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## How's your crypto doing? 

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## ... 6 weeks later
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## Perhaps this is the bull market signal?


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It is from the opening ceremony of the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham that started tonight and has a pretty cool symbolic meaning:

>Female chain makers dragged the bull into the stadium, which represented the chains used during the slave trade. The bull then broke free from those chains — symbolic of the abolition of the slave trade and the wage strike of 1910 that paved the way for women to free themselves from poverty. [image and quote](https://novonite.com/commonwealth-games-opening-ceremony-live-why-is-there-a-giant-bull/)

The problem is, the slave trade was *never abolished,* it just changed form. And it did so because the economy was under pressure to change, otherwise at some point, it would face a revolution, which always happens to oppressors *eventually.* And, this isn't ideal, because when people revolt, there is not only the chance of being overthrown, but even in the best scenario, there is damage done to the status quo and repairs have to be made, concessions too. 

>Make no mistake, we are oppressed in this economy. 

It is just the way it is structured, as it incentivizes monopolistic behaviors and has few checks and balances to ensure they do not get so large that they have a near absolute power effect, that they become "too big to fail". But, people look at it from the corporation perspective, or perhaps even the banks, but the fact is that the monopoly isn't in those layers, it is in the economy itself, and because we are all in that same economy, it feels very much like there is no other possibility.

It is like being in the universe, even though we might be able to observe it in a myriad ways, we are always within it, there is no escape. But, this is a false analogy, because unlike the all encompassing universe in which we live, the economy is a man-made structure and other than the unbreakable laws of economics that may exist, all of the other laws can change, including the basic understanding of what the definition of money is and how distribution should function. 

So, there is the ability to question our place in the economic universe, but it is also very difficult to get answers, because it is all we have known because we have always been sitting inside the bubble. Sure, we can theorize about what is outside the bubble, if there is another bubble or perhaps, there is a bubble that is identical to this bubble, where people are theorizing about us, but until it gets put into practice, it is all just *speculation.*

Crypto is putting theories in practice and because of the distributed nature of it, it can do multiple versions simultaneously, though many of them are going to fail, because, well, they aren't very good theories. It is much like the communes of the 60s and 70s that pretty much *all failed too,* because at the end of the day, the laws of economics kicked in and they couldn't hold it together. The "close knit" communities were probably more vulnerable because the power struggles would begin and people would use the skills they have to get what they want, with many of them becoming quite cultish in their functions. 

>Trust me, I am your husband. And you are all of my wives. 

*Trust* - It's a killer.

Which is why a trustless network of relationships is more trustworthy, because rather than having to trust someone regardless of how poor your judgement might be, you are able to trust the network instead. This way a "commune" can gather and work together, without even requiring the same beliefs, methods or love for each other. It is all incentive based *like everything, but those incentives and approaches can be individual, with the broader community always playing off against each other, strengthening the network, ensuring that no single individual gets too large. 

The more people involved in the "commune" the more stable it becomes, because of diversity of behavior. It is like a virus that keeps mutating into multiple forms, or a species that evolves to be able to survive multiple climates and various conditions. The diversity growth brings strength because it also brings competition, meaning there is no single way to play and, no single point of failure. 

>We aren't there yet in crypto.

But, we are exploring the universe and while pushing in all directions simultaneously is highly resource intensive and will come with a lot of loss, over time, there will be a consolidation of practices of what works and what doesn't, as well as a knowledgeable userbase of behaviors of what works, and what doesn't.

Right now, most people behave as if we are in a single economic universe that we cannot escape, that there is no alternative at all. Because the majority believe this, *it is true.*  Well, "true" because the minority who believe alternatives are possible, are going to push out to explore them and while many might fail, there will be incremental change, even if in isolated pockets. At some point, like smoldering embers, a little bit of air will sneak in and it will burst into flames, igniting all it touches. 

We also behave on a short time frame too, so when we look at the success or failure of something, we narrow the observation time down to moments, or in economies, days, weeks or perhaps even a month. If it doesn't do something in that timeframe, it has failed. But in crypto, it is like judging a professional athlete's future success at the age of 5, discounting them because they are uncoordinated, short and don't have the same strength as a professional on the field. 

Look at the charts above and the tone of people as they talk about the crypto markets - there is *enthusiasm, as if 6 weeks or so of gains and the last couple days is enough to signal we are going into a bull market. 

>It is unlikely, but I hope we are!

For now however, we are still slaves to a system that is incentivized to chew us up, take anything of value out and then spit us out when there is nothing left. We are still slaves to the debt we have been encouraged to take, the complacency we have been encouraged to have, the hopelessness of trying to change the system we have been encouraged to believe. 

>We have been told that this is the economic universe and there is nothing we can do about it, it just "is" what it is. 

That is a *big load of bull.* 

Taraz
[ Gen1: Hive ]

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