The plastic straw issue, on both sides, is the dumbest fucking thing I’ve ever heard. I hope all these people go find something else to suck on.
The cycle of plastic waste, and the endless consumerism of useless shit is the death of humanity. No piece-meal regulation or de-regulation is going to make a difference.
#btc shifts us to better think of the future. The fundamentals behind waste and conservation come with it.
Let’s hope that happens in our kid’s lifetime. Ours if we’re lucky.
One thing that BTC does is make everyone want to defer consumption -- the money will be worth more, and the things you need will be cheaper/better... if you wait. And so you "make do" with what you already have, until you really need to buy. So that helps.
And BTC, in the long run -- and this may be unpalatable to some people, but I think it's true nonetheless -- will grant great prosperity to the prudent and the responsible and the smart, so they will be able to have and support proportionally more children than the spendthrift and the foolish and the stupid. Over several generations, this will bring about an improvement in human character and intelligence, if it isn't stopped from happening by "do-gooders."
I’m glad you said that, because the reality is, and seems like it always has been, that those that make responsible choices for the future are the ones that survive to get there! That’s the cold hard, and unpalatable (to some) truth.
#btc is the perfect blend of future/regression mindset. Back to a limited-supply and spending mentality, but with a technologically advanced method so we are not ACTUALLY ever going back to an outdated system.
Another way that fractional-reserve banking makes us wasteful is not much talked about: When the bank makes a $1000 loan, it creates $1000 out of thin air. (Most on NOSTR know that already.)
But what few think about is that the bank then demands, not $1000, but, say $1100 in "repayment." This extra percentage then has to be extracted from someone's real wealth, or it must be itself created later by future loan-triggered economic activity. And in a total fiat system, where all "dollars" are actually loans, the economy must ALWAYS GROW so it can pay the total principal plus interest, even though the interest amount was never created.
That is why the pundits always get scared when there is not enough "growth." You can never have a steady state, even though people can be perfectly happy with a steady state. The whole fractional reserve house of cards requires cancer-like growth at all times.
Of course. What we call Growth today is, in the end, an effort of trying to escape from a wolfpack known as Debt.
Yes, these are all good points! And worth mentioning. It’s also a good segway into another focus of mine; that “most NOT on #nostr DON’T know these things”.
These kind of simply laid out basic concepts do seem redundant to this community, but most of my irl social circle is largely numb and desensitized to any conversations about “crypto”.
#BTC has been mainstream washed into association with every other crypto scam and shitcoin. There is no distinction to the average nostr:nprofile1qqsvwct7ssehccgu040egxe4k8k9ru4wd605r2kfv9sf94gsu8pftcqa6rlhf user what a crypto investment is over a stock investment, and an excellent job is done by advertisers and “News” agents to fustigate all of the deeper underlying principles behind scarcity. I try as best I can to engage in good conversations about it, but there are so many concepts and principles behind it that #nostr folks have already normalized.
Changing minds is about building healthy relationships to boot.
These are good conversations to have on and off nostr, so thank you! All input is appreciated.
