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This bit is a bit blah humorous for the read.

For this I am going to go way!! back. Even to a time before Steem, Before web browsers and internet. I am going to go right down to the depths of the rabbit hole of conspiracy.

Now it really does not matter if you believe in conspiracy theories or not. They are fun to explore. Do not get too passionate about them. You are not going to change something that happened 100 years ago. Well not over night anyway. So stay calm think and plan.

Set the Fruit loop Loose.

Napoleon Genghis Back before those. Romans Egyptians the times of Jesus. Going back before then. A time you may have forgotten. They was corruption backstabbing and greed then too. It was in what they said was civilized.

The majority of people were powerless. Their rulers overlords or other cared not for them but for if they could yield. Within a village, people worked together, helped each other in time of need. They bonded.

That was life.

The warlords fought neighbouring lands for more resources and wealth. A truce and peace would come when sides were evenly matched. Eventually one side would find an storage of wealth and then use it to conquer the poorer less equipped army. This extra finance came from a source that wanted interest on the loan. Interest in the form of land rights and ownership in the new lands. Along side the finance.

These new lands would be plundered by the finance investor of all available resources and then abandoned. Crippling the future of the area and sometimes surrounding areas futures.

In the roman times there was the same thing. Just on a much bigger scale. Instead of a group of villages under control. Many cities came under a central control. They even had democracy. And they had corruption.

There is a pattern starting to form. It that conspiracy? Or just the stronger taking over?

Regardless the hands of power changed and changed over and over again. What did not change is how those rulers got financed.
It was not long before the financer could finance both sides of a war. At this time when one side requested finance. The answer they got was. If I loan you that money and you win. I will lose more money that he owes.
The aggressor would agree to cover the enemy debt on winning. This would be put to both sides. Should one disagree they would lose.

That story follows through for just about every war ever since.

Until recently Kings ruled. While the Kings of Europe ruled. The wealth of in the nation was stored in private hands. Those who did not pay to feed the army. The King would be strong and have wealth. To go to war. He would need the finance from private citizens.

Until more recent. The American war of independence. Up until then, Kings kept the financier in control. By decree of the King, they could lose everything. Once the distance expanded to over sea's and a King not having the ability to control a war at such distance. The privateers of finance stepped in and won their independence.

All of the founding members from well to do families. All with similar backgrounds of education. Set the rules for the new land found. These same financers brought about the Fed. 5 Million dollars to be printed. The government would keep one and loan the rest to 1 million each. Loans that never got repaid.

A lot of blah blah since. That brings us to today.

Today we have a better civilized world? The standards we live in have improved. Has the ambition to have us reliant grown or weakened? What do you see when you look out there today?

If you see crypto now as a way out. You are seeing what you want to see. What changes to society has any of the Crypto brought? What is it they changed?

My understanding is not really anything. The development of Hive is stagnant to code.

In thousands of years the Rulers of the lands have changed to where we have governments. Over that time purse strings have gotten so thick, it makes things impossible for small business.

They said BTC would remove the financial control. It has not happened yet, so someone please tell me how.

Has anyone actually put any real thought in to how a to have a token online rival the already established finance system?

There has always been a shadow. Just not from the same shape or light source.

At one point we had big Empires and we were led by Emperors. Then Kingdoms came and we were led by Kings.
Now we have Countries. Whose running things?