This is how I would have responded if I were Warren Buffett instead of getting owned by a teenage girlā¦
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You are correct that the debt is unsustainable, and will eventually collapse under its own weight.
This means that the dollar will eventually collapse and we will transition into a new monetary system.
Currently the unproductive class is scheming up central bank digital currencies that they can bribe everyone to move over to so they have full and complete control over your wealth, property, movements, and all freedoms.
If they can turn off your money, then you cease to exist.
Because the debt is so large it resembles somewhat close to the situation United States found themselves in the 1940s and the flavor is the same as you alluded to the Federal Reserve telegraphing now⦠Financial repression.
They will continue to monetize your debt as you correctly concluded.
Meaning, Fed will continue to buy treasuries to pour liquidity into the market and keep rates down so asset and consumer prices will continue to rise long-term.
This means as long as we are in an inflationary debt based system, and more of a crumbling dollar, then you have to get into debt and hold as much good debt as you possibly can that hopefully throws off dividends or cash flow.
Thatās what we plan to continue doing at Berkshire like we have done for the last 3000 years.
Now if you really want to fix things and fix the inequality gap and provide a higher standard of living and lower cost for the entire world, you would work on creating a new system parallel to the current one.
We would build one that was deflationary, and based off of equity instead of inflationary, and based off of debt.
So the priority in my opinion should be printing off as much fake currency as possible to buy as many assets as you can, and I would buy as much as bitcoin as I could.
As far as a family or individual goes, most people are not investment gurus or real estate investors so the best thing to do is trade all of your worthless fiat currency into hard appreciating bitcoin.
Everyone can save bitcoin, no matter who you are as long as you save more than you spend.
This will defund the cronyism we see rampant across government and global organizations alike.
This will then put more freedom and wealth, back in the hands of the people.
Ironically, this will also make the governments more efficient and will make their life easier as their citizens are wealthier and not burning down the country.
Remember, the government is just made up of people, and all those people in government have to live in cities and neighborhoods and go to the same stores that you and I do.
So the more division and chaos that the government brings on knowingly or unknowingly, only makes the government life worse.
Sometimes I think we all forget that.
So choose to trade your finite time for a finite asset.
Many people make the mistake of trading a finite time for infinite liabilities.
Infinite pieces of paper or digits on a computer like Dollars or Pesos or Yen.
So be very very careful what kind of trade you are making because it may just cost you your life.
De-dollarization means that the United States has screwed up and that people have left the dollar network or we have kicked them out.
This means that the currency is weaker and weaker as more and more people leave the system.
As a currency gets weaker and people sell off our treasuries, since no one believes in the American worker is good for paying them back with their own taxes, yields start to go up and this negative doom loop reinforces itself and crashes the entire system.
This means a higher cost and lower standard of living for Americans moving forward.
Remember that wealth is never destroyed. It is merely transferred.
You are on the right side of this trade by hedging yourself in hard assets and sound money, you will be richly rewarded in this transition of de-dollarization into the next global monetary standard.
This is how I would have responded if I were Warren Buffett instead of getting owned by a teenage girlā¦
ā¢ļø
You are correct that the debt is unsustainable, and will eventually collapse under its own weight.
This means that the dollar will eventually collapse and we will transition into a new monetary system.
Currently the unproductive class is scheming up central bank digital currencies that they can bribe everyone to move over to so they have full and complete control over your wealth, property, movements, and all freedoms.
If they can turn off your money, then you cease to exist.
Because the debt is so large it resembles somewhat close to the situation United States found themselves in the 1940s and the flavor is the same as you alluded to the Federal Reserve telegraphing now⦠Financial repression.
They will continue to monetize your debt as you correctly concluded.
Meaning, Fed will continue to buy treasuries to pour liquidity into the market and keep rates down so asset and consumer prices will continue to rise long-term.
This means as long as we are in an inflationary debt based system, and more of a crumbling dollar, then you have to get into debt and hold as much good debt as you possibly can that hopefully throws off dividends or cash flow.
