The problem in fiat world is that trying to help people with good service requires licences and fees and registrations pushing up the costs leaving you unable to give them good service at good cost. I always end up impoverishing myself and my family when I run a business because helping people and providing excellent service takes precedent above profits.
On a bitcoin standard my way of serving customers and doing business would work. On a fiat standard I can only help corporations who can afford my service because they get cheap credit. They want to pay me because they can write my services off as a cost to get a tax cut. No one is helped and no one feels satisfaction. They paid me because insurance companies force them to for better premiums and what not.
Now the average mom and pop are priced out of the market because I have to comply with industry standards. I worked my ass off neglecting my wife and kids paying all my profits into rents and utilities and we would barely afford food without my wife doing all types of creative odd jobs just for us to get by.
We chucked everything. Moved to the country side and now we work for ourselves from a home where we are not paying rent, no utility bills. We spend good quality family time and we garden and keep chickens drinking well water.
We come by with less but we are healthier and happier. I even carry drinking water into the house. I lost weight and became more toned.
Bitcoin makes all this possible because we can plan and hope with less. Our savings are more than well off business men because they are all thick in debt. Most wealthy people I know have their wealth tied up in real estate. They are trapped while I am free. I consider myself blessed.
With freedom comes much self-accountabikity and responsibility, and a lot of people aren't prepared for any of that. But to their credit, it's very hard to untangle oneself from the system, and you put it well that anyone can, if they try. That's the life, right there. And what's weird is that it's how a lot of our ancestors lived hundreds of years ago, but back then it was normal and not looked on as extremist or borderline criminal, like it is today (at least, by the establishment and its apologists).
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Similar here. Moved from the city to the country, years ago work from home, bought a house with bitcoin, no debt.
Everything is fine except the ridiculous job I do nothuf at which pays me well.
In the summer time I keep myself busy in the garden outdoors. I have an awesome mancave here in the basement too but November to April I get down.
Snow, clouds, cold, nothing to do at work.
Depression is a monster. I pray that you find comfort in something. Something than makes the mundane/bleak meaningful and worth it.
It's always darkest before the dawn.
I guess some of the things you mentioned already did that for me and its time to find something new again. Thank you!
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