What was your “wake up call”?

Me? It was my deployments.

Back & forth w/no change to areas we “liberated”

Back & forth w/people still wanting us gone (I don’t blame them)

Back & forth w/no proof of WMDs or even the Mf’ing consolation prize of cheaper gas in the U.S.

I knew the game was rigged. The winners already picked & neither my family or I were on the list to even be somewhat financially stable.

We were earmarked to work harder & harder on the hamster wheel of farming fiat (aka 🧻) forever. Work more to own & live less. It was…soul crushing 😔

Then, about a decade later…I found #Bitcoin

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For me it was the food. I was a dietitian and realized everything I just told this lady to eat for weight loss was the exact opposite of how I ate to stay thin. I then started an epic rabbit trail seeing our food was rigged and gov't recommendations were based on lobbyists. Quit the field but it was instrumental to two decades later becoming a #bitcoin er.

I appreciated this comment. Following you on Nostr now.

Such a painful lesson to learn. And so many are still going through this.

My wake up call was after years of managing my own investments for retirement. I enjoy led it as a hobby but found that it was taking up a large portion of my free time in order to keep ahead.

How much time do I want to devote to pushing money back and forth? What could I be building with that time instead: relationships, software, new skills?

Multiply that by our entire world. How much time is spent on moving money around instead of innovating? What are we missing in life because of this opportunity cost?

#Bitcoin is the hardest asset. Put money there and focus on building. We will all be better for it.

Following you now.

Ruby Ridge, Waco, dot Com crash, 9-11 stuff, '08 crash, Ron Paul, fractional reserve system, stacking precious metals, learning Austrian economics, finding my freedom loving people, antiwar, Dr Robert Murphy, Nelson Nash, Jack Spirko, selling my first item with bitcoin, giving up and started stacking Sats with kyc, Becoming a maxi, hodlr, stacker and now nostr!

Bigger question is why did you serve?