In my life I have seen a lot of speculators. These are the people who ride the wave but never take part in creating the wave. I am here to tell you your days are numbered. Here's why.
Speculators rely upon a scarcity culture, a dog-eat-dog world where everyone is out to get their own. A renaissance is coming that will create a model where people are enticed and inspired to add more value. This will happen when value is properly conserved in the hands that created it. Meaning, you can ride the wave if you take part in creating it. This is called conservation.
If you did not take part in creating the wave, and if you are not a part of our community, then we tax you more. It's that simple.
Speculation is all about riding the energy that others create, either for selfish reasons or statist control. We have both in our society today.
A better model is a modular community that inhibits top-down control and redistributes consent to its source, its headwater origin. We also call this a fountainhead. A fountainhead is the origin of voice, the first place where consent is given, from the individual into a small group. And from that group to another small group. Speculators do not function in this kind of social structure, there is no way to gain advantage. It requires too much discussion and too much wide and horizontal consent. There is no bottleneck to manipulate.
Do not fret too much with the established controls we now have over us and the centralization of power. A renaissance is coming. Those adding to life will organize and finally stand against the speculators who take from life.
Thus Saith The Genuine Optimist