{"id":11318,"date":"2022-02-10T21:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ci029980949000278e"},"modified":"2025-10-01T13:15:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T18:15:30","slug":"why-american-farmers-need-bitcoin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitcoinmagazine.com\/culture\/why-american-farmers-need-bitcoin","title":{"rendered":"We Need Our Farmers, Our Farmers Need Bitcoin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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With special contributions by: <\/em>Texas Slim<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Clemenza<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>Mark Maraia<\/em><\/a> and <\/em>Colin Crossman<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks to Bitcoin Magazine<\/em> giving my voice an outlet, throughout 2021, I have brought to your attention issues that I believe are plaguing the general health and well-being of the public. These include by way of diet and decision-making<\/a> and how those effects are bleeding<\/a> into the healthcare (doctors and nurses, but also health insurance) sectors, as well as education<\/a> and the economy<\/a> itself. Unfortunately, the problems don\u2019t stop there \u2014 we need to follow in the footsteps of Alice and venture further down the rabbit hole. <\/p>\n

The walls of this particular rabbit hole are structured with accountability and responsibility (check out my conversation with BTC Sessions<\/a> where we briefly discuss this topic here<\/a>).<\/p>\n

America has been pushed from the pinnacle of learning, opportunity, and modern achievement into a corner of general deception<\/a> and decay. One ought to ask: How did we get here? Well, let us consider the benefits \u2014 and consequences \u2014 of generations developing and proliferating across a period of history subsequent to America establishing a new world order with the IMF and World Bank via the Bretton Woods Agreement<\/a>. The ease of life that followed in peacetime started at the peak of the power dynamic \u2014 politicians and bankers \u2014 thanks to global reserve status, and over the decades, has bled down through the socioeconomic hierarchies, across corporations, brick-and-mortar businesses, and eventually down to the average citizen \u2014 until the 1970s<\/a>. <\/p>\n

This easy lifestyle, enjoying the benefits of living from a position of leverage and power (thanks to the credit-based economy exacerbated by Nixon), has allowed complacency to flourish to extremely dangerous levels. Which, if we\u2019re being completely honest, is easy to understand \u2014 just not easy to accept, nor identify when the consequences of such activity is not being felt to a significant extent that merits (or requires) reflection and rethinking. <\/p>\n

Until now. <\/p>\n

Ultimately, America\u2019s political and economic woes can be seen quite easily by looking at the general public health crisis. We have been receiving the signals<\/a> for decades, yet we continue to overlook and even ignore these warnings and notifications. By ignoring these omens, we risk following the very same path as great empires of history. If we do not act to re-route America\u2019s health crisis, which encompasses both mental and physical health, then I fear that America\u2019s time in the sun will end up resembling that of Icarus<\/a>. These signals are most easily identifiable within our health industries, which include \u2014 but are not limited to \u2014 hospitals and medical practices, insurance and hospitality, fitness, food producers, diet and nutrition practices.<\/p>\n

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“The proper role of government, however, is that of partner with the farmer \u2014 never his master. By every possible means we must develop and promote that partnership \u2014 to the end that agriculture may continue to be a sound, enduring foundation for our economy and that farm living may be a profitable and satisfying experience.” \u2014 President Dwight D. Eisenhower, special message to the Congress on Agriculture, September 1, 1956<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Civilizations And Health<\/h2>\n

David Montgomery is not a household name, but I believe that will change over the coming years and decades. As America continues down a path of economic hardship, thanks to the unraveling of our Keynesian economic system due to such liberal monetary policy<\/a> and protectionist<\/a> measures of propping up nonproductive<\/a> corporate ventures \u2026 trouble is brewing just outside of our sight picture<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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As I\u2019ve burrowed further and further down the Bitcoin rabbit hole over the past years, I\u2019ve learned so much that I may have actually developed an addiction. What started with investing strategies and economics has led to further investigations in my own particular field, health, the money behind much of the \u201chealth sector,\u201d and recently to where our health comes from. That would be nutrition, yes, but following first principles thinking (FPT), we come to the real genesis \u2014 farming and its bedfellows, ranching and animal husbandry.<\/p>\n

Of particular note to me would be the relationship of agriculture and the health of a civilization, especially in the death throes of empires across the ages. Montgomery covers this briefly in his publication, \u201cGrowing a Revolution<\/a>.\u201d Montgomery goes on to describe this revolution within farming against modern agricultural practices (much like there\u2019s a rebellion occurring within economic circles, doubting Keynesian efficacy and seeking out different\/better solutions, like bitcoin). You see, one problem that Montgomery uncovered along his journey was a relationship that I had not heard expounded upon before.<\/p>\n

While the inflation angle is talked about religiously, pointing to the \u201cwhy\u201d a particular empire imploded upon itself, the food is rarely talked about as the final straw. I\u2019m talking about the <\/em>straw, you know \u2026 the one that \u201cbroke the camel\u2019s back?\u201d <\/p>\n

A societal collapse of historical importance can ultimately be boiled down to one very simple (but priceless) variable that any community requires: the provision of consistent food production<\/a>. Whether we\u2019re talking about the first communities that had begun cultivating crops some 12,000 years ago, or we\u2019re discussing active revolution from under a ruling power, the driver(s) of revolt end up disrupting the food supply. Rome<\/a> and Paris<\/a> both had this pressure point in common: bread shortages sparked public outrage. But what ultimately led to these shortages? Was it greed by the farmers? Could they have been extorting prices of crops due to a monetary landscape that was producing hardship? Or was it, perhaps, gluttony by the citizenry? Driven by an insatiable hunger of an entitled populace that grew up during an age of plenty and relative comfort.<\/p>\n