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An upgraded "high" compared to old school opium, in that the flavour of the dream/euphoria can now be effectively directed and melded by the central scrutinisers.
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Absolutely, you can mix and match your preffered method of dopamine, little bit of hyper palatable food substitutes, a little onlyfans here and there, some outlet for your anger online and slowly but surely you add more things or increase the dosages, the self medicated opium den is a prison of your own design
For me, I fell into the Linkedin, hustle grind, career, work my ass off crack, while I still suffer from it to an extent, with Bitcoin at least I have a measuring stick and a goal I can focus on instead of just trying to keep pace with fiat devaluation
I'm interested in that part about the corn being somewhat of a valve to relieve some pressure on the urgency of the grind. But.......my day to day living is all old school bank a/c and cash so my corn remains, I don't know, kind of ethereal/psychological. Sure I can appreciate the value protecting me from the inflation but it's a hodl and unless I can really put the corn to work it seems possible, and I ponder that part, that there's this "old miser counting $ in his a/c" who just watches it and never upgrades life quality and when the reaper comes it's a regret. Maybe each individual's age will change that dynamic but I'm Gen X so it's something I think about. Meanwhile, the grind grinds on!
Same here, work and live in fiat, and I keep a buffer of fiat for expenses, while my corn is my savings, retirement, emergency fund, medical fund and I hope I don't need to tap into it anytime soon, but glad that I have the option
I don't see the point of relying on my fiat pension stuff, that's all going to zero before I reach retirement age, so I consider it 0 already. So the corn kinda puts me at ease mentally, because I worried about it a lot
I don't mind the grind, I am happy to work, I enjoy it, I just want to know that its all for something in the end, when I look at my peers consuming today getting the nice car, the glam vacay I don't feel bad anymore, I want to have more options than 2 weeks off and working until im 65 or longer
I guess the tapping into the capital is the hard part now because the opportunity cost is so high, you forgo those future gains and pay today's taxes on it.
I don't keep any fiat at all. Not even for the daily expense. Anytime I earn any fiat, I convert it into bitcoin at once not even looking at the charts.
When I am spending, if BTC is up from my last purchase - I spend that. If it is down - I spend the BTC that I bought at 20k. That one is still up 😁.
I have no on/off ramp. An issue I hope won't matter when BTC is more widely accepted.
In El Salvador no need to offramp, in Europe there are crypto.com and safepal Visa cards (check if they supply your tx data to your tax authorities), in Lithuania you can buy/sell for cash at skelbiu.lt . The rest of the world - don't know.