Thatās what we plan to continue doing at Berkshire like we have done for the last 3000 years.
Now if you really want to fix things and fix the inequality gap and provide a higher standard of living and lower cost for the entire world, you would work on creating a new system parallel to the current one.
We would build one that was deflationary, and based off of equity instead of inflationary, and based off of debt.
So the priority in my opinion should be printing off as much fake currency as possible to buy as many assets as you can, and I would buy as much as bitcoin as I could.
As far as a family or individual goes, most people are not investment gurus or real estate investors so the best thing to do is trade all of your worthless fiat currency into hard appreciating bitcoin.
Everyone can save bitcoin, no matter who you are as long as you save more than you spend.
This will defund the cronyism we see rampant across government and global organizations alike.
This will then put more freedom and wealth, back in the hands of the people.
Ironically, this will also make the governments more efficient and will make their life easier as their citizens are wealthier and not burning down the country.
Remember, the government is just made up of people, and all those people in government have to live in cities and neighborhoods and go to the same stores that you and I do.
So the more division and chaos that the government brings on knowingly or unknowingly, only makes the government life worse.
Sometimes I think we all forget that.
So choose to trade your finite time for a finite asset.
Many people make the mistake of trading a finite time for infinite liabilities.
Infinite pieces of paper or digits on a computer like Dollars or Pesos or Yen.
So be very very careful what kind of trade you are making because it may just cost you your life.
De-dollarization means that the United States has screwed up and that people have left the dollar network or we have kicked them out.
This means that the currency is weaker and weaker as more and more people leave the system.
As a currency gets weaker and people sell off our treasuries, since no one believes in the American worker is good for paying them back with their own taxes, yields start to go up and this negative doom loop reinforces itself and crashes the entire system.
This means a higher cost and lower standard of living for Americans moving forward.
Remember that wealth is never destroyed. It is merely transferred.
You are on the right side of this trade by hedging yourself in hard assets and sound money, you will be richly rewarded in this transition of de-dollarization into the next global monetary standard.
#Bitcoin is the greatest civil rights movement of all time.
Because this time itās global, not regional in America.
In the halls of Congressā¦
There are men and women, who were once elected to serve the people, now believe themselves to be rulers in a world that they can shape as they see fit.
Their arrogance is stunning and their disregard for the people they were elected to represent is appalling.
One of the most egregious examples of this self-serving behavior came from a representative in California, Brad Sherman, who recently made a comment about Bitcoin and its supposed creation out of thin air.
He clearly doesn't understand that the US government is guilty of the very same thing he accuses Bitcoin of doing.
The hypocrisy is staggering.
Just imagine if he would have admitted the obvious and exposed that truth for allā¦
Oh wait.
He did!!
Sometimes the jokes write themselves.
Hereās Brad Sherman owning himself and outing the government, all politicians, and every one world government proponent across the globe:
https://twitter.com/Dennis_Porter_/status/1656378187839078401?s=20
There you have it, simple as that.
The currency has value, āBECAUSE I SAY IT DOES!ā
What if tomorrow you say it has NO value?
Then what?
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I canāt totally blame them.
It's not just the creation of money that they have distorted, it is reality itself.
These politicians have a complete disregard for the theft of time and energy from the very people they claim to serve.
They have ceded power to global overlords and sold our sovereignty off for a profit.
The Founding Fathers wanted the capitol to be in that swamp where no one would want to go.
Now itās where politicians spend most of the year, opposite of how we were founded.
When you realize the power you can exert and you find yourselves around other people incentivized to exert control through a broken money where you can throw other peopleās time and energy at problems to keep yourself in a position of power, most of us would too.
You become the people you hang around.
Government attracts people who like power.
So in order to be liked, asked to the committee, asked to the cocktail parties and fit in you have to go-along to get-along.
Before you know it, you find yourself compromising values here and some morals there.
Not too long until you find yourself staring in the mirror unable to recognize the person that once came to DC.
Broken money has untethered our āleadersā from reality and the grift is coming to an end.
The masks are coming off and the charade is being exposed.
