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Part of libertarian marketing is that if you don’t enjoy the system or see opportunities in destroying it, that is ok. Bitcoin fits into a larger fantasy narrative which is that instead of working together inside the actually closed system in which we all exist, you can endlessly fragment the social space and opt out into smaller and smaller volitional communities. The idea seems intuitive until you start to hit limits, or when collective action is needed in the form of governance. Or when your crypto nationalism runs into the same problems we have been dealing with since the dark ages ended.


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