It's sickening to read, and so valuable to become aware. The last grain of respect for anybody working for these LEGAL mafioso firms, I think I lost that grain somewhere reading this book.

A sense of imposter syndrome guilt came over me to realise that what "WE" built in the last 70 years to be so relatively free and rich and comfortable was in large part due to the hard work done for us in countries we failed to respect and ignored by never mentioning them (Schools? Tv? Parents? Friends?) It wasn't part of our history books because the subject is highly immoral, unethical, and does not make us the good guys, imho.

Continued hidden slavery for the benefit of the prosperity and wealth for the west...

We did not learn from our war crimes, we kept doing them out of sight. And out of sight, is out of mind onfurtunately.

I was born in the west and bennefitted because of my geolocation. That's it.

It reminds me a bit of a sci-fi movie where there is a floating city of wealthy people complaining about the little things, unaware of the earth below them providing for everything they think they deserve up there and actually keeping the floating city running. The floating city peoples work consists of turning the dials so now and then...

I am happy and grateful for the discovery of the bitcoin protocol. Ten years in now, and the sense of hope has never been this great that there will be a way to opt-out of this rat-race and actually have time and the means to help and teach others to do the same.

#bitcoin