Foot-and-mouth disease and financial freedom in an era of state hostility and failure
Join Martin van Staden, Zakhele Mthembu and Ayanda Zulu as they dive into some of the most pressing issues of the week.
Join Martin van Staden, Zakhele Mthembu and Ayanda Zulu as they dive into some of the most pressing issues of the week.
In this episode, we discuss Agriculture Minister John Steenhuisen’s handling of the foot and mouth outbreak, the state’s push to control farmers, and what it reveals about government power. We also look at how to state proof your money, and why Bitcoin matters when policy failures pile up.
Read ‘State-Proof Money: The Case For Bitcoin Adoption In South Africa’ by the FMF’s David Ansara: https://freemarketfoundation.com/state-proof-money-the-case-for-bitcoin-adoption-in-south-africa-paper/
The framing of state overreach through agricultral disease response is clever. When governments use emergencies to expand control mechanisms it sets precedents that outlive the crisis. The Bitcoin angle connects well bc centralized monetary policy is just another vector of the same control impulse playing out across sectors