does anyone alive know what is is ACTUALLY like to be an American?
Like, a real feeling of freedom, one where you know no one is going to fuck with you.
sometimes I wonder.
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follow up to this note. Bitcoiners need to check the fuck in. We have arrived, let's act like we're free.
The feeling of freedom comes with the ability to make it costly for others to try and take that freedom.
Bitcoin is unconfiscatable property that gives freedom back to the individuals who hold it.
nah. I think the feeling of freedom comes from a natural place of never being scared, repressed or censored. it's an absolute thing.
Lions are free from fear, repression, and censorship. Lions will also fuck you up if you mess with them. Freedom is defended with force, otherwise it's free for the taking.
the defense of the thing isn't the baseline.
Freedom is defended by what? Making everyone play nice and respect contracts? It's all over as soon as soon as someone realizes it's pretty profitable to be mean, break your contract, and take your shit. For free. Because you didn't make it costly to attack you.
The defense of the thing isn't the baseline. I'll repeat it because I think it's important.
The baseline is the thing itself. When two actors in a free market are engaging in commerce, the actors should be acting in each other's best interests.
Freedom is first defended by positive incentives, then it is defended by force. The two are separate, I think.
Yes, early 90s to 2000, I do
I would argue than no one alive has experienced what it really feels like to be 100% free.
Never felt free paying 40% in taxes
