I've been watching for awhile now, trying to figure out how to live more efficiently and frugally.
Although I didn't think about it, this search could only end when efficiency was maximized, and cost equals zero.
After reading this article, I realized it. It is fast approaching, and the economic world as we know it will soon be gone. The economic world is still up in a stir, not aware that it's demise is approaching.
A literally free world. Sure, there's some setup cost, but after you get going, there's no stopping it.
Here are some hints at how to live free, forever (most hints are in no particular order):
Get a 3D printer
A good starter one is this one: https://store.makibox.com/
However, you'll want to expand as your saved funds grow. The makibox only prints small objects in plastic, (and molds you can use for metal) however. As your repertoire of 3D printers expands, you'll be able to print more things you need. They can build in everything from glass to food. They can build everything from small household items to cars to sometime soon: houses. One large payment will quite often be cheaper than many small payments. Not to mention if you organize your printer purchases right, you may be able to print of later ones for free.
Here is a good site to get downloads that the 3D printer can build: http://www.thingiverse.com/
In fact, if you're willing to build your 3d printer from parts, after you get your first printer, you can print most of the parts necessary to build a larger printer, eventually getting a much larger printer, capable of handling bigger jobs.
Not to mention the free open source 3d graphics program blender or the free version of Google's sketchup can help you make anything you need and that isn't available for download.
Get Extruders
Although often cheaper than buying the printed materials (although more expensive in some cases), the cost of printing material quickly racks up. A good plastic filament extruder/grinder is the Filabot as it does many types of plastic. However, if you're willing to grind by hand, and you're just getting started with a makibox and not a more complicated plastic extruder, you can make one from 3d printer parts and a few store bought parts and some elbow grease. Combined with a 3d printer, as a result of this, a visit to the local dump or recycling center can net you many times more home items than many many trips to the store.
Grow food
This may sound obvious but inaccessible but hold on... farming has been around forever, but the techniques are still advancing. Recently, a new milestone was broken when over a million pounds of organic food was grown on only 3 acres of land (that's more than has been grown nonorganic!) Not to mention there are tools to compost your food at home to grow those plants. In fact, even if you're stuck in a small apartment is no longer an excuse, as a creative technique allows you to grow over 100 pounds of potatoes in only 4 square feet. (That'll fit on your apartment complex porch!)
Free Energy
Solar power, wind power, hydro energy, and more can make your home not only cheaper to run; it will make it even profitable, and green. Further, you can build easily repairable rechargeable battery packs from collections of smaller batteries.
Metal Smelter
Some items aren't able to be 3d printed (yet) so a good "old-fashioned" smelter is still useful.
Chemistry
This part requires you to be careful, but day-to-day functions will often require various chemicals. Many of these can be made at home following simple directions you can find online (hint, wikipedia is your friend) if you have a basic chemistry set. (which doesn't even need to be bought if you've already gotten a glass 3d printer). You may even be able to make your own batteries in a pinch. Further, using chemistry, you can create your own medicines that otherwise would be much more expensive (again, wikipedia is your friend, as is patent searches. Many medicines that have had their patents expire can have their patents looked at and be legally made... and sold.)
Home
So, you may be thinking this is all fine and dandy, but living will still require a house and that means payments and taxes and... well, you're not completely right. If you live in a houseboat and anchor in international waters (20 miles from shore), that isn't an issue. Add on a barge-like structure to grow your food on, put your power generation on, etc. and use your solar power for an electric outboard motor and be willing to take the time to move around, and you can literally live fine. You may need to pull in to dock on occasion for repairs, but if you build your houseboat yourself you'll know it well enough to be able to do all the expensive stuff yourself. And if you build an extra couple boats for the express purpose of being able to hoist up other houseboats (including eachother), then you've got everything covered. Plus, you can easily go fishing.
So power, food, medicine, home, and pretty much everything else.
Monday, March 31, 2014
Monday, March 10, 2014
Corporate/Employee vs Customer/Corporate Role Reverals
This is a minor post about musings if you will, about critiquing current business practices and how much we as employees and as consumers put up with. Because when you look at the basics of it, the basics of a both relationships is almost identical.
A corporation pays an employee for goods and/or services.
A customer pays a corporation for goods and/or services.
You'd think with those two descriptions, the relationships would be treated almost identically, but this is far from the case as we all know. As such, I'm going to throw out some role reversals, switching corporation for customer and employee for corporation, and vice versa, so we can get a feel for how ridiculous things actually are...
