Fiat Money and the Family

One of the most pernicious things about the fiat monetary system is its decimation of the family.

Just over one year ago an acquaintance stopped speaking to me because I stated in jest that “I am supportive of the patriarchy, as long as its ‘opt-in’”.

It’s not uncommon these days to find comments like the below online:

What is driving this, and what does this have to do with money you might ask?

Here is what I might respond to Alexander99:

Back in the day women wanted to ensure that they could provide for themselves and their children in the event their partner became abusive, incapacitated or died.

The fiat monetary system in which money can be created at the stroke of a button or a printing press, and its adjacent military industrial complex, ensured that a large portion of men were sent to fight their neighbours at home or overseas. Many died. The rest came back with PTSD, disabled or both.

This ensured that the majority of women now had to provide for their families and look after them, often along with a physically and mentally broken man.

While women were capable of doing this, at least for some period of time, it wasn’t good for them and many started medicating themselves to cope. One if four American women over the age of 60 is on anti-depressants with 17% of all women of all ages having used them in the last 30 days. These medications are known to cause all sorts of worrying side effects such as sexual disfunction, weight-gain as well as suicidal and homicidal thoughts.

At the same time, men began to feel increasingly useless as their role as provider and protector of the family was increasingly taken over by women who had become adept knowledge workers.

The cycle then became self-perpetuating. Women started wondering what the point of men was, as did men.

To be clear, women were not happy with this situation, but they often felt they had no choice.

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In addition, fiat money ensured that one salary was no longer sufficient to support a household. This meant that both partners had to work.

Children were sent to institutions known as “schools” during the day where they were indoctrinated with all manner of nonsense and left vulnerable to abuse and bullying.

And so it was that the family unit was completely decimated.

Now everyone is angry and busy fighting with each other. One one side ‘toxic feminism’. On the other, the 'manosphere’.

This is convenient to those who debase currencies through the creation of fiat money, as nobody, at all, is paying any attention to what they are doing.

You are being played.

The solution to this predicament (Alexander) is stop the infighting and focus on the real source of the problem (Fiat Money) and its solution (a Bitcoin Standard).

Under a bitcoin standard, women could save in Bitcoin ensuring that the fruits of their labour were not devalued, and in fact would increase in value over time. This would allow for a more relaxed child rearing experience. This concept was outlined incredibly well in Seb Bunney’s book “The Hidden Cost of Money” where he talks about his childhood struggles, often driven by monetary debasement and its impact on his parents.

In case you didn’t know, Bitcoin can be stored in your head, so this would mitigate many of the issues of protecting ones savings in abusive or dangerous situations.

Both parents could work fewer hours and keep more of the fruits of their labour. The family nest egg would also grow, ensuring that future generations were provided for.

This would allow men to step back into the role of “protecting the perimeter” as Adam Lane Smith describes it, and women could focus on making the home warm, safe and fun for all who dwell in it.

This is not to say that some men would not prefer to be the primary carer, nor that women may not want to become CEOs, the key difference is that they would have a choice.