Elon Musk and Bitcoin show the 'new normal'
THANKS to the "pandemic", beyond a short-legged totalitarianism that currently flows globally, the questioning of politicians, "governments", states, and all kinds of institutions is steadily growing.
And, if a “new normal” looms, contrary to what fans of the "pandemic" believe, it will be where people are increasingly aware – and independent – that they, and not a decadent and unreliable "Authority", are the doers and caretakers of your future.
It is not by doing politics that the world will be changed, which would be an irony; on the contrary, this would imply playing the game of the establishment that has strongly tied its interests, and it is practically impossible to enter politics and not fall into their networks.
Undoubtedly Elon Musk is today one of the most influential men in the world, if not the most influential, and Bitcoin is the topic of the moment competing with the news about Covid-19.
And if something characterises him, it is his total detachment from "the authorities" and his evident disinterest in politicians.
Like when Elon defied the quarantine imposed by the bureaucrats and won the fight and, above all, with his space race that, in the end, aims to create "private" human colonies. His goal, he said, is to contribute to the creation of a multi-planetary civilisation. To do this, and beginning in 2026, he intends to send, by 2050, 1 million humans to Mars in 1 000 SpaceX spacecraft.
Another major player in this "new normal" is Bitcoin. And there is already talk of the possibility of reducing adherents to gold, traditionally considered an active refuge.
Undoubtedly, gold has a great advantage, and that is that even if investors ceased to have an interest in it as a currency or safeguard of value, it would still have industrial and jewellery value.
Bitcoin on the other hand, say its detractors, would have no value. However, it has a huge advantage, especially today when states abuse their interference in people's lives, and that is, that it is impossible to control and track.
And governments, seeing their future threatened, try to control it but, given the evidence that they will not be able to do so, the idea of establishing their "own digital currency" has occurred to them.
Thus, large central banks are studying the possibility of issuing digital cash and defending themselves against threats from the private sector to traditional money. ALEJANDRO A TAGLIAVINI | Senior Advisor at The Cedar Portfolio and Member of the Advisory Council of the Center on Global Prosperity, Oakland, California