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Orange-pilling someone is like performing bloodless brain surgery while the person is awake. You have to reach in and adjust paradigms they've believed in for decades, remove false beliefs they cling to, and kill sacred cows they will fight to defend even though they don't even know why they are defending them.

It's a lot like trying to get someone who's been vegan for decades to try a carnivore diet. The best strategy I've found is to just say, "try it for 90 days". This bypasses all of the philosophy, religion & false-beliefs, and trusts the underlying physiology and biochemistry.

I wonder if a similar strategy for orange-pilling new people would be as follows:

When someone asks any type of question about BTC, answer with, "Let me see your phone." Then quickly download/set up Strike, and buy them $5 worth of BTC. Then calmly hand back the phone and say, "You now own some BTC, you should learn more about it!"

Then stoically walk away...

Thoughts?

MAHDOOD 9mo ago

I send Bitcoin as a gift to friends for various things like having a baby or for their birthdays. ALL of them had their Bitcoin more than double by now but none have gone down the rabbithole. Staying poor is a choice 🤷‍♂️

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Badsamm 9mo ago

I sent a Coinbase invitation to a co worker this morning. We both get $20 in BTC just for her signing up and making her first purchase. Free money and it’s at least the 5th time I have sent her it to her.

She won’t.

MAHDOOD 9mo ago

You’re asking her for too much brain usage

Sat Nakamoto 9mo ago

How many people think about their freedom on a daily basis? It’s checked off at the bottom of the Maslow hierarchy of needs. 🫤

“If you think you’re free, there is no escape possible.” -Ram Dass

MAHDOOD 9mo ago

There’s a quote I love but can’t remember exactly how it goes. Basically it said that the greatest threat to freedom is thinking you are free when you’re really not. When you look at how much people pay in taxes and the abuse they tolerate when it comes to surveillance, it’s hard to say America is land of the free.

Sat Nakamoto 9mo ago

It is possible you are a raging maniac in a room full of sensible folks 😄

Sat Nakamoto 9mo ago

I think people can feel the lack of it when they are confronted with real life situations. But the folks that are power literate are pretty good at putting the chains on softly and quietly and with usually with the people’s own consent.

MAHDOOD 9mo ago

Yeah those sneaky bastards are good

V3spering 9mo ago

Same here. I used to gift sats thinking they’d get it once it doubled. Nope—still treat it like Monopoly money. Now I only gift 丰 to my kids. Staying poor really does seem like a lifestyle choice.

MAHDOOD 9mo ago

I went to Portland a few years ago and saw large groups of homeless people hanging out and taking naps in public parks. I was surprised that the homeless problem was so bad until someone corrected me and said that this is like a hippy lifestyle choice. Those homeless want to live carefree and not put in the work. Seems like a similar way of thinking for the poor normies.

V3spering 9mo ago

I think most people don’t stay poor because they’re embracing some carefree hippy ideal. It’s usually fear—fear of risk, fear of stepping outside the system—or just plain intellectual laziness. Thinking is hard, and doing something with that thinking is even harder. 🤷‍♂️

MAHDOOD 9mo ago

I agree but I would argue the homeless hippies are also afraid. They’re afraid to work for a better life and still fail. So it’s like a way to cope.

V3spering 9mo ago

True