The trend is horrible. Soft totalitarianism will be very hard to fight. It's just part of ppls lives. Like soft KYC.
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people are so fucking used to it too
here in spain they ask you for your ID for EVERYTHING, to fucking deliver a package, to go to the doctor, anything -- when you push back and you tell them you're not willing to give them that info they look at your like they've never received push back... it's insane
Ppl are busy with their lives, and trying to escape the salary-life-bullshit as is. Adding more to their cognitive load is unreasonable.
We need to make the tools of freedom as insidious/covert as the tools of oppression.
Yeah, fair 🤝
We need to make converting to the Bitcoin Standard as simple as possible.
This.
And to, somehow, make the masses understand that it is the choice of money that is the worse offender to happiness, freedom, and even social contracts.
It's not about taxes, more than enabling totalitarianism, that is the core issue.
Don't use their money via banking/cc
Don't use their money via cash
Exit fiat.
That last line. Damn that hits hard.
It’s not just that people are busy. That’s true, but many people are just adult children who want someone to take care of them. They don’t want responsibility.
You can see it in the political fights. It’s not right vs left. It’s personal independence vs dependence. It’s probably the 80-20 rule and not matter how easy the independence tools are, only a minority of people will use them.
That’s why I’m hopeful about tools like Fedimint. Give people the dependence they crave while supporting independence for us all.
I’ve been 3 years in Poland and no one ever asked me id for anything. I could be illegal here and nobody would care. I haven’t been to doctors though.
They are* very hard to fight.
Lula, Macron, Trudeau, Biden and most western leaders of the world are already soft dictator and were all (re)elected democratically. This shit is going fast.
Democracy had a good run, it's been fully pwn. Had not security patches. We need the next experiment. bitcoin should change things as we take back the money printer power.
Meant to quote tweet this, but you can’t undo a retweet here.
It is because these “leaders” are elected by shadowy non-democratic power structures. It is why these puppets hide behind the word democracy so much. place, when at least in the U.S. we are not a democracy
Everyone on top want to be a dictator be it biden or trump