Cell phone contracts
Hello, boss... before you employ me, you'll have to sign this contract. This contract guarantees that you'll hire me for a whole 2 years. In the event that you decide to fire me, you will have to pay three months worth of wages by default
Employment non-compete clause
Hello. Oh, my gosh that is a cute purse. I so want it, it'd go so well with my shoes, and help me catch the attention of that director so I can get that acting job. Oh, but you might sell other pairs of those shoes to other girls who will be trying out. As such, I'm going to need you to sign this non-compete clause for me to buy it. It's not a big deal, just says you can't sell purses to any other girls that come in here. Don't worry, you can still sell those purses to boys. Oh, after I get the part, for two years after you won't be able to sell purses to girls either.
Software License Terminatibility clause
Hello boss... great day, isn't it? You know that front desk that me and the other construction workers are building in the front office? Yea... just so you know, you have to follow the rules we've laid out for you to use it. In the event that you break any of the rules, we can take the desk back. Don't worry, it won't likely happen, you'll obey the rules, right?
Externally created Intellectual Property Employment Clause
Yes, I'm paying for the new XBOX Live! Well, just so you, Microsoft, as part of me paying you, I'm going to need for you to agree to an IP agreement. Oh, don't worry, it just means that while you're providing me service, any IP you create is counted as available to me as well. Now, anything you make BEFORE now is exempt, and anytime AFTER I give up my live subscription is exempt as well. See? Aren't I nice? Oh, it won't get exercised much, don't worry. It's just a little safety thing, you know, to prevent risk of me accidentally infringing on any patents you fail to inform me of. Oh, by the way, when are you planning on making another version of windows or a new phone...?
Release from Liability license clause
Dear ExxonMobil... upon employment, you agree to hold me free from any legal liability available to release me from in the state where I work for you. You agree not to sue, and in the event you are not pleased with the work I do for you, you agree to use a mediator of my choosing. (Two weeks later after an exploded gas station) Hello ExxonMobil, I would like you to meet my mediator, this is Chelsey, and she's a volunteer with Greenpeace...
Lobbying to keep down minimum wage
Hello BP. Nice day we're having, isn't it? What's that? Gas is still 89 cents a gallon? That's so nice and good for the economy. Oh, you want to charge more? That's so sad, but we lobbied congress, and sorry, we're not raising the gas prices. That doesn't pay the costs to manufacture it and get it over here? What, you want pay your corporation can survive on? You're so greedy. You're not American enough. You're just not motivated enough, you're so lazy. Maybe we should lobby to cut oil subsidies, would that motivate you to make more money? Your company could survive then, couldn't it?
This is a novelty
Hello boss. My work is not to be taken seriously. You employ me at your own risk. Do not expect me to do any actual work, my work is for joke purposes only.
Have you ever been convicted of a crime
Hello Disney. Yes, yes, you want me to buy your movies. Huh... apparently there's negligence on your record... oh my... you inadvertently killed someone? Multiple times in your theme parks? Accident... right....
Well, I wish you luck trying to get people to watch your movies, but sorry, we can't take the risk of letting you influence our children. You understand, right? Who knows if your movie will "inadvertently" kill them "through negligence" too?
Do not Reverse Engineer / Warrenty voided if opened
Hello, Sir? Yes, yes, you know that program I wrote for you a few years back? Yes, the one that your company relies on? Yea, even though I've moved on to other things, don't try to modify it. It doesn't match your current inventory? So sad, but you can't open it or modify it. You'll get in trouble if you do. You'll just have to buy something new from scratch.
We'll need your credit history
Yes, yes, Wal-Mart, I'm sure you think your prices are low. But I'm going to need your full credit history before I can shop here. Yes, I know what you pay your employees is a closely guarded secret, don't worry, I won't tell anyone anything. You know, just to know if you're responsible and to get an idea of how you're managing your finances. It's really important to know if I should buy that toenail clipper from you afterall.
A corporation pays an employee for goods and/or services.
A customer pays a corporation for goods and/or services.
You'd think with those two descriptions, the relationships would be treated almost identically, but this is far from the case as we all know. As such, I'm going to throw out some role reversals, switching corporation for customer and employee for corporation, and vice versa, so we can get a feel for how ridiculous things actually are...
