I think one of the strenghts of Bitcoin is that users are ideologically various.
I've never meet a Bitcoiner in real life that was perfectly okay with paying taxes.We should meet up then, because I am absolutely "perfectly okay with paying taxes".
An ineffective or a broken system is not an excuse to exist without one.
I know it's cool to scream blue murder at taxes, but in the real world, charity, noble intents and self-preservation will not hold a society together.
To those who insists that society can still function without taxes, I urge you to just consider why there are over 400,000 orphans in the United States and over 150,000,000 around the world that still depend on their respective government's foster systems to survive. Where are these altruistic individuals that we so often hear about in narratives of no-tax utopias?
isn't neo-liberals just classical liberals like our founding fathers?
fairly distant concepts. I believe they refer to that as 'Paleoliberal'.
The Founding Fathers were certainly not "paleoliberals".
All the regulations have to do with interfacing Bitcoin with the legacy system that these people say they want eliminated so why should they care?
Because people should have the freedom to make whatever private arrangements they want.
I certainly don't hate Libertarians. I used to go to meetings at CATO institute when I lived in Washington, DC. I also work with the NJ Libertarian's party on their Open Government Project. So I like many normal Libertarians and people who fight for open government. The guy who runs that project files lawsuits to gain access to government records. He doesn't go around making a bunch of hyperbolic comments and meme's or attaching himself to a technology in order to promote himself.
Self-professed libertarians of CATO (associated/influenced/converted), for the most part, are thoughtful individuals who recognize the subtleties of theories and philosophies and the exigencies of real world - at least until the Koch brothers' hostile takeover a few years ago. Self-proclaimed born again and paleo libertarians, on the other hand, live in a world that is increasingly detached from reality.
And lastly,
After having a few tweets with Erik Voorhees today, rather than going through yet another libertarian debate, I figured- let's get tactical.
The bitcoin political ideology has been identified before. It's called Neoliberalism.
do bitcoiners call themselves Neoliberals?
The bitcoin political ideology has been identified before. It's called Neoliberalism.
do bitcoiners call themselves Neoliberals?
No, 'Bitcoiners' is not a superorganism that can be definitively defined and classified by a single label.
The Bitcoin demographic consists of (my speculation) intelligent, opinionated and independent-minded individuals.
'Bitcoiners', believe it or not, is not similar to fungal colonies or coral reefs.
