This week I wrote a newsletter about how studying Bitcoin teaches people about voluntaryism and leads to their de-politicization.

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People claim that Bitcoin is for everyone, democrats, republicans, and Syrians, which is true. Bitcoin is for all humans, but studying Bitcoin, will make you far less motivated to identify with any particular political party or governance system (yes, even the libertarian party!)

The more people study Bitcoin, the more their views align with voluntarism. Voluntaryism is the broader philosophy that all interactions between all humans should be voluntary and devoid of force or threat.

Voluntaryism emphasizes the rights of the individual above anything else and criticizes the very ethical foundation of the State, which is the moral claim on violence or threats of violence.

It doesn’t matter if the State is a local gang or the US Federal Government, the backbone of both is coercion ---one just has better propaganda.

Anarchism is a natural political outcome of voluntaryism. Anarchism has been slandered and had its meaning conflated with chaos. But anarchy does not imply chaos. It just implies the absence of rulers (“An—“ means without “—archy” means rulers).

Many wise Austrian Economists (Rothbard included) have articulated how, given a free-ranging capitalistic system, it is possible to have rules without rulers—how a free market could produce legislation.

Early colonial America (especially Pennslyvania) and 1500s Ireland are historical evidence that free-market legislation isn’t just a utopian dream. It really is possible.

However, until Bitcoin, it was difficult to envision how we could have rules without rulers. It appeared that we needed centralized institutions to enact rules, and whoever controlled those centralized institutions could claim moral authority over what rules others had to follow.

But Bitcoin proves that rules without rulers is both possible and superior.

It is completely optional to opt-in or out of Bitcoin. There are no threats of violence. No one forces you to buy Bitcoin or run a node, and you only do so because it is in your self-interest to do so.

Once you see a system with rules without rulers, it’s clear how all other governance systems, including democracies, oppress individual rights.

Monarchies claim they have a divine right to rule, but they are just tyrannies of the individual. Oligopolies claim they have special wisdom to rule, but they are just tyrannies of the few, and democracies claim the will of the people, but they are just tyrannies of the majority.

So as people study Bitcoin more deeply, they simply disconnect from politics. They become less interested in which person is elected to which office because they see the entire State itself as oppressive and unethical.

This doesn’t mean that our rulers should be violently overthrown (since a new leader will assume their violent position) and it doesn’t mean that we should burn down their buildings (since that would be violent destruction of property).

But it does mean that we reject the State's rule by ignoring their silly decrees and buying Bitcoin.

Before Bitcoin it was becoming increasingly difficult to ignore governmental rules because governments had become massive. So each individual got involved in the political process to make sure they themselves weren't taxed or caged.

But now with a money that can’t be taken, inflated, or easily taxed, defending your property through the political process is less useful, and trying to acquire other people's property is less lucrative. As more people opt into Bitcoin, politics loses much of its power.

And so individuals will spend less time arguing politics with Aunt Gina on Facebook, and more time to dedicated toward the things that really matter: hobbies, businesses, and strong relationships with friends and families.

If you want to hear more:

Read the whole letter here:
https://mailchi.mp/272e50d11a01/all-governments-are-unethical

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