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Everything is about balance, but it's also about value for value.

Nobody wants to see everything someone posts be an ad, but there's also nothing wrong with selling your skills. Peer to peer commerce is what the world needs to relearn. The guilt and anxiety around it is a mindset that we were trained into by society. We've been taught to be ashamed of promoting ourselves, that the only value we have is as a cog in the wheel of society. It's what makes us look at someone building something great and say "It must be nice" instead of doing something ourselves.

We have to untrain the fiat mentality within ourselves.
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Care 2y ago

I think for me is I have to see the non using people in it to start..or it’s repulsive to me

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πŸ₯©β„π•–π•Ÿπ•–π•˜π•’π••π•– ₿𝕦π•₯π•”π•™π•–π•£βš‘ 2y ago

But that's the thing, you're not using people if you are providing value. I've felt the same way, and it took years of people actually asking me to sell stuff to them for me to realize that.

Just like you like to support the folks at a local market, or an artist, people want to do commerce with people they know. They want the personal connection.

Exchanging value, whether in words, actions or currency doesn't have to be shameful or manipulative.