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Omnia Mea Mecum Porto (All mine, I carry it with me)

It is often said, and not without a grain of truth, that the poorest man is ultimately the happiest, although no one can envy him this happiness. Throughout the ages, or perhaps since the very moment that Zeus blinded Pluto to not always favor the good, we tried to convince the poor that they were happy even though they had no ‘money. In a thousand different ways they have been told that in the needy classes there are happy and satisfied faces, while in the rich there are gloomy, bitter and dissatisfied faces; that life is but a gift to the poor, even though it can sometimes seem to have all the characteristics of a contracted debt.

Some of us, however, are so outraged by little that we hear philosophers and priests preaching humility and the love of poverty to people who have nothing to let go of, for it is impossible for us to accept the idea that only a tenth of men should have access to wealth, while the other nine are relegated to serving as the material and the means to obtain it. There are some among us who believe, in fact, that nothing is uglier than not having money, and that when we are in the power of misery, we have our hands tied, and even our tongue. is chained. The humble is convinced that poverty is the greatest good: this lie contains poison, eats away at his soul, troubles him, fills him with torment; it pushes him against the rocks, suffocates him, and robs him of many precious things. Poverty is a painful, unbearable disease, which has nothing pleasant, which torments those who suffer it with his helpless sister, and which is useless, even if it has often been said that she was the gateway to blessed life. The hungry, let it be sure, rejoice better by filling their stomachs with food than by filling their heads with consolations, for these are not reasons, but the food they need in order to feel moderately full. Do not realize, counterfeiters of good, that after not being thirsty it is better to drink, after not being hungry to have something to eat, and after not being cold to eat. ‘have something to dress? Poverty, a painful human disease, cannot be eliminated with hope, nor with inequality, and even less with lack of freedom; we eliminate it with wealth, with property, with the idea that, although its reality is not easy to refute, neither should we live with the resignation of thinking that we must accept it.

“My flock, which now rests there, how happy you are, who do not know, I think, your misery!” »-Leopardi, Nocturnal song of a shepherd wandering in Asia, 105.

But let us forgive the simplicity to which the idealization of poverty leads us. Everyone has the right to idealize what he wants: it is the first law of nature. Every poor shepherd, after all, counts his flock as he pleases, and assesses things according to his own interests, which he necessarily loves, even if rich shepherds do not understand it the same way. Just as every man has his own voice and every man has his own face, so every man must have ideas that distinguish him from others. Otherwise, we who think it is worthwhile in any society, or in any state, to own a limited property, even a fossil of a lizard, would have nothing to to say. Poverty, for us, can be a very nice idea, but of no real use, while wealth can be as precarious as we want, but at least it has the advantage of being part of a force. And Bitcoin, as we said before, we see it as a force; a force which alleviates poverty without encouraging indolence, which understands the concept of wealth more as an opportunity for action than as a pretext for laziness, and which wishes to test men in prosperity so that they do not have to call on them in need. We see it rather as the complete opposite of our absurd ultra-centralized economic world, which thinks it has had enough of collective work in the service of the State, of mechanical training of the hands, and which has no idea. this wealth is achieved by a completely opposite route: by including all peoples in the rules of a single currency, in single laws and a single financial decentralization, so that, hopefully, the whole earth can finally enjoy a true economic justice. There is nothing more pitiful than seeing our fellow human beings suffer from evils that could be easily avoided, suffer continual economic losses, go into debt, spend their days looking for ways to make a living, and inevitably become divided. in two large classes: between those who are hungrier than they have to supper and those who have more to supper than they are hungry. It is terrible to see how unjust poverty is, but the consolation is that we are the creators of this poverty, and therefore we suffer from our own miseries. Humanity has always repeated the same fault: that of seeking its only criterion of life in a miserable economy, invented and managed by institutions which could not be worse for the well-being and the progress of men, because they are the ones who make them leave their homes to be looted and murdered elsewhere, which turn their noble thoughts into shameful actions, which force them to make their fellows the victims of all kinds of outrages and wickedness.

“It is necessary that you rise or fall, / That the power and the profit that you obtain / Or that you serve without profit / That you succumb or that you triumph / That you are anvil or a hammer.” Goethe, Coptic song.

There are those who celebrate men without desires, although it seems to me that no one who walks in this world is without desires. There may be countries where nothing is missing, but so far no one has given me any news that such countries are nowhere to be found. It is true that I have not traveled much, but in this corner of the earth at least, I have not seen a single person who does not have more needs than the means to satisfy them. I do not know a single place where, because of the good progress of things in society, no man is forced to eat the bread he has to beg, nor where one can find a little more comfort. that the eye cannot understand. Everywhere, it is true, there are many people sheltered by wealth, but there are always more who have despised their entire existence, those who have missed it without ever having known it. Neither Asians, who are the old people of the world, nor even less Europeans, who are mature men, today live under an economic system that can be described as fair, where everyone can consider even that a good as his own, and where the increase in what he carries in his pockets is not directly proportional to what is lacking in those of his neighbors. Whatever may be said, and even though he is the most human person in the world, every man wants to have something that is not among the possessions of the people. Those who desire financial equity are not easy to find, and they do not constitute a great multitude, for otherwise not only would wealth cease to be measured by pocket, by power and by force, but the gullible mass and disorganized would have some chance to share the profits, without having to go into debt forever to pay them off.

Since only Bitcoin does not share the injustice of economists and is not affected by the debts of the poor, it is the only one that should take care of solving the ridiculous inequality that reigns today between men. May you, blind inequality, no longer be seen on land or at sea, but live in Tartarus and Acheron, for you share all the misfortunes of the poor. But, since we have no idea where ancient Acheron went, the only thing we hope for Bitcoin is that it will improve the inequalities that prevail in our world, if possible, by a lot, if not, as much as possible, if not, At least a little. Just as violence and the ability to cheat made the first rich, it will help knowledge to enrich those of the following centuries, so that living according to mathematics no one is poor, and living according to the misfortune of others, no one is poor. . rich. Let it be useless to seek masters or servants in the world, since those who command and those who receive wages from them are equal; that the opportunity to enrich one’s neighbor may be found a hundred times a day, and the opportunity to lose him once every hundred years; so that whoever puts a little on a little, and does so frequently, soon the little will become a lot. a small thing compared to the impossible so that others have it too.

This is a guest article by Anderson Benprado. The opinions expressed are entirely theirs and do not necessarily reflect those of BTC, Inc. or Bitcoin Magazine.

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