if microstrategy becomes one of the top 100 most valuable companies in the world by just playing financial games i’ll kill myself nostr:note1phsh2sp592zxan3mklxg8hw6076zhkcgaks78l7mww4pqsp430fss0v694
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A lot of the most valuable companies today exist like that. Fiat things.
not really
Take apple for example. They ran out of ideas for hardware to make so they started doing banking and subscription services. Not as extreme as MicroStrategy but on the financial side of all these companies there are decisions made which affect their value more than a product ever could.
worst company/example you could’ve picked. obviously the vast majority of their profit and growth has come from hardware- even then, these other services create value for people.
microstrategy does nothing of value compared to their valuation.
a better example would be berkshire or a bank, but at-least they invest in the global economy
I think it's the best company to steel-man my point. I personally don't think the app store fee and on device purchases cut adds value to me, but you're right that Apple has legitimate hardware products. It says a lot that even a company as successful as apple ends up playing financial games on their balance sheet and introducing financialized products. That's how you keep winning in a fiat world.
Apply the logic you have for MicroStrategy to individual Bitcoiners. Are you deserving of your valuation? Am I? In many ways Bitcoin is a cheat code, and it makes sense that a company which was struggling to grow would use it first.
bitcoiners literally become top 100 wealthiest in their little 50k abitant city with a part-time job just playing financial games
i wouldn’t mind if these people were at least ambitious.
wanting to retire young and do nothing with your life is so sad to me
nah, I think the common ambition is "retire from being forced to do bullshit things for life", at least for me bitcoin is/will be a liberation from the rat-race paycheck, permitting me to to do risky long-term ambitious programs to fullfill a better sense in my life.
I also think that most of the jobs and human activities are government-sponsored bullshit that dont provide any value to any individual, we will only benefit from most people doing nothing instead of that.
So "retire and doing nothing" is still a good approximation of what I want to do, pls dont kill yourself.
that’s ok, wanting to escape a meaningless 9-5.
but wanting to do something bigger than yourself is what matters, and it sounds like you would which is good