In fact I have yet to see a culture that didn't celebrate status and wealth in at least some form or another. However, America really takes the cake on this one. We can especially see the kind of damage that has been done to Black/Rap culture: where status and consumption and the celebration of gluttony can literally make the difference between life and death. Perhaps I'll explain that one in another post altogether, as it's not an easy one to clarify.
Gen Z is really waking to the fact of how absolutely fucked they are. This is simultaneously a good and bad thing. Good that they realize how fucked the system is but bad that they are dying on all the wrong hills to stand on. The establishment still them trapped inside the playpen of Children's Table Politics, worried more about microgressions and misgendering rather than infinite war for profit and the central banking cartel. They'll come around eventually; I have faith.
Poetically Gen Alpha are probably the ones that are going to make the most money. Being born into crypto will allow them to navigate the space with ease and quickly make the transition to the abundance mindset, while everyone else will have to undo a lifetime of brainwashing to accomplish the same goal.
I'm here to talk about the "friendly" competition that the most elite members of society engage in and how that affects the current reality. When Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos duke it out for title of "richest man in the world"... who wins? I'll tell you who wins: the central banking cartel.
The point is that people like Musk and Bezos are obvious front-men for the "deep-state". Musk, Bezos, Gates, and Buffet have never and will never be the richest person. The richest person could print out a trillion dollars under a fake identity and then destroy all the money at will, laughing the entire time because who cares? He was bored that day. Once you get to the top: money doesn't matter; it's all about power.
And then he'll go on to instruct one of the MSM companies he owns to blame the poor people for why the system is broken. These damn plebs aren't going to work and they just want government handouts, I tell ya! Business as usual.
These "richest" people are only the richest in terms of the value they create for society. Money is a reputation system (one that's been hacked several times over). In theory, the more money you have, the more value you've brought to society without spending (extracting) that value.
The actual richest people are all the old-money in the background that doesn't bring any value to society. These are the hidden family dynasties. Their only purpose is to make sure they stay in charge. However, what really matters is the new paradigm shift that crypto brings to the table.
So what happens when billionaires battle for dominance within the legacy system? The central banks win. This should be obvious by now. Even the measurement system being used is under their control. Billions of what? Dollars. Whoever controls dollars wins.
However, when we adapt this concept to the crypto side, what happens? What happens when billionaires on Hive compete to be the largest billionaire on Hive? Considering Hive's total market cap is less than a billion right now...
Because on Hive everyone who controls Hive actually owns Hive. Whereas USD is debt owned back to the central bank, Hive is real money owed back to no one. Whoever owns the keys owns the money, and that money can be used to sway not only governance within the system, but also inflation allocation itself and (more importantly) bandwidth allocation. It's a superior system that keeps all the value locked inside and then distributed fairly to all members within the community base on how much value they've stored without extracting.
Hive is one of the few networks out there that can actually scale. It's one of the few networks with oracles baked into the system and those oracles allow us to do all kinds of crazy things like peg a token to the dollar itself. When the dollar then loses value everyone holding Hive benefits, because then the entire network owes less debt.
We've essentially created a system that takes the parasitic qualities of USD and put that to work for ourselves. Kinda crazy when you actually parse what's going on here. Even more crazy when we consider that the witnesses offer 10% yield on HBD in the savings accounts, which completely negates these negative qualities and makes it worth holding long-term. Win/win for everyone. That's what crypto is all about.
In a traditional republic one person gets one vote. Citizens are brainwashed into thinking that this is a fair system and real change can come from within and fix the "democracy". This is just another lie fed to the kids at the Children's table. Sit down and shut up, kids: go back to work and stop complaining. You're being greedy and ungrateful.
Giving each person an equal vote implies that every citizen is an informed member of society that is immune to brainwashing and propaganda. Those who control the money control the media, and the media is used to hack the statistics so that the elite can rule and act like they aren't the problem. It's a deviously clever system that makes politicians look incompetent and you just gotta "vote the bums out" when really the politicians are extremely competent, they just work for the enemy of the people.
In a legacy republic, politicians get paid very little comparatively to how much power they wield. Everyone says we should pay politicians less because they are frustrated with the broken system. This is a mistake. We should be paying politicians a metric shit-ton and in return we expect a high-standard certain loyalty and ability to reject bribes and other forms of glad-handing and backdoor deals. Those who break this social contract will be removed IMMEDIATELY; Not years later.
That is exactly the kind of system we have on Hive. The politicians (witnesses) get paid a metric shit-ton. No one gets paid more than the top-20 witnesses. In return we expect these extremely valued members of society to do just that: build more value. While the flaws of this system are transparent and have been called out a thousand times, it is still superior to a legacy republic in basically every way possible.
It's easy to make the claim that the rich should not be able to control society, but that's exactly what happens with one to one voting, and one-to-one voting creates the illusion of fairness in addition to feeding into a debt-slave based system rather than allowing the value from this competition to flow back into the community itself. Hive is superior to any governance model I've seen thus far. The flaws being transparent are a feature, not a bug.
DPOS is also superior to Bitcoin governance, because Bitcoin doesn't have governance. Bitcoin is not a store of value, but rather a store of security. The security of Bitcoin is that there is no governance to hack in the first place. Maximalists think this lack of governance makes Bitcoin superior, when in reality it just makes Bitcoin more conservative and more likely to survive a direct assault from the legacy economy.
Networks like Hive are a much bigger gambit, and with that risk comes great reward. All we have to do is survive and we win. By tethering ourselves more to Bitcoin (the store of security) we can more easily ensure our survival within this emergent digital ecosystem (infant metaverse).
So what happens when billionaires are greedy within the legacy economy? Everyone loses. It's a zero sum game with no synergy. What happens when billionaires are greedy within the crypto economy? Everyone wins, because crypto isn't debt and it is controlled directly by whoever controls the keys. This distinction is going to have massive ramifications on future development. Crypto is a win/win synergistic system the likes of which hasn't even been 1% realized.
