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Its often forgotten that it was the liberal consensus that grew during the seventies out of an aversion for gunboat diplomacy, where the US as global policeman was forced to enforce trade of resources vital to us all, that instead should be replaced by a rule-based order agreed between government elected by their people where market mechanics as information discovery inform where resources have to go.

There is a storm coming, wether it is migration, climate change or some other malthusian trap. We see these problems coming and direct resources to prevent or alleviate these ill. The old problem of "who should do what, when, how and why" is left be be decided. That is what politics is for. The self evident truth that all men are created equal, and that human-rights do not stop at the border. Where are the neocons now that we need them? To me all this talk about monitory policy and therefor bitcoin is a side-show.




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