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May 9Liked by Jim Davidson

“We are in the process of ending their ability to tax or regulate any economic event. “

What does this mean?

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It means that some cryptic statements are more equal than others! jk lol

We have developed newer and newer techniques to accomplish our basic goal of being able to buy and sell anything without the transaction being detected, let alone taxed or regulated. I talk about the state of that art as of two months ago here:

https://l5news.substack.com/p/free-market-money

Happily, I spent the last three weeks in the mind of a genius who has worked out even more intriguing and useful techniques, recently published and soon to be deployed. Decentralised finance is gonna be huge.

When? Real soon now.

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Thank you! I’ll do some studying!

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May 9Liked by Jim Davidson

I enjoyed your article; it’s enlightening. Thank you for the encouragement at the end.

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Thank you for your kind words and for reading my stuff. You're welcome. It's what I do, as Captain Reynolds says to River Tam.

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I wonder, Jim, when you wrote:

"... text led directly to many of the bad ideas that Abraham Lincoln had for emancipating slaves and enslaving free men" whether you had in mind ...

Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War, the title of a book on the subject by history professor Jeffrey Rogers Hummel (Open Court Press, 1996). While some extremist groups today make assertions advocating deconstruction of the Old South based on the 1860s War being (putatively) over black slavery, Hummel goes deeper, to show that economic factors drove the split between North and South. The British textile industry bought much of their cotton from the Southern states and the Northern financial cabal wanted a cut in the take, thereby breaking the 10th Commandment, the only one of the ten being a restriction on a state of mind and not behavior as such, as the other 9 are.

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