Power protects power. You’re just the revenue stream.
Its Incentives Are Power and Obedience, Not Freedom
We like to think of government as a servant of the people. But in reality, it’s a self-preserving machine. Its primary objective isn’t your liberty—it’s its own growth, dominance, and preservation. Like any bureaucracy, it acts to expand its influence, protect its power, and enforce obedience.
Freedom, when it aligns with state interest, is allowed. When it doesn’t, it’s regulated. For example: speech is free—until it threatens authority. Business is encouraged—until it competes with the state. Wealth is permitted—until it can’t be taxed, tracked, or controlled.
Confusion and Dependence Are Features—Not Bugs
A clear, informed, sovereign population is a threat to centralised power. So the state doesn’t incentivise clarity—it fosters confusion. A convoluted tax code, opaque monetary policy, and contradictory laws all serve to keep you uncertain and compliant.
State-sponsored media compounds this confusion by amplifying fear, division, and crisis. Manufactured outrage and 24/7 panic cycles distract citizens from systemic issues and keep them reactive, tribal, and compliant. When people are scared, they trade freedom for a false sense of security. The state knows this—and uses it.
And once you’re scared and confused, dependence follows. When inflation erodes your savings and debt becomes necessary to survive, you’re easier to control. When you need the state for education, healthcare, food, and housing, resistance becomes costly.
It Serves Itself Before It Serves You
Every institution serves its own survival first. Governments are no exception. When crises emerge, who gets rescued first? Banks. Government contractors. Politicians and their donors. The average citizen is always last in line.
You pay tribute to the system through taxes. You bear the involuntary cost of inflation. You play by their arbitrary rules. But when the system breaks, it protects itself—and demands you sacrifice more.
Bitcoin Is Simultaneously The Antidote And The Exit
You don’t need to hate the state, although many who have thought deeply about it have come to that conclusion. You don’t need to protest it by marching in the street or getting yourself arrested. You just need to stop feeding it. Storing your energy in bitcoin lets you do that.
Bitcoin is a peaceful, permissionless antithesis to the state that doesn’t rely on elections or reform. It doesn’t exist to tear down the existing system—it exists to allow you to peacefully and quietly opt out.
Every dollar you move into Bitcoin is a dollar removed from the state’s extraction machine. It’s one less unit they can inflate, track, or seize. It’s one less vote of confidence in a system that’s failed you. As more people store value outside the fiat system, the state’s ability to fund itself through inflation and coercion weakens. Simultaneously, individuals gain greater economic sovereignty, privacy, and control. Bitcoin shifts power away from the top—and back to you.
The Bottom Line
- The government is not a neutral umpire. It’s a player—one with a monopoly on the money, on violence, on the media, and on the rules.
- Its incentives are power, not service. Bitcoin gives you a different set of incentives: transparency, sovereignty, and choice.
- You don’t need to fight the system. You just need to stop funding it.
