created and brought to market in the most efficient manner possible.
- Which obviously, benefits the most market participants
Golden Age
- Civilization reaches their technological and moral height
- The most ambitious capitalists have created and gathered vast amounts of wealth
- The creator(s) of technology and the people closest to it, in proximity and time, tend to have the greatest respect for it.
- There is a society-spanning appreciation for how things used to be and how much work and risk were needed to get to the heights they have reached
Debauchery
- Unfortunately for our human strengths we also have human weaknesses
- Wealth & power tend to create a centralizing effect. Now the civilization is rich and powerful. This attracts the worst type of people.
- Enter the bureaucratic class
- Power ends up consolidating in proximity to the money printer
- They can’t compete in the market, so they compete in lawfare
- Institutions and regulations are designed to alter the once free markets to benefit the backroom Kabal
- Incentives become skewed to the point where market participants can no longer make calculated bets with their capital. Rather a fake façade is created through market manipulation.
- There is no sense of a functioning feedback loop; therefore, market participants are forced to resort to gambling with their capital
- The mechanisms (free markets, capital organization, capital allocation, technological advancement, freedom, moral cohesion, and societal respect) by which a great civilization has been built are now no longer intact. They have been fully derailed or explicitly destroyed.
Fall
- At this point, the unproductive managerial class has been in charge for some time and managed to eradicate every (or nearly every) aspect of the rise
- They have been diligently working to keep the racket going, but at this point it is too painfully obvious to the market participants
- The horrifying truth of this phase is that the façade is stitched together by the power of the money printer
- They can keep patchworking the facade for a surprisingly long time
- We all know the old saying – “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.” Well in this case its more like “The bigger they grew, the longer they can keep the music on”
- Heaven forbid this ever happens in the U.S. we could maybe point back to the end of the gold standard and be in awe about how it took 100 years to finally get here
- However, once this process is in motion, every once-great civilization is destroyed from the inside out
This has happened over and over again because humans have a fatal flaw.
Humanity’s fatal flaw is when the superior technological civilization centralizes the money.
Their Failure, Our Opportunity
Bureaucrats know this. That is why they have been doing it forever. Over and over again. A Technological Breakthrough
Fortunately for us, even the humblest of plebs is capable of basic pattern matching and exposing their dirty tricks.
How so?
Well we already know that humans are technological beings. It is our gift from God, innate in us. So, there is physically nothing in our DNA that will stop us from rebuilding another technological civilization. There is one thing we can do though – we can decentralize the money. Fortunately for us humans, Satoshi Nakamoto already did this through their invention of Bitcoin. In the words of Michael Saylor
“Satoshi created a way, gave it away, and went away”.
Truly a species altering gift to humanity.
For starters – Bitcoin is the Decentralized Standard. It is…
- Digital
- Bitcoin is an open-source verifiable protocol native to the internet
- Fixed in supply
- There will only ever be 21M coins making it the most scare asset ever known to man
- Global
- If you can connect to the internet you can participate in the bitcoin network
- Programmable
- Bitcoin’s open-source nature allows developers to propose robust scripting capabilities through consensus adoption
- Inelastic
- Bitcoin will always represent the same unit of account over space and time
- Durable
- Bitcoin is an immutable store of value that cannot be destroyed or altered
- Secure
- Bitcoin is raw digital power. It is a wall of encrypted energy backed by 634 Exahash and 20 gigawatts of dispersed electricity
- Divisible
- Bitcoin is divisible into 100 million satoshis, enabling transactions of any size, from micro-payments to large transfers.
- Permissionless
- No central entity can determine who can participate, who they participate with, or how they participate within in the network
- Portable
- Bitcoin can be transferred globally in minutes through the internet, without physical limitations or intermediaries.
- Egalitarian
- Bitcoin is accessible to anyone with an internet connection, providing equal financial opportunities regardless of location, status, or wealth.
Okay – decentralized money exists, fantastic, so how do we fix the world?
Understanding the Moment
Centralized anything is subject to the will of the centralizers.
Centralized money is controlled by – careful, don’t miss it – central banks. Actually, just one in particular, The Federal Reserve Bank of The United States of America. The United States became the technological power in the 20th century, and they predictably centralized the money. The U.S. Dollar is the reserve currency of the world. Everything else simply trades against it.
Now it is important to understand – Money is not evil; the worship of money is. Money is simply a unit of account, a measuring stick. It’s just a means of economic organization. It underpins every market in the world. The most widely accepted money becomes the most influential measuring stick. Well, if money touches everything, and you can change the measuring stick, you suddenly have a lot of power.
There are and have been particularly evil people in the U.S. Government and Federal Reserve that have used the power of centralized money to alter markets. They intentionally distort signals. Opting to rather achieve their own objectives. Why? Because they can. They control the money. Which means they can influence any market they want to. That is destructive, they are destructive.