Cell phone contracts
Hello, boss... before you employ me, you'll have to sign this contract. This contract guarantees that you'll hire me for a whole 2 years. In the event that you decide to fire me, you will have to pay three months worth of wages by default
Employment non-compete clause
Hello. Oh, my gosh that is a cute purse. I so want it, it'd go so well with my shoes, and help me catch the attention of that director so I can get that acting job. Oh, but you might sell other pairs of those shoes to other girls who will be trying out. As such, I'm going to need you to sign this non-compete clause for me to buy it. It's not a big deal, just says you can't sell purses to any other girls that come in here. Don't worry, you can still sell those purses to boys. Oh, after I get the part, for two years after you won't be able to sell purses to girls either.
Software License Terminatibility clause
Hello boss... great day, isn't it? You know that front desk that me and the other construction workers are building in the front office? Yea... just so you know, you have to follow the rules we've laid out for you to use it. In the event that you break any of the rules, we can take the desk back. Don't worry, it won't likely happen, you'll obey the rules, right?
Externally created Intellectual Property Employment Clause
Yes, I'm paying for the new XBOX Live! Well, just so you, Microsoft, as part of me paying you, I'm going to need for you to agree to an IP agreement. Oh, don't worry, it just means that while you're providing me service, any IP you create is counted as available to me as well. Now, anything you make BEFORE now is exempt, and anytime AFTER I give up my live subscription is exempt as well. See? Aren't I nice? Oh, it won't get exercised much, don't worry. It's just a little safety thing, you know, to prevent risk of me accidentally infringing on any patents you fail to inform me of. Oh, by the way, when are you planning on making another version of windows or a new phone...?
Release from Liability license clause
Dear ExxonMobil... upon employment, you agree to hold me free from any legal liability available to release me from in the state where I work for you. You agree not to sue, and in the event you are not pleased with the work I do for you, you agree to use a mediator of my choosing. (Two weeks later after an exploded gas station) Hello ExxonMobil, I would like you to meet my mediator, this is Chelsey, and she's a volunteer with Greenpeace...
Lobbying to keep down minimum wage
Hello BP. Nice day we're having, isn't it? What's that? Gas is still 89 cents a gallon? That's so nice and good for the economy. Oh, you want to charge more? That's so sad, but we lobbied congress, and sorry, we're not raising the gas prices. That doesn't pay the costs to manufacture it and get it over here? What, you want pay your corporation can survive on? You're so greedy. You're not American enough. You're just not motivated enough, you're so lazy. Maybe we should lobby to cut oil subsidies, would that motivate you to make more money? Your company could survive then, couldn't it?
This is a novelty
Hello boss. My work is not to be taken seriously. You employ me at your own risk. Do not expect me to do any actual work, my work is for joke purposes only.
Have you ever been convicted of a crime
Hello Disney. Yes, yes, you want me to buy your movies. Huh... apparently there's negligence on your record... oh my... you inadvertently killed someone? Multiple times in your theme parks? Accident... right....
Well, I wish you luck trying to get people to watch your movies, but sorry, we can't take the risk of letting you influence our children. You understand, right? Who knows if your movie will "inadvertently" kill them "through negligence" too?
Do not Reverse Engineer / Warrenty voided if opened
Hello, Sir? Yes, yes, you know that program I wrote for you a few years back? Yes, the one that your company relies on? Yea, even though I've moved on to other things, don't try to modify it. It doesn't match your current inventory? So sad, but you can't open it or modify it. You'll get in trouble if you do. You'll just have to buy something new from scratch.
We'll need your credit history
Yes, yes, Wal-Mart, I'm sure you think your prices are low. But I'm going to need your full credit history before I can shop here. Yes, I know what you pay your employees is a closely guarded secret, don't worry, I won't tell anyone anything. You know, just to know if you're responsible and to get an idea of how you're managing your finances. It's really important to know if I should buy that toenail clipper from you afterall.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
The Free Market is the Ideal Market
"The Free Market is the ideal market."
You have likely heard the phrase before. Economists use it to talk about economic equations. The ideal market.*
Economists then talk to people with Business degrees. It should be pointed out that Economists and Business majors are two very different creatures. To the average joe, they look about the same, but to eachother, they're about as much the same as icecream is to butter. Or, more accurately, it's like the difference between a physicist and an astronaut.
You see, the focus of their studies are extremely different. In our astronaut vs physicist example, the business person plays the role of the astronaut. Their goal is to figure out how to survive in the tricky world of economics. The economist's goal, on the other hand, is to understand the tricky world of economics. Just because you're an astronaut doesn't mean you have a full understanding of a blue star's coronal mass ejections, and just because you're a physicist doesn't mean you know how to pilot a T-35.
