That’s what the mandibles is—incredibly objective thought exercise on a helpless liberal mentality.

She said her job is to worry and create doomer thought exercise scenarios and Matts can be to solve them for her.

A lot of people can’t handle the burden of figuring this stuff out because you have to concurrently hold/understand this very bleak outlook of projecting 20th century economics into the near future at the same time as then understanding Bitcoin and how it has significant potential to finally solve the issue. Add in personal life stress and you have a breakdown of the process for most normal people. Exhausting.

Lionel drops the line of thought after she finished writing the book because it is too depressing to maintain w/o a solution.

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Odell made a great point, though - Mandibles is entertaining rather than stressful for Bitcoiners because we have hope. It’s the hopelessness that makes burdens seem unbearable. Hope fixes this.

That spark of comprehension is enough of a learning curve that we get to drag most people kicking and screaming into an abundant future.

It sounds like a ponzi scheme to a lot of people.

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