totally agree. the future most probably will be authoritarian, you dont have to make an effort to come to that conclusion. cbdc’s, carbon credits, digital IDs, IMF unicoin, WHO having a centralized and absolute power to dictate “health” policies… as I’ve been saying here: bitcoin/nostr will be resistance, not situation, not status quo. either we isolate ourselves in remote and independent communities or submit to the yoke of smart cities — and have out precious bitcoins confiscated.
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I'm glad you brought up "IMF unicoin", because I actually think of the dollar were to collapse in short order, the likelihood that most of the world would immediately switch to the IMF SDR as the emergency backup reserve currency is about 95% likely.
bar none. it’s written. it is what always happens, it’ll be what it’ll end up happening. they wouldnt be issuing it otherwise.
I think over the next few decades, Bitcoin will rise in importance. It will be a very important reserve currency, I think. But those people thinking this future is in our immediate future, are living in a bubble.
I wish I were that optimistic. it could get there, sure, but imo not before confiscation.
It's not about optimism or cynicism. It's just about remembering that progress is not guaranteed. It's a struggle. You have to work for it.
a struggle in which the upper hand usually wins, from gunpowder to surveillance
We have seen power get pushed back by popular movements and through moral progress. It can happen again. But the people who are just sitting back and waiting for the whole thing to fall down are being useful idiots to the totalitarians-in-waiting.
we have too much circus nowadays, everywhere. what ends up making up for the lack of bread.
I feel like people are tiring of the circus and there's increasingly an opening for more moderate, non-insane people.
true people, working class, yeah. middle class? useful idiots wearing che t-shirts bought at amazon.
Actually think it's most people, at this point.
I kinda guide myself by elections on one hand. usa: 50/50. brazil: 50/50. brexit: 50/50. france, italy: 50/50. irony plays an important role. when you have no argument, irony is the answer. but this hipster generation raised it to maximum power. tô the point where they ended up needing a cause to call their own. though an empty cause, a che t-shirt, only to make them feel better, as if they were actually doing any good for the planet or society. circus. distraction. meanwhile, bread is more and more scarce. but they don’t care, they don’t even have to bake their own bread and wouldn’t know how to do it, anyways.
I’m a moederate.