I - Not able to create value, destined to be a tool in the hands of people in (IV)
II - Able to create value, ability to live independently/collectivistically in a voluntaristic world
III - Able to create value to the extent that money is never the bottleneck as you can always exchange value for money as needed
IV - Able to create money
IVA - Able to threaten, coerce and bribe, (drone-DU-bomb, etc.) all the world to submit to you
IVB - Able to just let others follow you, and able to enable the leadership position as well for anyone who wishes to pick it up.
Creating as much money as needed is a lie to yourself. Money can't buy knowledge creation:
It is the knowledge creation which is needed and valuable. Money is a claim on resources, but not a claim on knowledge creation (because it can't be, read my essay linked above).
Knowledge is not money, because money is fungible whereas knowledge is not.
Knowledge creation capability does determine where you fit in my scale above, and I have bolded it for you, AnonyMint. No matter how well off you may be with your knowledge creation skills, if you lack the prerequisites to monetize them (the skills, or the knowledge, or contacts, or any subset), you are still in the early stages of my ladder. Also the environment matters greatly.
When all the things that change the world and impact evolution have shifted to knowledge creation, which money can't buy, then influence over and actual knowledge creation are more valued than money. You can go buy all the useless castles you want, while I change the world. Then we will compare accomplishments.
Also pray tell Satoshi that I can't monetize my Bitcoin killer. He certainly did. But money isn't the goal and he presumably knew that also.
My goal is to move us to the next stage where knowledge creation is important and money (hard resources) less so. Atoms are heavy, but finitely so. Knowledge creation is unbounded. Compare.
In short, your ladder is not a metric of greatest importance. It the illusion that is going to trap the capitalists as we move towards the return of Jesus where resources don't matter any more. Jesus is coming technologically even if not literally.
That is why I suggested you should use your money for good while it still has any relevance. Yeah I am in a rough spot right now financially, but Jesus told me to walk with nothing and stay focused on what is important. (that doesn't mean I am a saint!)
The ones in IVB, have the burden on changing the environment (by replacing the existing world system with a better one) to enable us to move on to the next stage as humanity. When that happens, then your dreaming will become true, but it seems others have to make the transition as you are unwilling to raise your level (which I have done, after we did business together in 2008).
Raising your level in the wrong direction has made you much less likely to have any important impact. You are moving farther away from any sensible decentralized lurch towards the knowledge age with your socialist monetary scheme which is competing directing with the TPTB because it is a power vacuum direction.
Whereas, I am creating technological advances which decentralize and eliminate the power vacuum. And also provides a basic level income for a basic level of work. Which is the way it should be, not some socialistic scheme.
It can never be a truth that money which is created by following leaders is an honest/truthful or nonviolent money system, because it will always be a power vacuum.
Is any of the readers buying this? I think the exact opposite is true.
The only non power vacuum will come from technology that renders concentrated control over wealth impotent over anything other than resource capitalism.
Bitcoin failed because it burns a physical resource.
The positive scaling law of Linus' law is the solution. It is the only positive scaling law of software (technology) engineering. And it also applies to truth in a way that I am going to be the first to bring to a money system.
Please continue thinking of me as lower on your ladder. I am confident that is what they thought of Jesus too as he humbly hung out with the bankers and prostitutes because he said that is where the ripe fruit was for saving souls.
Edit: Adam Smith pointed out that those trying to promote the public interest often do worse than those who work for their own optimum economics, due to the invisible hand (or otherwise stated, "you can't do just one thing" ... see how conversationalists destroyed the rivers by trying to save the wildlife from predator wolves). Your goody-goody socialistic coin is in the same genre of myopia:
https://www.khanacademy.org/economics-finance-domain/macroeconomics/gdp-topic/econ-intro-in-macro-tutorial/v/introduction-to-economics
