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There's no "science." It's a bunch of left-wing activists who need an excuse to fly on a jet. None of these people give a shit about the weather.
You're not understanding how this issue is being debated in the West. Western socialists are demanding prohibitive taxes on all private-sector energy usage. That's why "climate change" shouldn't be taken seriously. It's a hustle.
That's just not how Bitcoin cycles play out.
There is a minority who wants it desperately and they drive the price up amongst themselves without permission from the majority.
Trumps Big Oil sponsored denial of climate change is a massive betrayal of the US people, economy, credibility, power, wealth and prosperity.
Oil is wealth, commie.
Germany is a state-worshipping society that was conquered by neighboring state-worshipping societies. Europe has no concept of an objective reality that transcends what the state decrees.
But it is productive. It's just that it's not productive of a commodity. It's productive of an intangible service. There is a want and a need for what the speculative investor is doing.
Price speculation, or capital allocation, is a productive activity. The investor's individual gain (absent government interference) is still a reflection of the value they've produced for others, the same as any form of income.
Are you saying that because there's no physical labor or physical goods involved, price speculation is unproductive? That's such brainless commie logic.
It's not just a "nice to have" when the alternative is the government ripping you off with a scam token.
Go live somewhere there is no government and report back
You act like it's my fault. The gangs follow me. You don't let me leave.
I separated my money from the state, at least. And my wealth is infinitely safer as a result.
Capitalism is highly dependent upon the state. This is easily demonstrated by the fact that without the state and the rule of law it enables property ownership, contracts and security of people and territory which underpin capitalism are not possible.
To translate that buzzword salad: "Pay me for pointing a gun at you, and in return I'll 'protect' the property I'm now leeching off."
State-sanctioned theft is an attack on rule of law as dictated by man's conscience. The professional agitator who raises the sales tax on gasoline nationwide is a billion times more destructive than the guy who loots only one gas station.
How about all the extortionists of the world just fuck off, and if someone earns money they can keep it?
I don't get it. I give someone $100, they give me 0.001 BTC, and then someone like you comes along demanding $20 for the Somali children because "society." Why?? Enough of the taxation bullshit. I don't care if it's been going on for thousands of years. Enough is enough.
She didn’t seem mentally healthy but does that mean she should be shot in the head? Is there no other way to handle this?
Joe Rogan is a bitch. When a horse breaks its leg, you have to shoot it in the head. You can't rehabilitate something that resists treatment.
It's all extortion. You think extortion is necessary for cooperation. I see it as the opposite of cooperative.
No rational actor wants someone else to be taking their money. It's all sadomasochism. Socialism is a disease of the soul.
Who's taxes? You saved yourself from the damage. We can afford to ignore the consequences of taxation because we have Bitcoin.
Of course other people getting taxed to pay me could be considered a good thing within a certain logical framework. It depends if your morality is subjective or objective.
As a result of BTC I am paying more tax to support my NZ government than ever before.
Yeah you're proving the Laffer curve argument correct. It's no different from harvesting any other product from a living thing. Before there exists anything that can be taxed, you have to let it grow independently for a while without taxation.
What I'm saying is very simple: the process of taxation means harming one person to serve the gain of someone else. You're abstracting it out into something called "society" (which in contrast to individuals, lacks any consciousness of its own), but you were very quick to disregard mainstream opinion on Bitcoin. You adopted it only a few years after the pro-Hitler podcasts discovered why it was useful. You're a socialist when it comes to philosophizing about other people's money but you're a reactionary when it's your money at stake.
The taxes on my BTC gains are more tax than I have ever paid in over 5 decades as a taxpayer.
That's besides the point. You're the only one in the country doing it. If everyone adopted your strategy then the government would collapse because they can't finance all the fake programs you're talking about without printing money. You think your capital gains tax is enough to make up for a literal money printer? It's infinitely not enough.
Just avoid supporting the US rogue state as much as I can by not holding any fiat in their NZ banking oligopoly.
Yeah instead of FDR's socialist US, you allied yourself with a dissident international confederacy of private business that is far more radically anti-tax than the founders of the original US. Good job.
That's why we have to share with them the good news of Objectivism. So they can outsource their thinking and donate their money to us instead.