Collectivism vs Individualism, The Issue Behind All Issues - by G. Edward Griffin

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G. Edward Griffin is the author of the famous book “The Creature From Jekyll Island”.
It’s a history about central bank control and corruption going all the back to the the 1500’s all the way up to the Banking Collapse in 2008. Because history rhymes, the book is completely relevant today.

When you consider that Satoshi created Bitcoin as a response to the 2008 banking collapse we might consider that one of the greatest responsibilities of Cardano governance is to protect the Cardano community from central bank influence, corruption, and eventual collapse.

G. Edward Griffin is now in his 90’s and has had a lifetime to study central bank corruption on humanity. He has condensed his understanding of what this corruption actually is and how humans can protect themselves from it into a single principle: Individualism over Collectivism. This principle is what underlies Cardano’s core principle of Decentralization over Centralization. It’s the most basic idea on which decentralization stands. It’s why it matters. Decentralization is what enforces Individualism. Decentralization is the “how”. Individualism is the “why”.

For these reasons, I think the ideas in Griffin’s work should be included in the Cardano constitution.

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To begin with, thank you for bringing this important academic discussion to the forefront @johnshearing

G. Edward Griffin’s The Creature from Jekyll Island fills a significant gap in the literature. I had the opportunity to review it in detail some time ago.

The traditional financial system, built on the unquestioned control of central banks over the money supply, has allowed financial markets to be shaped by dominant ideological forces.

As bureaucracies have become increasingly corrupt and political parties have strayed from their founding principles to represent specific interest groups, the unchecked power of central banks has hindered the spread of prosperity to broader society and contributed to the persistence of global economic crises.

Consequently, the very institutions meant to support financial markets have become major obstacles to development, innovation, and technological progress.

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