Waiting to exit my "newbie" condition, I have time to read the fascinating off-topic post written against Luke-Jr by ShadowOfHarbringer.
And frankly, I'm a little bit troubled.
Is it necessary to had supported Ron Paul to join the bitcoin community?
Will the bitcoin be under the ideological enforcement of Tea Party zealots?
Greetings to you from a land far far away.
Strictly speaking BTC has the property of being pseudo-anonymous (under the right privacy conditions we could remove the "pseudo" part completely). That said a social state-driven economy should be able to keep a record of transaction in order to be able to tax properly it's citizens.
That's theory though. In reality this *almost never* happens. If you have *enough money* banks sell you services (with a fee of course) to money launder, tax avoiding techniques and so on. Then if you're Goldman Sachs, you don't even have to care about that. You don't get tax'ed and if you "fail" you get "bailed out".
You see, anyone can say the shit they want, but there's no way to seriously back the thesis that a Hedge Fund can create 1Billion USD in 5 hours (because FOREX went crazy) while a farmer bust his ass 8 hours for 8 to 24 USD while he ACTUALLY creates SOMETHING (a tomato?). But that's the art of finance: Creating money out of nothing, let the retards pay the bill when the time comes, because "Hey, it was a bubble" ... of course it was you fucking idiot! And instead of putting these people to jail, you have them in both parties (Dem or Rep) in all key positions.
That said, do you really give a shit about these fucking retards?
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher who lived around 350 B.C. and one of the few things he said (and I remember, I guess he said a lot more): If you consider your a governance immoral, supporting his perpetual existence by any means [such as paying taxes] makes you complicit.
So until they decide to tag Bernanke as a loser, put Henry Paulson, Tymothy Geithner, Stephen Friedman and Blakfein in jail. I don't seriously give a shit about ethics and morals.
Read here fore more on GS:
http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-great-american-bubble-machine-20100405NOTE: I don't have nothing against GS or HSBC (who launders money for murderers, rapers, pimps and so on), etc. as institutions. I just can't stand the idea that these people are so full of shit when they talk or "release non-papers" to public media, but they always get away with billions of $$$ while everyone else gets fucked up.