Erdos on Nostr: If people in Plato’s cave failed to recognize Feudalism 2.0 for over 50 years, ...
If people in Plato’s cave failed to recognize Feudalism 2.0 for over 50 years, imagine the reluctance to leave the cave if the state manages to bootstrap Feudalism 3.0 via a CBDC.
“By this means the government may secretly and unobserved, confiscate the wealth of the people, and not one man in a million will detect the theft.”
- John Maynard Keynes
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2024-04-20 01:29:04Event JSON
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