If the government is robbing its citizens, and forcing the poorest of them to pay a monstrous inflation tax, why is a FREE CHOICE alternative to fight government oppression a threat to you?
It's shit like this that makes it difficult to take libertarians seriously.
- Article about Bitcoin appears praising it for being as important as emancipation.
- I disagree with that comparison, strongly, including a personal "fuck you" to the author for being so obtuse.
- Community reviles me as an enemy of change and liberty.
It's clearly a logical progression, is it not? Obviously, I hate BitCoin due to my position. I had better agree with everything said about BitCoin or I am standing in the way of freedom.
How is that sticking to the issues again? Does that only apply to those disagreeing with you and not you?
Even someone disagreeing and not wanting to use bitcoin should at least support other's freedom to use it.
"How can someone logically say they support freedom for some causes but not others..."
I'm against your having freedom to take my stuff. Are you saying I can't logically support other freedoms?
Furthermore, a rise in the dollar-denominated price of gold is not inflation; inflation is a rise in the nominal price of things we actually buy.
Further, inflation is an increase in the money supply (ie printing new money). It is NOT an increase in price of goods, although it usually causes price increases as producers and consumers react.
Virtually every document that I have seen talking about “inflation”, in the economic sense, defines it as “prices going up”. You can define it as “an increase in the money supply” if that makes you happy. And I could define it as “mint-chocolate-chip ice cream”. Hey, I wish I had some more inflation....