What really matters #2
Personal freedom is the only real counter balance of power. It necessitates two things: full money ownership and solid privacy. Legacy banks intermediate the first. State surveillance, the second.
GODSPEED - Polygon1993 - veni, vidi, glitchi.
Freedom = Money + Privacy
In our contemporary, hyper-tech world where mass surveillance has become endemic, money is a state monopoly and monetary policies are decided by the very few, personal freedom has become a fading flag, which is as consequential as climate change. Still, the same technologies can also offer a way out (ever wondered why this newsletter is called “The Exit”?).
Edward Snowden has warned that surveillance technology is so much more advanced and intrusive today it makes that used by US and British intelligence agencies he revealed in 2013 look like child’s play.