The layers of control in the current economy seems boundless. Makes me want to join the goldbugs sometimes. Hard money seems so much simpler and freer. An anonymous, portable, fungible, hard to counterfeit and inflate, universal account of previous work value. People give it to you when you give them something or a service they want. It seems like a system of the people, by the people, and for the people.
If these characteristics of money are appealing to you check out Bitcoin. Its digital, distributed, decentralized, and impossible to counterfeit which as a programmer and engineer I find incredibly fascinating.
And after a while, maybe we could pool resources together for projects such as infrastructure, bridges, fire stations, that are too expensive for any single person, but from whom we would all benefit! It would be great! We could all give some of our money for these! Let's call this way of doing things government. Oh wait.
Was not criticizing the government in particular, just commenting on one aspect of how monolithic systems over time become inscrutable to the humans that have to use them. See Kafka who lived under the Austro-Hungarian Empire for some famous literary examples.
