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Why did you think you could fix poverty?

That's an even bigger Tl;DR, but essentially, the same reason Steve Jobs thought he could build a better computer or Elon Musk thinks he can colonise mars.

I have a global view created by my father and built a multi decade plan on how to achieve this. I expected it to be completed after my lifetime, but I knew it was possible.

The factor I hadn't anticipated was ironically this post below.

I may write a long form article on it someday, but I'm now revising my plan for a version 2, which is as yet unclear.

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ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 8mo ago

no need, Ludwig von Mises already wrote 900 pages about how markets work to make people less poor

poverty is always the product of violence

abolishing government is the main thing you need to do, along with teaching people that markets can provide security against crime and violence

mike 8mo ago

Interesting, the it can't be done because somebody wrote an article explaining why.

This works perfectly until somebody doesn't bother to read the article and just does it anyway 😂

Seriously, you know this, right?

ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜ ᴏꜰ ᴍʟᴇᴋᴜ 8mo ago

you want me to read an article after i already read a book written in 1953 that explains how government violence causes poverty?

i think the onus is on you to read Human Action not me to read some hipster dumbass lefty shit

mike 8mo ago

The onus on me is to not read any previous enlightened thought, because nobody knows anything until you actually succeed and do the thing that everybody tells you can't be done.

You do understand that, don't you?

Also, why are you assuming I have a political hegemony or am a person of bad character?

That normally means your loosing an argument and is the last refuge.

But surely you want to loose the argument. If you do, world poverty is solved and while I hear plenty of arguments about how difficult this is or why it can't be done, you alone would be unique in thinking this is a bad thing.

𝕞ptf 8mo ago

That's so true Mike, many times getting some mini trauma is enough to wake you from your stupor and change and adjust path, but have seen many now still ride it til the bitter end rather than change. I guess there is comfort in things staying the same and the pain of changing your beliefs and admitting you were wrong is not always forcing change depending where your ego is.

mike 8mo ago

I think this is true for many, but also many others relish change. I presume most Bitcoiners fall into the seeking change category and the HFSP's will be dragged along at some point because the pain of not doing so is worse.

I've had a smart phone since 2003, my wife knew I was a nerd, so just assumed it was me being nerdy. She resisted getting a smart phone until I bought her one around 2010.

I now have trouble convincing her to look up and appreciate the real world.

𝕞ptf 8mo ago

I still remember when the mainstream didn't use internet on their phones, it was just us trailblazers and before that I remember showing my Dad YouTube when it first came out... He asked how do you use it? LOL 😅 type in a song you like and hit enter...

mike 8mo ago

I’m so old I used WAP on my dumb phone 😂

𝕞ptf 8mo ago

I still have my 3GP videos.. probably should convert them

mike 8mo ago

😱