Chronicles of Planet Anarchy. #15
How Bitcoin can eliminate the silly old problem of right and left
In the same way that Windows took over the world market and became the most used operating system in computing, capitalism took over the minds of many generations of humans in recent centuries. As much as many claims that capitalism was born in the French Revolution, the truth is that since the origins of humanity, there has been the idea of control of resources by elites and this took many forms and was called by several different names. What has happened in the last 200 years is that the "operating system" has been changed so that all of humanity works on the basis of accepting without discussing too much that there has to be someone who owns the resources, someone who transforms those resources, and a series of (political) charlatans who make half the population believe that the subsystems that operate under that operating system are the correct ones and that "we are on the right track."
An operating system provides a hardware and software infrastructure that makes possible the operation of certain processes or protocols. We have a world operating system called capitalism that allows the construction of a layer that sits on top of that infrastructure and that transforms the resources that no one doubts belong as a private property to those who took possession of them, and that ends up feeding an infernal consumer machine, which not only never stops, but, thanks to the money created by the banks (protocols that run on the same operating system), it grows more every day, because the money created goes to consumption, which causes the construction of more resource transformation protocols to allocate to consumption, and so on, and economists call this "growth."
We can suggest that the functioning of the planet, not only economic but also social, political, corporate, scientific, educational, etc., is mounted on a Layer 0 called capitalism that basically consists of allowing ownership of the resources that are going to be processed by the layers that are mounted on it, resources that belong to "the first to arrive and appropriate them", no matter how. It may even be with the invasion methods that the Vikings used. Precisely, one of the main resources of this system is fiat money, which constitutes the fundamental basis of the power that is going to be exercised. And the first to come along and take it over is the L1 corporations that run the world economy.
A Layer 1 infrastructure is mounted on top of the Layer 0 operating system, which basically consists of entities that transform resources, commonly called factories in the case of products, and offices in the case of services. Few dispute that this is the only way to organize societies of people. And it is logical since that is what is studied in colleges and universities and in hundreds of books written by capitalism advocates. What will change according to which side of the line they are on is who should own the L 1, not whether or not they should exist.
An L 1, the so-called "left" will defend that the State must be the owner of the means of production, that the collective is more important than the individual, and that the result of production must be distributed equitably.
The other L1, called "right", will defend that the means of production should be in private hands, that the State should not intervene in the economy because it acts following the invisible hand of the "free market", and that the distribution of wealth must be done based on individual effort, which they call a meritocracy, based on the belief that "all" people have the same opportunities. Under this incredible belief, the son of a millionaire from Paris has the same opportunities as an illiterate from Somalia. If the latter is not rich, it is because he is a lazy person who does not make an effort.
As we see, both L 1 need a State. In the case of the left, the State takes the figure of the king who distributed privileges among his feudal lords, in exchange for protecting them in case of war. In the case of the right, too. The difference is that in the case of the left, the feudal lords are a series of bureaucrats, governors, mayors, and associated colleagues, and in the case of the right, the feudal lords are the corporations, which in this way receive legal protection for pillaging the planet's resources, throwing away waste, polluting in a "legal" way, and exterminating thousands of species, to "generate" wealth and buy loyalties from governors, mayors, and colleagues. In other words, it is the same, both on the right and on the left. There is no difference, since everything is built on the same L 0, so, there is not much room for creation. Everything is built with the APIs provided by the L 0 operating system. In the same way that the common person is unaware of everything that is happening in the central processor of the computer he/she is using, that same person is totally unaware of the fundamentals of capitalism that lead him/her to act as he/she acts. The functioning is unconscious, at the level of depth psychology. You act in a certain way, without knowing why. But why is simple: it was programmed by someone to make the system work the way it does.
In practice, both positions, no matter how many promises of well-being they sell, end up in corruption, contempt for human beings and the environment, and the search for power through the accumulation of money, which is the basis of global L 0 called capitalism.
So, we see that both L 1, right and left, need a State, factories, and offices that produce goods and services with economies of scale so that consumption is ever greater (growth economy as the only possibility), and issued money by a centralized entity that is distributed according to the designs of the feudal lords who keep the king (the State) in power.
This is a model that no one disputes. What other possibility is there? What would people work for if not in factories and offices? The root of this type of thinking is that people tend to live in big cities, as programmed in L 0. The capitalist system can "grow" if it is capable of accumulating, and to accumulate more and more, it is necessary to produce and consume more and more. Does not matter how. That is to say, it does not matter what degree of lies are designed from the marketing and mass advertising regarding the new milk for babies fortified with tungsten iodine, which food corporations force to buy, under the penalty of not understanding the progress and scientific investigations that they developed with so much effort. The only thing that counts is to produce more and more, consume more and more, and accumulate more and more, with the sole objective of increasing shareholder profitability. That is the core code of the operating system L 0 called capitalism.
Since nobody disputes this model, the only thing left is to build the applications that are mounted on the L 1. That is the L 2. The L 2 are of the most varied type, but the only objective they have is to attract customers to play with the model while preserving it because they cannot modify it, in the same way, that a sidechain, an L 2, or an altchain cannot modify the Bitcoin blockchain or Polkadot's L 0.
L 2 developers are very creative with their business proposals. They range from the revolutionary left at one end of the L 1 “left”, through various types of social democracy as they try to find their way to the center. In the case of the “right” L 1, and L 2 are mounted on it, ranging from the extreme right or fascism, going through various types of neoliberalism while trying a path towards the center.
But it should be clear that all L 2 are part of the same L 0 operating system that they cannot modify. They can only build on top of it and with the APIs that are included in the same package with which the product is distributed.
So Bitcoin.
(A portion of this article was originally published on Publish0x)
I will continue.
Thank you for reading! Decentralize yourselves as much as you can, and much more! Work for yourselves, not for others. When you work for someone else, they pay you what YOUR POSITION is worth, when you work for yourself, they pay you what YOU are worth. No one achieves financial independence by working as an employee. Live long and prosper!
Never forget:
As usual, none of the things written in this post are financial advice and are not intended to replace personal research. My sole intention in writing this post is informative. Several of the things discussed here could be wrong, so in no way can this post be construed as financial advice, and in no way should it replace your own research.
If you have any questions or comments, please feel free to leave them down below
You can also contact me at gerardo.saporosi@gmail.com
Twitter https://twitter.com/SirGerardThe1st
LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/gerardosaporosi/
Follow my blog Anarchy: the Final Solution:https://gerardosaporosi.substack.com/
Mensaje para hispanoparlantes. Pueden seguir mi podcast MACROESTRATEGIA en Fountain. ¿Sabían que en Fountain pueden ganar sats solo por escuchar episodios de sus podcasts preferidos? No se pierdan esta oportunidad de juntar sats para usar en la Lightning Network.
Bajen la aplicación Fountain para IOS o Android y hagan una cuenta con mi referral link
https://fountain.fm/sirgerardthe1st?code=7ea0b680d3
Cuando la hayan hecho, podrán empezar a acumular sats solo por escuchar sus podcasts y sus episodios favoritos.