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<\/a>Feel free to test the fiction of this money.<\/p><\/div>\n
For money to work, it needs to be a consistent barometer of value. \u00a0In areas where no government can back up a “fictional” currency with force, people turn to different commodies which approximate\u00a0a stable worth, measured in general by how hard you have to work to get it: gold, cigarettes, liquor, ammunition.<\/p>\n
This process, as you can see, is inefficient. \u00a0If someone manages to build a tobacco plantation, for example, they would either have a monopoly on the economy, or people would stop using cigarettes. \u00a0And so on.<\/p>\n
But where there is a government which has proper authority, all they need to do is create something that’s hard to reproduce, control its supply, and assure the population that\u00a0they can count on its value being constant over time.<\/p>\n
This is what is known as “backed by the full faith of the government.” \u00a0It’s\u00a0why some governments have more valuable currency than others, and why the dollar is so popular for people to hold on to.<\/p>\n
This is where the Fed comes in. \u00a0Don’t let the likes of Ron Paul or Lyndon LaRouche fool you – the Federal Reserve does an AMAZING job of assuring the consistency of the dollar. \u00a0You know that every day between now and next year, the dollar will be worth exactly around what it is now and maybe 2% less than its current value. \u00a0And the only thing that can break that reliability is a collapse in the US government. \u00a0You can worry about that, I won’t.<\/p>\n
And I know that people like to post scary charts about how it’s worth half what it was worth 20 years ago, and you should see by now why it’s a silly debate. \u00a0Instead, compare that to the rise and fall of the Bitcoin. \u00a0Would you want to be paid in that kind of currency, not knowing whether you can pay rent or buy a loaf of bread with it in a month? \u00a0It’s a serious question – billions of people around the world have dealt with the question of what currency they prefer. \u00a0It’s not just bitcoin that has this issue – plenty of countries have helplessly watched their currency spiral out of control.<\/p>\n
It’s just that, in the USA, we have this bonehead choice. \u00a0We can have a currency that’s under control, that has the promise\u00a0of very intelligent and powerful groups of people tied to it, or we can have a currency that’s controlled by nothing. \u00a0Which would you rather be paid in?<\/p>\n
It’s the question of government versus anarchy. \u00a0And in the end I feel it is the same trend in our society that believes such thing as police, vaccines, technology and agriculture are all oppressive scams to thwart us from freely achieving our natural selves. \u00a0And that, in itself, is a degenerate trend that has become senile to the benefits of organized society. \u00a0But maybe that’s the reason I want to address the problem with Bitcoin, because I hope I can do something to thwart this greater downward spiral in our society.<\/p>\n
And with that, I’ll let Ted Rall take us home:<\/p>\n