This goes out to all the #Bitcoin slimeballs, grifters, spooks and bootlickers.

There is no virtue in teaching freedom technology to the powerful people in the world. They did not arrive at these positions, because they were more skilful or hard-working than others.

Meritocracy is a lie.

Power corrupts.

Who can say for sure that the trojan horse doesn’t work both ways?

Instead of teaching billionaires and presidents about #Bitcoin with a means to personal enrichment, rather focus on helping the powerless with a means to global empowerment.

For the gratitude of the latter, will outlast the wealth of the former.

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Agreed. But the former seem more open to it, while the latter call you crazy when you bring them the good news.

We choose to go to the moon. We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win, and the others, too.

Oldie but Goldie from Antonopoulos. It's about empowering individuals. Subtitles with many languages.

https://youtu.be/Pkgo05Hdnfg

"Meritocracy is a lie.

Power corrupts."

Answer:

Give more people more power..... corrupt more people...

"... helping the powerless with a means to global empowerment."

And since meritocracy is a lie, we'll be empowering folks who don't merit it as well.?...?.?

Everyone deserves to be empowered.

One becomes fully human ones they scorn to rule and refuse to be ruled.