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Interesting to understand how the times transform villains into heroes and heroes into villains. In all areas, in all forms, for all people and concepts: either history abolishes, or history condemns. What makes this judgment, however, is the weight of the pen in the hand of the writer.Born in Florence on May 3, 1469, Nicolas Machiavelli has his teaching largely influenced by the Renaissance, at an early age. Philosopher, historian, diplomat, musician, poet and rhetorician, his works give a broad view of the first pre-Protestant period in Europe.He is also the founder of modern political science, which opens the door for, two centuries later, his concepts to be incorporated into the fundamental pillars of the economy, showing the political aspects of governments and their inherent interferences.Alongside Voltaire - and his book The Spirit of Laws -, Machiavelli stood out with the controversial book "The Prince". These two books, always current, because they analyze political situations that always, cyclically, appear and hardly fall short in the recommendations they make.The anthropocentric concepts, rescues of Livio Tito, and other classics of antiquity aim to tear the obscurantist veil imposed in the low middle age.Having also held a position in the Florentina Chancellery, under Medici's protection, he was able to observe the political-social dynamics of a government that was originally republican - in the sense of governance - and bureaucratically controllable.In this atmosphere and after he leaves the cave, the book "The Prince" is born.Part of this book is one of the most famous phrases of modern politics and base justifications: "The end justifies the means!"The term "Machiavellian", alias, coined by the Catholic Church which sees in the book a frontal attack on its values ??of the time and reinforced, in the 17th century, by English culture due to the allusion to restored monarchic values ??(remember that England lived a Protestant parliamentary period, before the restoration of the monarchy!), has always been more focused on the wrong way of doing things or, in general, on someone who uses unclear expedients to achieve goals.The decline of papal power from the 14th century onwards, with the strengthening of national states: the embryo of modern European countries, of an inquisition, established a century earlier and intensified until the 15th century, and the divergence between the secular and the divine within the churches themselves.Just as Luther challenges, ecclesiastically, papal power. Others do it in a philosophical way, like Machiavelli.Machiavelli's demonization is explained in his book, after observing numerous diplomatic negotiations in France between the papal state and Florence and the way in which everything always converges in two ways: what is seen and what is not seen, he describes with richness of details the machinery of power in the figure of the prince. There, the carapuca has been serving various rulers, secular and divine, several parliamentarians and public servants.Using Tito Livio's concept of Virtue and Fortuna, Machiavelli frees the reader from the moral and religious concepts that surrounded life: he coins the expression: "the effective truth of things", so that those who ruled could see what was actually happening in the light of analysis of facts.Virtue was the prince's ability to have control over the occasions and events of his rule, of his principality. Through this, the peace and security of the territory could be maintained. It was opposed and placed in a higher way than Christian morality, for being analytical and amoral, in general. The prince would have to be above moral issues to properly analyze situations.Fortune concerns the circumstances, the present time and situations which, at the moment of decision, lead to success or failure, but in fact are not controllable by the prince. They happen, they go ahead, it's up to the prince to know how to take advantage of the moment or not.According to Haidikin: "The subject possessing the Virtu is the one who succeeds in obtaining and maintaining power. The founders of the principality, subjects with such characteristic, are excellent men - willing to act as courageously as possible towards founding a government According to Machiavelli, the maintenance and attainment of power becomes variable, therefore, depending on whether the Virtu of those who conquered it is greater or lesser. introduce the form that pleased them, and those who by Virtu conquer power tend more easily to keep it".It is the virtue that maintains the principality, but over time it is neither Virtue nor Fortna responsible for its downfall: the indolence and human laziness that disregard strategies, which lead to defeat, usually due to the loss of opportunity (fortune ) and the analysis of the truth, the facts (virtue).For Machiavelli, it is the level of Virtue that shields the prince from the moral and theocentric Christian vision and the arrogance of fame that men attribute to him. Arrogance, arrogance and non-skeptical values ??darken eyesight and judgment, lifting the ruin of the principality.Virtu is the prince's ability to be flexible to circumstances, shifting with them to seize and dominate Fortune.Therefore, Virtue, fortune and adaptability to situations and different behavior for each issue, make the prince strong. Every opposition to these principles makes the prince weak.Ethics, for Machiavelli, does not have the same medieval Christian connotation: the purpose of the actions of rulers becomes the maintenance of the homeland and the general good of the community, not the community itself, so that an attitude cannot be called good or bad except from a historical perspective.It is at this point that Machiavelli is attributed with a phrase from Ovid, in his work Heroides: "The ends justify the means". In the book nos and finds such a phrase, coined to denigrate the work as a whole.In fact, the prince, the ruler, the parliamentarian, the public servant, must act according to ethics whenever possible, based on the concept of reason of State, necessary for the maintenance of power. The rule, therefore, is the conquest and maintenance of power for the good of the state.The second part of this interpretation concerns the people: the description of the people, vis-a-vis rulers, for Machiavelli, is contemporary: the people do not care how they were pleased, having what they want, they ignore the means by which it was done.Reflection: and isn't that how the people behave?The problem is that ethical behavior is always above good and bad, but it is always aligned with doing what is right.In general, Machiavelli's vision, within the logic of Virtue, Fortune and adaptability of situations, can be objectively placed in the analysis of business with cryptocurrencies.In general, dealing with money often means not wanting to know the cash flow, especially in the financial market.The focus is on the moment of buying and selling assets and what gains will be made in this process.Fortune, in this case, is the moment that presents itself to enter or exit a position, to obtain the best gains.Virtue is the operator's ability to analyze, from data and knowledge, from its own assets, from the perception of the risk of taking the position, if such action would put the principality at risk.Unlike an asset, such as shares, from the traditional financial market, which has a company behind it, for example, and the fate of that action is closely linked to decisions that do not belong to the owner of the shares, but to the productive and strategic aspect of the company ( even if a shareholder owns 99% of a company's shares, he will not control how the company will produce, for example, and how the product will be accepted!), cryptocurrencies depend on the individual's own risk taken when buying or selling the currency, simple thus!The simplicity also lies in the fact that the trader will have to be on the lookout for opportunities - unlike stocks that generate dividends - to generate his earnings. In this case, leaving the cryptocurrency idle could result in losses, see the recent example of bitcoin.Of course this, in herd effect, affects turnover and can turn a bull into a bear, or, if fortune smiles, turn a bear into a bull! Hera decides!For the cryptooperator, having Virtue and Fortuna are vital to ensure success in the world of cyptocurrencies!Be Machiavelli, in the good sense of the word!
