Crypto-Currency- Good Prospects for Surviving W.W. Three?

 I learned a bit about crypto currency. Not sure what Milton Freedman would have thought about it. One of the down sides is that with large emp blasts or a future global conflict it might not survive. It really is a floating currency and secured electronically. Quantum computers may change the security of crypto as well.

 I don't do stocks or even monetary policy things since my interests are more along the lines of 'invest in heaven where flame and moth don't corrupt' lol. There was a philosopher- one of the Diogenes, who was a cynic and eschewed possessions. Laying on the ground in the sunshine the story goes that Alexander the Great walked up to him and said; 'I will give you whatever you like, teach me your wisdom. Diogenes looking up at Alexander reportedly said-'Move aside, you are blocking the sun'. I am not a cynic, yet the moderate approach to possessions and value theory (the philosophical field of axiology) is something I do have an interest in.

With 40 trillion dollars of public debt some feel the economy will crash in a year or 10 and the U.S. government will go bankrupt. The rich and many others will have invested in crypto and feel independent of the dollar's devalue- and making it difficult to recover from the probable depression with no capital available for pump priming the economy.

Social Security is supposed to run out of solvency in five years requiring cuts. If only those in the upper 50% were cut that might not be painful too them exceed for their pride in prosperity being slapped. If they cut the bottom 50% by as much as 25% that is likely to cause real pain for those relying upon it as their sole source of income. Americans being the way they are these days are unlikely to tolerate just the prosperous being downgraded 25% and will insist the poor suffer too- since the prosperous tend to feel it is their money, rather than social income insurance to keep Americans out of dire poverty.

I believe that with the mention in the bible of God not favoring those people that trim the poor, the prospects for national recovery may be even worse than is necessary after decades of irrational exuberance in regard to tax cuts for the prosperous.

On the Proposition that Nothing's Inherently Valuable and Delusion is Behind Values

 Nothing is inherently valuable therefor values are delusional? Consider this for a minute.

Proposition: Nothing is (inherently) valuable; inference 1- values are delusional.- Points of fact-Values are variables and have utility meaning or worth. Some value assignments are in error while some are correct. For example; if walking across the Mohave Desert in August a bottle of ice-water would slake thirst and is valued for reducing thirst; consideration... Thirst occurs in walking or riding a bike in the Mohave desert in August. Water slakes (reduces thirst). If a bottle of ice water is valued as a thirst quencher, and it does quench thirst, the proposition value paradigm is correct rather than delusional.

Values are like words and word strings that are used by a sentient being to communicate. Values are also generally a subjective form of communication for-oneself assigning values or utility or worth to various objects, service, events etc. Such things are not inherently valuable only in the sense that words do not cohere in objects in a sentient way. Even so, while anti-matter is quite uncommon and difficult to produce, it's value or utility lies in scarcity and difficulty to obtain for those that want some. The desire to have an object in relation to its intrinsic scarcity create a value in the minds of those that want it. Value is an estimation of what is required to obtain, affect, change or control part of the real world directly identified.

Morality and Value Systems

Axiology has a plethora of products. Yet if morality describes what people actually do regarding behavioral norms, wicked behavior counts as much as ideal systems designed by philosophers. The first civilization mentioned in Genesis was destroyed for the wicked ways of the people. Humans had pretty bad morals 10 or 20 thousand years ago. A non-battle site at a village excavated in the Middle East found that about 80% of the people had died from crushed skulls. Police weren't about for a few thousand years.

God is a light in the darkness for humanity. The God of Abraham and His Son Jesus Christ have reached a billion people with the word and some element of faith at least nominally, yet it would be an over reach to say that human morality is primarily based on divine inspiration. It may be so that the world’s major religions have shaped at least nominally the majority of the systems of 8 billion living people. I don’t believe there is any sort of pro forma adherence to the morality of major religious systems that govern day to day life of a majority though, as if they were strict Jews in the Temple era before God with the Lord brought a new covenant as promised.

The sort of morality people of the west have today probably has a fiscal basis reflecting permissible behavior in regard to a political economy rather than Christian ethics or perhaps those of some other religious system.

Secular humanism’s practical focus isn’t much different from the humanism that even Christians have accepted. I attended one theology school where there seemed to be agreement that asceticism isn’t popular today. I suppose most commercial Christians sleep on mattresses and take baths instead of sleeping on the ground and get a shower every few months. They probably use worldly medical care generally. It didn’t seem like Jesus would eschew common goods; it’s just the value one fixes them with that matter. If one focuses on God and His will the Lord said He would provide. He mentioned that a human is worth many sparrows, and sparrows are provided for. https://www.udio.com/songs/wKdkBuPCwuTayHZ8RWiBtp