Thanks for the thoughtful consideration and reply. Exactly the thoughts I was hoping to receive in order to build my own deeper understanding.
I agree completely that proselytizing has never been an effective means of spreading information and typically can become offensive.
I had dinner with an old friend and his wife last night who are very comfortable with their fiat savings and lifestyle although I can see in them the sacrifices to happiness and peace they subconsciously make each day to maintain it and from the years of claiming to want "a change". They are middle class folks stuck thinking there is a point where they will be comfortable enough to finally accomplish their dreams. Maybe, probably not in my mind. But the struggle gives them purpose as addiction tends to do. We never discussed Bitcoin once.
On the other hand, I have friends and family who actively show displeasure with the trickle down effects of centralized banking systems yet live in hypocrisy as their lifestyles support it and they benefit from it. These people are ones that I had mercilessly send information to to show them the interconnected nature of their behavior and displeasures. They are typically waiting for more information, waiting for a good buy in point, waiting, waiting waiting!
Others have a toe in through diversified portfolios and have a mindset for social equity and a distaste for global power structures. These ones benefit from information because, like you say, they want to learn, they know how to learn, and with the right resources they will make good informed decisions that hold conviction.
We need those with high conviction for Bitcoin, who will go on to run nodes, to understand what they hold and what it contributes too.
Sometimes too people just like to know they are a part of something bigger, that they aren't crazy to hold Bitcoin, and that the world is moving in the right direction!
What the fuck do I know, good talking to you!
