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The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social · Jun 23

Check out my book "Discourse: The Bridge to Light."

I propose immediate steps to navigate the credit and currency collapse, describe how markets can function post-collapse without central planners, speculate on New Earth, and challenge both scientific and theological understanding.
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Discourse: The Bridge to Light

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The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social · 1m

You wouldn't boycott it because you would starve, unlike in a free market where you have options.

The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social · 1m

If the problem is not corrected, people who want a safe society should fund a different force that only seeks to end trespassing, slavery, the abuse of the defenseless, and the production or existence of nuclear weapons.

The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social · 1m

If the charity is unnecessarily killing people, I am telling you, as the conceiver of the security force, that it is not performing its duty.

The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social · 4m

See that's the entire problem. Not everyone will agree on what the government should do, so you need a ruler or ruling council to make the decisions for everyone. You can have democracy but then you get Harris versus Trump. A fucking nightmare.

The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social · 20m

Thank goodness for that, but let's not start another one

The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social · 21m

Fair. Nazis like all political groups are good at criticizing others while ignoring their own shortcomings.

But I am no Nazi. Border policy should be determined by landowners and trade policy by individuals. I oppose laws against abortions and drugs, and I oppose all forms of tax including tariffs.

The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social · 25m

You boycott producers when they do shitty things. When a communist government is the sole producer, it tends to do shitty things.

The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social · 26m

Haha fair. But I am aligned with ancaps and typically lumped in with them by people who don't listen.

The truth is, ancaps should not call themselves ancaps for the same reasons I don't. But I have failed to reach them as I have failed to reach all, even though we are philosophically aligned.

The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social · 28m

Competition is the whole idea. When competition exists, competitors become stronger whether we're talking about ideas, producers, providers, landlords, employers, or sports.

The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social · 30m

They also want to avoid the risk of confiscation e.g. Russia.

Dare I say there's also a reason silver is experiencing deeper and more sustained backwardation than since the 1970s. Bank failures...imminent?

The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social · 30m

There's a reason the gold price is up 50 percent in the last year. BRICS nations are realizing American government debt is unpayable and that the currency (and future payments of that currency e.g. bonds) will be debased to finance continued government spending.

The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social · 37m

Fiat currency was adopted so governments could spend money and fund it through inflation (a secret tax on everyone but that hits the poor hardest) rather than overt taxation which voters and especially political donors dislike.

The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social · 39m

Fools own that debt.

I'm not expecting any attacks from banks or police.

The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social · 41m

Or perhaps you're boycotting a "great leap forward" that starved over 30 million.

Alternatively, maybe you're just boycotting a government that conducts ICE raids and funds the genocide of Palestine. There are countless reasons people have disliked their governments.

The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social · 41m

Perhaps you want to boycott a government which undertook a "great purge" where they executed over 700,000 people in the gulags.

Perhaps you want to boycott a government that conducted the Holodomor, a state-engineered famine that killed over 3 million.

The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social · 48m

I've already addressed this. Just because people will be able to survive without working doesn't mean no one will work to seek to gain for themselves a better life than mere survival.

The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social · 50m

The insults aren't necessary. I'm here doing you the kindness of addressing your concerns and don't deserve cruelty in return.

The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social · 51m

If the force becomes abusive, donors should withdraw their donations and fund a security force that isn't abusive.

The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social · 51m

It's not people with more money who get a say but people willing to donate more money to this specific cause. Purchasing power is real power but many wealthy people will likely favor different causes and donate nothing to the security force.

The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social · 53m

A false accuser who later has a valid concern must find someone willing to risk their own lifetime accusation rights to make the claim. False claims should be strongly discouraged and donors should vote, directly or by proxy, on whether a claim justifies a loss of accusation rights.

The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social · 55m

I'm the radical capitalist because what I propose is radically different to anything that's been tried. Maybe my book could help you wrap your head around it, as I go into depth on the transition and future of specific industries.

The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social · 58m

The difference is I would donate my profits to worthy causes such as heifer.org or rainforesttrust.org, organizations I currently support, rather than having my income used to fund ICE, Israel, or the prison system.

The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social · 1h

I don't support any restrictions on what can be used as currency and expect in the early days people will barter with whatever they have on hand to survive. But over time, I expect gold to become the standard unit of account and medium of exchange, as it has done countless times throughout history.

The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social · 1h

With modern technology, you can easily exchange paper claims on gold without having to physically move gold

The Radical Capitalist @theradcap.bsky.social · 1h

Fiat currency does currently fill that role but its purchasing power will disappear once the population realizes they can debase it at will to monetize debt