To understand Bitcoin, you have to understand Power

Bitcoin is about stopping corrupt institutions, being able to be in control of the value of your labour, and potentially a new social structure that can extricate itself from our older totalitarian ones (i.e., American Imperialism, Military industrial complex etc).

I'm 30 and live in a first world country in a privileged job as a software engineer. And yet, when i talk to the people around me it's so clear that even the privileged are tremendously disillusioned. This isn't just something I feel - there's been multiple studies of this, the level of pessimism across the entire industrial world is extraordinary. In the United States, for example, about three-quarters of the population thinks that the future is going to be "objectively-worse" than the past. About half the American population thinks that both political parties just ought to be disbanded, they're useless. People feel hopeless. Why? They don't see a solution, or any alternatives. Even at the depths of the 1930s Depression, which was objectively worse than today, people felt like things were going to get better.

When you have no control over how we transmit value and hold it, it's easy to understand why people feel this way. Our economy has stopped growing since the 1970's, except in computers which became what it is today because of the US's military industrial complex. Science isn't funded unless it relates to war, and is funded by the pentagon. Countries like Nicaragua who move towards a more benevolent model of government are undermined and destroyed by the US to ensure a model of something better doesn't exist. Hell, Israel and Palestine in the 1970's were ready to make a two state solution - the US vetoed it, because Israel is a military outpost for them, so they can exert their power over the middle east. The US dollar system is the chain around the necks of all of us, within and outside the US itself. We have slowly become more and more indoctrinated and enslaved as the power of our political institutions has grown larger and more despotic.

The future of history under this system is bleak. More money printing, to fund more wars, to maintain the wealthy's power at the expense of the working people. Surveillance, wage slavery and the isolation that comes with this modern economy and the instability of it's economic outcomes for us.

These people in positions of power don't care about you. Not because they are monsters. But simply because this is all they understand. This is what seems like the best way we can organize ourselves together.

Bitcoin changes this dynamic.

Today, there's so many of us working hard at a job we hate, just to go home and watch tv, to see an advert for mcdonalds that tells them they'll feel happy if they eat a burger, that goes an eats at mcdonalds and spends the money in there pocket that is quickly inflating away into the elites of this world back accounts.

Tomorrow, Bitcoin can give us a chance to retain the value of our work. We have the potential for a world where someone works at a job they love, for less hours, doing something they want to do, and having the time to just cook food and think for themselves. y

We don't need an economy built on nike's and mcdonalds and warfare.

We need an economy built on things that are intrinsically valuable to the best parts of being human.

We need it before it's too late. Before these despotic structures kill us all, either through more entrenched social divisions and slavery, or the tragedy of commons issue that is climate change.

This is why I'm hyped for Bitcoin.