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Secessio Plebis: Galt’s Gulch before it was cool, and proof that the original Roman Plebs would be Bitcoin Maxis
History repeats itself, but the lessons remain the same.
The common people have always held the power to resist their rulers, not through protest, but through strategic withdrawal.
The secessio plebis of ancient Rome proved this long before Atlas Shrugged was written.
When the plebs walked away, the system faltered, because the so-called commoners weren’t common at all.
They were the backbone of society; more productive than the elites who ruled them.
And without their participation, everything collapsed.
Bitcoin is the modern, digital secessio plebis: a peaceful exit from a corrupt, inflationary system.
If appealing for reform worked, it would have worked by now.
But it hasn’t…and it won’t.
Because the game is rigged in favor of those who print the money, write the rules, and move the goalposts.
You can’t fix a system designed to control you.
You don’t fight it…You abandon it.
That’s what Bitcoin represents: an exit.
Both its supporters and its suppressors call it that: one with hope, the other with fear.
And the intensity of their emotions only confirms the truth: the system can’t survive without its plebs, and the plebs are leaving.
History repeats itself, but the lessons remain the same.
The common people have always held the power to resist their rulers, not through protest, but through strategic withdrawal.
The secessio plebis of ancient Rome proved this long before Atlas Shrugged was written.
When the plebs walked away, the system faltered, because the so-called commoners weren’t common at all.
They were the backbone of society; more productive than the elites who ruled them.
And without their participation, everything collapsed.
Bitcoin is the modern, digital secessio plebis: a peaceful exit from a corrupt, inflationary system.
If appealing for reform worked, it would have worked by now.
But it hasn’t…and it won’t.
Because the game is rigged in favor of those who print the money, write the rules, and move the goalposts.
You can’t fix a system designed to control you.
You don’t fight it…You abandon it.
That’s what Bitcoin represents: an exit.
Both its supporters and its suppressors call it that: one with hope, the other with fear.
And the intensity of their emotions only confirms the truth: the system can’t survive without its plebs, and the plebs are leaving.