Similarly, a person with a business degree and a person with an economics degree are two very different people. Going back to our Physics/Astronaut example; in Physics, they have what they call "The Ideal Environment." It is the perfect place for doing physics. If you heard someone mention working in "the Ideal Environment" you might imagine a cushy office overlooking a beautiful park with trees and birds chirping while a beautiful secretary of the appropriate gender for your tastes massages your feet while you watch a ticker of your invested stocks climb slowly higher and higher.
You might then turn to such a a person and ask them to please get you into the ideal environment.
If they're sufficiently sadistic and have enough funding, you'll shortly be dead with your wish granted.
You see, when a physicist talks about an ideal environment, they're talking a weightless, frictionless, airless environment. Basically, it's a place where physics math is easy. It's not ideal to your survival, it's a place where physicists can make predictions and the results happen almost always exactly as predicted. An astronaut does NOT want to be in this environment. They like breathing too much to be airless. This is why they wear space suits, because the "ideal physics" environment would kill them, and they need to take along a bit of their normal environment.
Again, the relation between physicists and astronauts is similar to economists and businessmen. Economists (at least good ones) are quite good at predicting the economy as a whole. And their ideal environment is an environment that makes their math easy. Looking through things, it seems this misunderstanding is where businessmen got the idea that a free market is somehow some kind of holy grail. That they heard an economist at some point say "The ideal market is the Free Market." What this hypothetical economist probably meant was, "Using the free market makes my math really easy and I can predict things!" but what the businessman thought he meant was, "People will make lots of profits in a free market and businessmen can retire years earlier and get a few extra yachts and everybody will be rich." In reality, a Free Market doesn't mean easy money. It means a market free of external influence. That doesn't even mean more customers (in fact, it means less, because you've gotten rid of the government as a customer).
That wasn't the only thing that got misunderstood. There's the phrase "distort the free market." Economists use this phrase a fair amount. It means anything that gets away from their perfect ideal math situation. Literally, it distorts the math of their system free of outside influence. It makes economists frustrated because it makes their jobs harder. And businessmen get frustrated of it because... they see it makes economists frustrated and assume that's a bad thing for business... and "distorting" something "free" sounds soooooo bad, so it must be bad.. right? Well... remember, fricitonless airless space without gravity is ideal to physicists, that doesn't mean you want to raise a family in it.
So, what's that mean for a free market? Pretty much everything. A free market doesn't mean everybody makes money. A free market doesn't mean its guaranteed to succeed. A free market doesn't mean everyone's going to get the food they need, that everyone will get wealth, or that children will go singing in the streets or even that people (or even the world) will be able to survive. It merely means an environment in which the outcome is easy to predict.
Which is one reason the misunderstanding as perpetuated so much. Stockbrokers LOVE predictability.
A stockbroker makes money by the buy and sell of stocks and predicting what they'll do next, trading based off the difference in prices between now and later, and skimming off the top. Taking a route that makes them more predictable is VERY enticing to a stockbroker, because it changes things from making just a little money to making boatloads of it... that would otherwise go to people who invested in the business because they, you know, believed in it. And they like that. They like it a LOT. Not so good for other people, but good for them.
So, if there's a myth going around that's causing people to make things easy for you and give you things for free, and your focus in life was making money, would you try to correct them or help perpetuate the myth?
I'll leave you be for awhile you figure out the answer to that. Take your time.
...
Okay, done? Great.
So, a society with a Free Market doesn't mean it's a good society, just a predictable society. If your full goal in life is to "accurately predict money flow based on market forces" that may be a good thing, but for everybody else, it can spell disaster. We'll start off with an extreme example and go into subtleties after you've grasped the basics....
Imagine you're in a warzone. If your goal is to survive and win, you might want to build weaponry, train an army, build bunkers, research tactics, etc. If your goal is to "accurately predict money flow based on market forces" then the best route is to simply not defend and watch what happens with morgues.
Okay, now we'll break it down to a little bit closer to home that's almost the exact same thing. People starving to death. Sure, food stamps distort the free market. Investing in preparation of people starving won't be as profitable. But you know what? Less people will starve. Police that protect CEOs from being assassinated and robbed every minute? That's a distortion of the free market. Building roads that make transportation easier, reducing transportation costs? That's also a distortion of the free market.