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It's time for a wake-up call.
We cannot continue to allow these politicians to believe that they are our rulers.
They are not.
They are our elected representatives, and they are accountable to us and work at OUR CONSENT.
It's time for us to take back our power and hold these politicians accountable for their actions.
No human lives on the earth for the āuse of governmentā or another person.
No one has a right to know what you are buying or how you are living your life as long as you arenāt harming another human. Period.
Governments have completely overstepped their bounds and forgot they work to uphold our liberty, NOT to take it from us.
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The answers?
Affix the money to energy and work.
This way society can regain its strength and the power leaves Washington.
One way to do this is by supporting decentralized currencies like Bitcoin.
These currencies give power back to the people and take it away from the politicians who have abused it for far too long.
By embracing decentralized currencies, we can take back control of our financial system and ensure that it serves the needs of the people, not just the interests of the ruling class.
This will by its nature help the government. Because the government is made up of all of us.
It will then incentivize politicians to get back to REAL work as well, providing actual value to the economy.
We must also be vigilant and engaged in the political process.
We must hold our elected officials accountable for their actions and demand that they work on behalf of the people they represent.
We must reclaim our power and demand that our elected officials work for us, not against us.
Let us get to the root cause and stop the fruitless act of putting bandaids on bullet holes.
Fix the money to fix the world.
How many times do you need to be punched in the face by evidence to realize that you are in a global information fight?
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Would love to see the history going back to general board of education and the start of this. Not many experts on the subject can go back that far.
Wonder if YouTube is censoring you for sharing Whitney out to the world.
Algo hates truth.
I tend to agree with that. We already know the current way doesnāt work so continuing down that path is insanity. Change was surely needed.
#[6]ā just posted this, speaking of Nostr development.
Honestly hadnāt thought of this perspective yet and appreciated the thought experiment nonetheless.
What are your thoughts, Derek?
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āIām not sure if weāve considered all of the implications of mixing money with social, but itās a fun experiment regardless.
The people that say zaps are the new likes⦠I like your adventurous spirit, but feel maybe thereās more to money and social than meets the eye.
When you introduce money into an app which doesnāt have a primary goal of sending money, it can get weird in terms of social dynamics and perception.
For example, content may become tailored towards getting zaps, drowning out other types of interactions and possibly eroding trust and cooperation between people.
Thereās also the weird dynamic of comparison. Even if you donāt try to, your mind may drift into āoh, they are making more than me on their notesā. I know likes elicit a similar feeling of envy (even if you are not actively envious), but I am curious how money changes things. I donāt have all the answer and suspect there are deep psychological implications.
There may be misalignment of goals as well. This is already evident now where we have some people who are solely focused on stacking. We have automated accounts who post AI generated work that wasnāt created by them ā presumably for the sake of stacking sats (otherwise why not credit?) And this is just the start. I donāt know how many of you are familiar with Steemit, but itās basically a shitcoin website that monetizes content. If you go to the site now, itās a steaming pile of shit. I doubt anyone actually reads anything. Maybe a few.. but you donāt see this website in the headlines or popping up on any meaningful channels online. As far as the world is concerned itās invisible. Not saying zap-powered content will end up in the same boat, but there are probably lessons to be learned there and things we can observe.
Social serves a larger goal than just weeding out signal in noise. Not everything needs to provide value all the time. People come to be heard, to feel part of a group, to laugh, to hate⦠and none of those things involve money. Iām not saying they couldnāt, but we donāt know the full consequence of introducing money into these types of interactions.
Iām not advocating for something being right or wrong or how to do this or that, but more generally curious about the intersection of social and money. Iām here for the ride to see how things play out and how the world reacts to it. āØāØIf you have any knowledge on this subject (psychology of money in social interactions), Iād love to hear your thoughts and perspective.ā
Do you know what I find most interesting about the 10 million dollars that nostr:npub1sg6plzptd64u62a878hep2kev88swjh3tw00gjsfl8f237lmu63q0uf63m donated to nostr:npub10pensatlcfwktnvjjw2dtem38n6rvw8g6fv73h84cuacxn4c28eqyfn34f. The amount donated is meaningful in itself, but that's not the most interesting part of the announcement. The fact that 5 million is to go towards #Bitcoin development and 5 million is to go towards #Nostr development. That means they're equally important. And, we all know how important Bitcoin will be to the future of the world, right? That's how important Nostr can be if we work hard enough. Wild. 𤯠When people realize this, they'll come, and we'll be ready.
