The truth is that the most effective soldiers are on the high end of the psychopathy scale, to be capable of killing multiple times with no remorse. Those kind of people don't care who or why they're fighting, just that they are. And they'll fight anyone, for good, bad or indifferent reasons. It's the killing they enjoy, not the cause, and those people (and the command chain that backs their actions) are highly dangerous.
Now, if employing personal protection actually was an insurance product, maybe we wouldn't be talking about this, as the more unhinged types that bother me wouldn't be incentivised to get a job like that in the first place. This protection racket culture should be changed.
As for the banks, well that's why we're here (whether everyone realises that or not, lol). And I'm hearing more "that's just the way it is", which I understand isn't what Satoshi said. We should change it, because we can. For your kids, if not for you. Likewise, this protection racket culture should be changed too.
It's a good thing then that at the very top is a civilian (the President). What you say is indeed unfortunately true. Hopefully, these effective soldiers have leaders who have at least a minimum moral compass. There are a few good men who have both qualities, but the tendency is for these who survive their tours of duty to come out not adjusting to regular civilian life, or have PTSD. The smarter and stronger (willpower) ones can cope, but not all are like that.
I'm not in the protection racket for others. I'm in it for myself. I'm my own insurance product. If there is a clear and present danger to me or my family, I would not hesitate to use whatever means necessary in order to protect them. Some random stranger insulting me from the other side of the road tends to get ignored (and hopefully he finds someone else to bother.)
Banks, yes, I'm here for that too. I know what is, and what could be. But depending on what country or regime you are in, these things take time (which is another one of those things that just are the way they are.) For my immediate family, I tell them what is. Then I tell them what could be. And I advice them on how to combine what they want to be public, and what they want to keep private, and what are the disadvantages or advantages for any particular action, and if some merit ... if something is really free, or you become the product.
I watched a TED talk that was pretty recent, (dated a year or two ago) where the topic was we humans are the only species on this planet that has a "collective memory", where we can pass on some or most of what we learn in our life to the next generation; thus all the industrial and technological advancements we have seen these past hundred years. I'll teach (or try to) my offspring how to take care of their privacy.
I'd love to live in utopia. I'd like a world that isn't in fear (or in acceptance) of becoming 1984 "Orwellian". Maybe I'm not in the right job for that (I'm not full time in the military by the way, I'm in the reserve force, I'm a network engineer / IT manager for most of the week.) But where ever I am, I try to do a little part of what I believe is towards that goal. So while I may carry a badge and a gun, I put nails in wood to make chairs for classrooms. And we do the all-popular tree planting thing once every few years.
The fastest way is to rise to the top and enter politics and change the system when I win the election, but that's also not reality or close to it.
But my men (and women) are not loyal to any one person
They are not "yours" then, it would seem. It's a start - keep thinking about it - seriously - what follows from that observation?
Yes, you are correct. By "mine", I meant the individuals who are under my command in my unit. They usually follow orders that they understand or can make sense of, but if I instruct any of them to jump without reason (or to go kill this other person who is not obviously a bad guy) they might not do it. But since I work with professionals that are not combat oriented, they have other things to think about.
But we're going a little off-topic here. There have been several hardware wallets, I'm still undecided if I want to spend money on any of them. They're all beyond the point of sending out "review" units. (In the mining section, I got a few.)