Also, there's another source of government influence on the free market that most businessmen fail to remember. The government prints money. There have only been two major times that economies didn't run on government-printed money. One is in older eras where they traded precious metals (known to economists as their "medium of exchange") and in the U.S.'s westward expansion, businesses often printed their own money (often that could only be spent at the company store. And that's all they would pay their employees with. This effectively resulted in a barter system between different currencies. It was a mess for most people involved, and that's why the U.S. passed a law saying to only use its currency.)
The problem with gold and other precious metals were that they were a limited commodity. Sure, that's useful if you're banker or an investor, but it's not so great for actually spending and here's why:
The strength of an economy has little to do with the value of the money. People are going to trade for things they need and trade away things they don't need as much. It's the number of trades that actually make an economy's strength. And people keep making, trading, and reselling. In a system of gold, where gold is limited, the value of gold will constantly go up. This is because as the economy gets stronger but the gold supply stays the same, gold becomes proportionately more rare. This is what's known as a deflation economy. The best thing to do in a system like this is just to sit on your money forever and never spend it. The problem with this is that then noone wants to spend their money if they can avoid it. It hurts innovation. That's one reason the dark ages moved so slowly. It was more profitable to steal someone else's gold than it was to invent something new, and then sit on that gold till the end of time.
Both these points makes it clear... for a healthy economy, government (or something similar, which would for all intents and purposes be the government in the system: such as a bitcoin algorithm that controls the bitcoin economy) needs to be a system for making a recognized currency. And that's government in economy. And THAT means a market that isn't a true free market.
Literally, a thriving free market is an economist's fantasy world to make math easier. It is not possible to truly exist. You'll either end up with uninovating dark ages where the market is struggling or a paper barter system.
TL;DR: Police stopping you from being shot is a distortion of the coffin free market.
* Note, no references for this particular article. This article is written based on me looking up definitions of words and just listening to people being people, and looking at context used when people talk about things. As a result, I have no good articles to point to for this article. It's just my own observations and an attempt to explain what people usually mean when they say things and to clear up a common misunderstanding that arises.
You have likely heard the phrase before. Economists use it to talk about economic equations. The ideal market.*
Economists then talk to people with Business degrees. It should be pointed out that Economists and Business majors are two very different creatures. To the average joe, they look about the same, but to eachother, they're about as much the same as icecream is to butter. Or, more accurately, it's like the difference between a physicist and an astronaut.
 |
| "Why's it rumble when we do that?" "Because it makes me look dramatic." "... you sure we shouldn't make sure the screws are all tight?" "DRAMATIC!" |
Similarly, a person with a business degree and a person with an economics degree are two very different people. Going back to our Physics/Astronaut example; in Physics, they have what they call "The Ideal Environment." It is the perfect place for doing physics. If you heard someone mention working in "the Ideal Environment" you might imagine a cushy office overlooking a beautiful park with trees and birds chirping while a beautiful secretary of the appropriate gender for your tastes massages your feet while you watch a ticker of your invested stocks climb slowly higher and higher.
You might then turn to such a a person and ask them to please get you into the ideal environment.
If they're sufficiently sadistic and have enough funding, you'll shortly be dead with your wish granted.
 |
| A weightless frictionless airless environment... sounds pleasant, right? |
Again, the relation between physicists and astronauts is similar to economists and businessmen. Economists (at least good ones) are quite good at predicting the economy as a whole. And their ideal environment is an environment that makes their math easy. Looking through things, it seems this misunderstanding is where businessmen got the idea that a free market is somehow some kind of holy grail. That they heard an economist at some point say "The ideal market is the Free Market." What this hypothetical economist probably meant was, "Using the free market makes my math really easy and I can predict things!" but what the businessman thought he meant was, "People will make lots of profits in a free market and businessmen can retire years earlier and get a few extra yachts and everybody will be rich." In reality, a Free Market doesn't mean easy money. It means a market free of external influence. That doesn't even mean more customers (in fact, it means less, because you've gotten rid of the government as a customer).
 |
| "But, I want to get a government grant to make my cookies and feed people..." "Sorry, only sticks. How many sticks is your cookie worth? I've got plenty of sticks!" |
That wasn't the only thing that got misunderstood. There's the phrase "distort the free market." Economists use this phrase a fair amount. It means anything that gets away from their perfect ideal math situation. Literally, it distorts the math of their system free of outside influence. It makes economists frustrated because it makes their jobs harder. And businessmen get frustrated of it because... they see it makes economists frustrated and assume that's a bad thing for business... and "distorting" something "free" sounds soooooo bad, so it must be bad.. right? Well... remember, fricitonless airless space without gravity is ideal to physicists, that doesn't mean you want to raise a family in it.
