You are completely right with the comparison to Santa Claus, although the humor here is a very dark one:
"All mainstream political discussion – all debate about what should be “legal” and “illegal,” who should be put into power, what “national policy” should be, how “government” should handle various issues – all of it is utterly irrational and a complete waste of time, as it is all based upon the false premise that one person can have the right to rule another, that “authority” can even exist. The entire debate about how “authority” should be used, and what “government” should do, is exactly as useful as debating how Santa Claus should handle Christmas. But it is infinitely more dangerous. On the bright side, removing that danger – the biggest threat that humanity has ever faced, in fact – does not require changing the fundamental nature of man, or converting all hatred to love, or performing any other drastic alteration to the state of the universe. Instead, it requires only that people recognize and then let go of one particular superstition, one irrational lie that almost everyone has been taught to believe. In one sense, most of the world’s problems could be solved overnight if everyone did something akin to giving up the belief in Santa Claus."

This is from Larken Rose's The Most Dangerous Supersition.
He's had issue wih the book being censored on Amazon, or not getting earnings for it, so if you want to support him and get the book, I suggest you talk with him on Facebook to find a means that both you and he would enjoy -- if you can pay him via facebook messenger or paypal or bitcoin, that's ideal. Or his patreon, which is directly about supporting The Mirror. Likewise, you could simply follow him on here.

The issue is to do with the hallucination of each of us being a separate beings, needing to be watched over and controlled. Bitcoin was designed with limits in place, and not all forms of Bitcoin are impervious to this. What's the value in this? The inability to make more currency at the tap of a button means the other spot besides taxation cannot be exploited: creating new currency out of thin air that dillutes the value of the currently-existing currency.

The dollar has already lost 93% of it's value.

This is the reason that Mike Malooney has made an entire series about Gold. There are a lot of advantages to gold. And there are a lot of advantages to Bitcoin. They both have positives and negatives.

The trait they share, for the most part, is inbuilt scarcity.
You cannot print more gold, or more Bitcoin (after programmed limit).
That is not the case with all forms of Bitcoin.
Some are going to be programmed for inflation, and they will not keep their value; it will leak like the dollar is.

What is going on is a combination of psychology, and the dollar being made more and more apparently worthless. Bitcoin is not rising. The dollar is falling. Right now there's merely a bigger psychological bump, which is why gold isn't rising too, if it isn't.

I had 1 or 2 bitcoin in 2010. I lost them.

What I'm focused on is not the value that I lost, but how that value can always be recreated, not with storing it, but with pointing to the source of the whole thing: You. Us. Me. That's the central point of the book that I've been reading, Biocentrism.

Just about all of us have a car, and have a phone, each of which are expensive and mean long-term economics. We can empower each other exponentially by our shared decicions, and profit together, and make our interactions more of a voluntary basis, and support each other.

We are, in fact, doing that here, right now, by interacting in this way on steemit. It may not be the final road, but we're certainly progressing to that point together.

My dream is that of an open-source phone with 3D-printer that you can use to design both the software and hardware, and so you have something in your hands that's totally in your control, that you can use to sustainabiy make profit and collaborate with and empower yourself and others.

If you want to support me in this, you can

1. Follow me here on steemit and continue interacting with me - that makes both of us money on there.
2. Support me with any amount of money on gofundme, patreon, or minds.com (especially), for access to special content that I'm experimenting with).

I have to leave, so hopefully my comment isn't too rushed.