There Is No "They", Only You
Ideas to take with you.
- 01
A debt-based monetary system has only two possible states — continued expansion or instantaneous implosion — and the choice for slow expansion is a collective one, not the work of any single villain.
- 02
Scapegoating is a psychological default, not an analytical result; the reach for a 'they' protects the ego from confronting one's own participation in the system being critiqued.
- 03
Fiat selects for the human capacity to claim visible credit while diffusing invisible cost onto others; Bitcoin's properties select against that same pattern without requiring humans to change.
- 04
Bitcoin's current right-leaning coloration is a historical artifact of its early principles, not a permanent feature — the transition is structurally positioned to eventually address left-leaning concerns as well.
- 05
The most extreme instance of diffuse-cost politics is public debt itself, which imposes an unconsenting obligation on humans who have not yet been born.
