Are You Paying the Price for Centralized Government Incompetence & Greed
Hanlon's Razor: Incompetence versus malice
We started exploring this last rip, so go check that one out if you haven’t. You won’t hear these things talked about in school or in legacy media.
Hanlon’s Razor tells us that most centralized malice is generally incompetence.
People that lack confidence or possibly some morals and ethics are attracted to the areas where they can attain more control over others.
People that are fulfilled and confident don’t need to boost their ego and generally aren’t attracted to power roles.
This is the paradox of life:
Good people want to be left alone.
Bad actors want to have power and spotlight on them.
Bad actors take power.
Bad actors start making good peoples lives a living hell.
Start sounding familiar?
Sounds a little like high school doesn’t it.
Now pour some gasoline on this fire with the fact that our monetary system is broken and incentivizes MORE of this behavior.
When I can print currency to buy votes and steal the wealth quietly through my citizens, then why wouldn’t I?
More power and control begets more power and control.
This would explain why so much of the working class producers of the world feel the pinch and why politicians generally are always looked down upon. The people know there isn't something right, but they just can’t put their finger on it.
The normal guy or gal doesn’t have time in the modern age to even think about because the irony is he has two or three jobs just to keep up with the expenses of life that are running away from him that the bad actors in power keep creating!
Its a never ending vicious cycle to destruction.
Only when things get bad enough do good hard working people stand up and say, “ENOUGH!”
Higher prices and more war and more spending call on the average person to pay higher taxes and higher prices (inflation) so they have to get more jobs or give up and ask for more handouts from the very politicians creating the mess in the first place.
I am not the first nor will I be the last person to advocate separating money and state. Thomas Jefferson and the Founding Fathers knew full well the dangers of private and central bankers and the lust they have for printing currencies and consficating their citizens wealth.
Much of the bad policy is derived from this fact and from a basic level seems like there are people at the top pulling the puppet strings. The fiat currencies we use allow power-hungry individuals to flex their muscle and their unscrupulous behavior in order to get their way.
We use to have Ghengis Khan or other tribes coming to ransack you but now we have men in suits who do it much more quietly and unobserved, legally.
If money is removed from the state they cannot print it endlessly and redistribute to their buddies, their projects, and who they see fit. It can only be worked for through providing value to others. The government must ask you for taxes in order to go to war. They must come to you before they do anything.
We currently have a system where the people are scared of the government and the people at the top take whatever they want, whenever they want.
Centralized entities have a funny way of doing this. People can bloat the size of government, not take responsibility for anything, point at others, then take more of your cash without asking by printing it up and not reaping any of the consequences of their actions. This creates a dangerous moral hazard all across society.
Unintended consequences sprout up everywhere and do harm at every level from the family, to the corporation, up to the government.
Our Founding Fathers fought to decentralize our Republic and make it hard to shirk responsibility. Incompetence is borne out of bloat and finger pointing which creates waste and hardship, then eventually destruction.
I used to think there were a couple goons at the top and there was nothing we could do. When you realize that it is generally incompetence incentivized through broken money and not malicious few actors then there is the realization that you can do something to effect change.
There are certainly evil people in the world, though not nearly as many as there are good people. However, large bloated centralized entities aided and amplified by a broken money bring out the worst dark side of human beings. It allows you to look the other way and blame the problems you may have been involved in on someone else. Like a firing squad where there are 12 gunmen but only one has a bullet. They can all go to bed at night resting peacefully on their pillow rationalizing to themselves that they most likely did not kill that human.
Money was here before governments and will be here long after governments are around.
Money does NOT come from the government.
Fake fiat currencies come from the government.
Show me the incentives and I’ll show you the outcome.
Stay strong,
Brandon