I think that's a cope. "I had no other choice!" - No, everyone always has a choice, we're not controlled by our surroundings, we're not a metal ball in a pinball machine just bouncing around, or a piece of trash being blown about by the wind. Again, yes, there are shady elites, but we're not literal puppets; by "we" I mean every single human being. I know I'm not one, and I expect everyone else not to be one either, including the bureaucrats who make the current system work by letting themselves be manipulated. They're failing to say no, and I hold that against them.
No, I'm not uneducated; you can't really be, because government forcing you to do something is not exactly a concept one needs an education to grasp.
Here's the thing, though: Completely avoiding government-issued currency is incredibly difficult, the pressure to use it is very strong, so I don't really fault people for doing it. I do it too. However, being a bureaucratic piece of shit, hiding behind laws and regulations and using that to excuse your laziness or pettiness - not doing that is very easy, it even comes naturally to normal people with character and a functioning moral compass. There are worker shortages all over the world. Nobody has to work for the government - and the people who do can always bend the rules in the little guy's favor. The problem is, most of them don't. That's solely on them, it's their fault.
The rest of your post about starting your own currency and getting arrested for it is just completely wrong. No, you won't get arrested and/or killed if you start your own currency. There are new shitcoins being made every day! What's really going to happen is that everyone will laugh at you. The government will only start caring if it becomes big enough to threaten them, and that's not going to happen, because even BTC isn't big enough to threaten governments, despite being so mainstream that my nearly 70 years old, computer-illiterate uncle has heard of it.
I think that's a cope. "I had no other choice!" - No, everyone always has a choice, we're not controlled by our surroundings, we're not a metal ball in a pinball machine just bouncing around, or a piece of trash being blown about by the wind. Again, yes, there are shady elites, but we're not literal puppets; by "we" I mean every single human being. I know I'm not one, and I expect everyone else not to be one either, including the bureaucrats who make the current system work by letting themselves be manipulated. They're failing to say no, and I hold that against them.
No, I'm not uneducated; you can't really be, because government forcing you to do something is not exactly a concept one needs an education to grasp.
Here's the thing, though: Completely avoiding government-issued currency is incredibly difficult, the pressure to use it is very strong, so I don't really fault people for doing it. I do it too. However, being a bureaucratic piece of shit, hiding behind laws and regulations and using that to excuse your laziness or pettiness - not doing that is very easy, it even comes naturally to normal people with character and a functioning moral compass. There are worker shortages all over the world. Nobody has to work for the government - and the people who do can always bend the rules in the little guy's favor. The problem is, most of them don't. That's solely on them, it's their fault.
The rest of your post about starting your own currency and getting arrested for it is just completely wrong. No, you won't get arrested and/or killed if you start your own currency. There are new shitcoins being made every day! What's really going to happen is that everyone will laugh at you. The government will only start caring if it becomes big enough to threaten them, and that's not going to happen, because even BTC isn't big enough to threaten governments, despite being so mainstream that my nearly 70 years old, computer-illiterate uncle has heard of it.