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Discussion => Newbie discussion => Topic started by: foxen624 on June 20, 2013, 10:21 am
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The way I see it, any person who has anything issued by a government or other capatolistic entity ie: driver's license, social security number, bank account, credit/debit card, voter's registration, income tax filings, owns/drives a vehicle... list goes on and on of numbers and other bits of info that get attached to a person's "paper identiy" that can be used to track and find said person at any time. Therefore, doesn't that at some point make most people not truly free individuals, but more like 'subjects' or 'property' of their government?
Just doing some random thinking here, but seems like assuming a person can do well enough as a vendor on SR to live a decent life, since everything is transacted in BTC, there would be no real need for such things like bank accounts, credit/debit cards, filing income tax... even having a name, really. One could probably easily enough pay cash for a modest house and not even have their real name go onto any land deed. Of course there would always be those who will drive regardless... that I see as really the only downfall to being otherwise free of any allegiance or obligation to any government.
Just a not yet fully thought out concept.....
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At least in the U.s. the monitoring / surveillance of citizens seems to be going rampant. Cash is also still fairly anonymous; but it is not as practicable to exchange in the digital world as something such as BTC. We are never really truly free; I mean total freedom is just anarchy. I'm guessing one main issue of being a vendor, at least a large one, is safely extracting the BTC to cash.
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True, true... One thing I've not yet done is to try converting BTC to cash, so.... on that I'm really not sure...