What They Do: Strip us of our Agency & Create Despair
Participants in global markets, also known as humans, are deprived of the right to receive accurate signals. When market feedback is distorted or manipulated, people lose the ability to make informed decisions, leading to a profound erosion of their sovereign agency—their intrinsic gift from God. Humans are endowed with free will, a sacred attribute that allows them to navigate the world with intention, purpose, and virtue. However, when a lower power intentionally seeks to strip them of this autonomy, it is not just a violation of their rights but a deep humiliation. This loss of agency plunges individuals into a state of despair, where rational thought and sound decision-making become nearly impossible. Despair is not just a momentary lapse in judgment; it is a corrosive force that snowballs, leading to increasingly poor decisions that exacerbate suffering. In such a state, humans, who are naturally designed to thrive on clarity and truth, become disoriented and vulnerable. Their resources, both physical and emotional, are drained or outright depleted as they struggle to navigate an environment filled with confusion and misinformation. This disorientation disrupts the natural order of human existence, as we are not wired to function under such constant, overwhelming uncertainty. The result is a society where despair feeds on itself, leading to greater chaos and suffering—a far cry from the flourishing that is possible when individuals are free to act with full agency and clarity.
How Bitcoin Fixes this: Transparency & Integrity
Bitcoin fixes this by providing a decentralized, transparent system where the integrity of market signals is preserved and cannot be manipulated by any central authority. By removing intermediaries and enabling peer-to-peer transactions, Bitcoin restores individuals’ sovereign agency, allowing them to act based on accurate, unfiltered information.
This is God’s will as explained in the Bible. We simply were intended to live and interact with each other in the way Bitcoin was designed.
Maximum transparency creates clarity which empowers people to make informed decisions. I believe this can help us foster a sense of control and purpose that counters the despair induced by manipulation and uncertainty. In doing so, Bitcoin not only protects individual autonomy but also creates a more resilient and just financial system where humans can thrive. Bitcoin allows human species to return to reality.
What They Do: Steal From You & Foster Resentment
The people who centralize money, work tirelessly to keep it centralized, and print more at their discretion, show a profound lack of respect for you as a human being. They print money to serve their own agendas, with no concern for the impact it has on your life. When new money is created arbitrarily, the value of the existing money you hold diminishes—your purchasing power is stolen right out from under you. This form of exploitation is deeply degrading. What’s even more insidious, is that this theft occurs without our full awareness. It leaves us with a sense of loss and frustration that we can’t fully articulate. It fosters feelings of deep resentment toward those around us. We act out in anger, perhaps even justifying our own unethical behavior as a response to the injustice we feel. Resentment fuels a vicious cycle, dragging us into our worst instincts. The money printers, fully aware of the harm they cause, consciously choose to violate your dignity and strip away your sense of worth.
How Bitcoin Fixes It: Fixed Supply & Fairness
Bitcoin fixes this by offering a monetary system that is decentralized and immune to manipulation by any central authority. Unlike fiat currency, Bitcoin has a fixed supply, which means no one can print more to serve their own interests, preserving the value of the money you hold. This restores fairness and transparency to the financial system, eliminating the money printing exploitation. By giving individuals control over their own wealth, Bitcoin empowers people to live with dignity and ensures that the value of their labor is protected, breaking the cycle of resentment and creating a more just and peaceful society.
What They Do: Propagate Human Suffering
War is, without question, the most destructive consequence of money printing. It embodies the worst of human suffering, leaving devastation in its wake for generations. The truly perverse aspect of war is that it is instigated and decided upon by the elite, yet it is the common man who bears the brunt of the fighting and dying. These elites, driven by power, greed, and a lower power – often have little regard for the lives they sacrifice or the havoc they wreak. The reality is that the average person rarely feels so passionately about a war that they would willingly invest their own hard-earned money to fund it. So, how do the elites finance their wars? Well they simply print more money. By doing so, they avoid the immediate backlash of taxation or direct funding, passing the hidden costs of war onto the population through inflation and economic destabilization. This process ends up deepening the suffering of those already impacted by the horrors of conflict. In this way, war becomes a vicious cycle, perpetuated by those in power at the expense of the very people they claim to serve. In my opinion the elite bureaucrats closest in proximity to the money printer are addicted to war.
How Bitcoin Fixes It: Power to the People
By removing the ability to create money out of thin air, Bitcoin forces accountability, making it impossible to finance conflicts without the explicit consent and support of the people. The resources needed to fund large-scale conflicts must be directly raised, making it much harder for governments to engage in reckless military adventures without facing immediate scrutiny from the public. Bitcoins transparency acts as a powerful deterrent against unnecessary wars, as the true costs are laid bare for everyone to see. This fundamentally shifts the power dynamics, reducing the likelihood of unjust wars. Bitcoin is a force of peace and reconstructs the incentive structure of war.
Call to Action: A separation of Church and State → a Separation of State and Money Printer.
Channeling the same Christian values that our forefathers embraced, we must continue to separate powers from the state. We must remove the state’s ability to print money. Rather we must strive to empower the people with a belief in sound money.
Conclusion
Humanity’s fatal flaw is when the superior technological civilization centralizes the money. These problems are not indicative of money, nor are they prevalent in every money, just the centralized money. In the most recent iteration of the empire cycle the United States of America became the technological power in the 20th century and they centralized the money. Predictably, problems ensued. It is important to remind ourselves that Americans did not elect the bureaucrats that are addicted to printing money. They don’t work for you, they have no loyalty to you, they do not care about you. They have shown us their true colors and abused their power. The only reasonable thing to do as a civilized society is to remove them from their responsibilities. Bitcoin gives us the right and ability to opt out. To permanently sever the head from the serpent. On a Bitcoin standard we can separate the state from the money printer. I urge everyone to support a financial system where one can truly love thy neighbor and treat others how they want to be treated.
That is what people mean when they say fix the money fix the world.
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