So, what's that mean for a free market? Pretty much everything. A free market doesn't mean everybody makes money. A free market doesn't mean its guaranteed to succeed. A free market doesn't mean everyone's going to get the food they need, that everyone will get wealth, or that children will go singing in the streets or even that people (or even the world) will be able to survive. It merely means an environment in which the outcome is easy to predict.
Which is one reason the misunderstanding as perpetuated so much. Stockbrokers LOVE predictability.
 |
| "Thanks, it means the world to me." "... if I convinced this person to tell you to give me your pants and lovely wife too, would you do it?" "Yes... why do you ask?" |
A stockbroker makes money by the buy and sell of stocks and predicting what they'll do next, trading based off the difference in prices between now and later, and skimming off the top. Taking a route that makes them more predictable is VERY enticing to a stockbroker, because it changes things from making just a little money to making boatloads of it... that would otherwise go to people who invested in the business because they, you know, believed in it. And they like that. They like it a LOT. Not so good for other people, but good for them.
I'll leave you be for awhile you figure out the answer to that. Take your time.
...
Okay, done? Great.
So, a society with a Free Market doesn't mean it's a good society, just a predictable society. If your full goal in life is to "accurately predict money flow based on market forces" that may be a good thing, but for everybody else, it can spell disaster. We'll start off with an extreme example and go into subtleties after you've grasped the basics....
Imagine you're in a warzone. If your goal is to survive and win, you might want to build weaponry, train an army, build bunkers, research tactics, etc. If your goal is to "accurately predict money flow based on market forces" then the best route is to simply not defend and watch what happens with morgues.
 |
| "But won't people die?" "Yea, but those who survive will make a proportionate killing investing in burial plot ventures." "What if nobody survives?" "Well, according to the math, that's infinite profit. You could even say 'everlasting rewards'." |
Okay, now we'll break it down to a little bit closer to home that's almost the exact same thing. People starving to death. Sure, food stamps distort the free market. Investing in preparation of people starving won't be as profitable. But you know what? Less people will starve. Police that protect CEOs from being assassinated and robbed every minute? That's a distortion of the free market. Building roads that make transportation easier, reducing transportation costs? That's also a distortion of the free market.
Also, there's another source of government influence on the free market that most businessmen fail to remember. The government prints money. There have only been two major times that economies didn't run on government-printed money. One is in older eras where they traded precious metals (known to economists as their "medium of exchange") and in the U.S.'s westward expansion, businesses often printed their own money (often that could only be spent at the company store. And that's all they would pay their employees with. This effectively resulted in a barter system between different currencies. It was a mess for most people involved, and that's why the U.S. passed a law saying to only use its currency.)
The problem with gold and other precious metals were that they were a limited commodity. Sure, that's useful if you're banker or an investor, but it's not so great for actually spending and here's why:
The strength of an economy has little to do with the value of the money. People are going to trade for things they need and trade away things they don't need as much. It's the number of trades that actually make an economy's strength. And people keep making, trading, and reselling. In a system of gold, where gold is limited, the value of gold will constantly go up. This is because as the economy gets stronger but the gold supply stays the same, gold becomes proportionately more rare. This is what's known as a deflation economy. The best thing to do in a system like this is just to sit on your money forever and never spend it. The problem with this is that then noone wants to spend their money if they can avoid it. It hurts innovation. That's one reason the dark ages moved so slowly. It was more profitable to steal someone else's gold than it was to invent something new, and then sit on that gold till the end of time.
Both these points makes it clear... for a healthy economy, government (or something similar, which would for all intents and purposes be the government in the system: such as a bitcoin algorithm that controls the bitcoin economy) needs to be a system for making a recognized currency. And that's government in economy. And THAT means a market that isn't a true free market.
Literally, a thriving free market is an economist's fantasy world to make math easier. It is not possible to truly exist. You'll either end up with uninovating dark ages where the market is struggling or a paper barter system.
TL;DR: Police stopping you from being shot is a distortion of the coffin free market.
* Note, no references for this particular article. This article is written based on me looking up definitions of words and just listening to people being people, and looking at context used when people talk about things. As a result, I have no good articles to point to for this article. It's just my own observations and an attempt to explain what people usually mean when they say things and to clear up a common misunderstanding that arises.
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