Listen, there’s two options.

1. We try to scale Bitcoin Layer 1 to 8 Billion people and compromise the network, destroying its decentralization and allowing it to become corrupted. Nobody ends up with sound money, censorship resistant transactions, or a beater digital asset.

2. We keep Bitcoin as it is and preserve its decentralized nature, with only a few hundred million transacting on Layer 1, but the economic benefits of sound money transfer through second layers to the entire world.

You can throw around words like “elitist” all you want. I’m a Pizza chef who makes a median salary. In no way is this a “I don’t think poor people should have Bitcoin” position.

There are just realities to the world that you need to accept. I’d love it if everyone had free health care, free food, ample cheap housing, and ample cheap energy too. But I cannot just mandate that be the case. There is an objective cost to good things which must be paid by someone. In the case of Bitcoin, this cost is paid by people like me, the plebs who run the nodes and transact with it.

Work to find a solution to your problem, donate money to poor people who want to transact, or piss off. I’ve done the first two - and I’d prefer you do the first two, but if you’re going to cry and call people elitists and say Bitcoin isn’t freedom money because it’s not free, then the third option works just as well.