Well said. Mind blowing when you think about it. š¤Æš¤Æ
Beautiful. The more that are doing these things the less we are all dependent on our overlords.
Americans and Westerners have gotten too weak and soft over the past 50 years.
Get prepared for chaos to thrive on backside.
1) Build community. Biggest thing by far.
2) Stack #bitcoin.
3) Food storage
4) Water/purification
5) Energy: production or generation
6) Security: ammo and firearms
Karl Marx hated himself, his family, and life.
The ultimate victim.
ā”ļø Why The Masses Get Left With The Scraps ā¢ļø
The average person waits for someone at the top to tell them what to do.
Most seek a leader instead of being a leader.
Some do more than others.
We have all fallen guilty to this.
For instanceā¦Most cannot see the money that is broken, causing all of the modern ills we are experiencing.
Theyāre waiting for a government or a figurehead to tell them things are broken & must change.
Thatās like asking a Realtor if you should sell your home by owner.
So they wait around and miss things like bitcoin.
Because itās not mainstream and being talked about all over media or in government they donāt believe it or trust their own instincts.
So most miss the boat because they are constantly looking and waiting for someone else to give them the āall clear.ā
In that time the money is already made and the average person misses the boat.

Fortunately bitcoin is just money.
A finite container for your finite time.
The best trade man has ever found so it is and always will be a good time to swap your depreciating fiat for appreciating sound money.
The lesson is in using your instincts and your intuition.
We have 6 higher faculties that only humans possess.
Intuition
Will
Reason
Imagination
Perception
Memory
Only we can hone and train ourselves on these unique skills and move off the bottom rungs of Mazlowās hierarchy permanently as a species.

Mazlowās hierarchy of needs
Letās look within and trust ourselves instead of seeking validation and reassurance from others which is often misplaced.
Government and other people are not out to save you or take care of you.
As Jim John said, āif you rely on government for your retirement you can divide your wealth by 5 at the end of your life. If you rely on yourself you can multiply by 5.ā
Hereās to be being a āplayable characterā instead of ānon-playable character.ā
Stay strong,
Brandon
Thanks! Massive abundance after we fight through the next few years rocky patch. ā”ļø
Thank you. IMO this will be very important going forward to cross the chasm. Abundance on the other side though āļø
ā”ļøā¢ļø Bitcoiner Survival Tips ā”ļøā¢ļø
We Get Scared When We Arenāt Prepared š
Thereās nothing like being āon your gameā and being āin the zone.ā
As a former pro athlete you would prepare and do everything you could to have that feeling of being in the zone where time slowed down and you felt like you were floating above the game.
This generally only happens if you are well rested and prepared.
When you were tired and didnāt have the nutrition or rest you should have, you were dragging and felt terrible.
This negative feeling breeds more negativity and stress and leads to bad decisions.
If we prepare we can be free people that donāt need overlords and give ourselves and our children the freedoms and liberties that we are endowed with.
Or, if we shrug it off we will become the serfs and prisoners we deserve to be.
The last few years have shown us that the world we once knew is changing rapidly.
Social unrest, chaos, and uncertainty are becoming the new norm.
While many people believe that the situation will improve, I believe that we are just at the beginning of a long journey that will test our resolve and strength.
Preparing for what is coming is not just about stocking up on supplies or creating a bunker.
It's about preparing yourself and your family to be self-sufficient and resilient in the face of adversity.
Here are a few things you can do to give yourself the best chances of not only surviving but thriving on the other side.
Stock up on essential supplies:
Food, water, medicine, and other essential supplies are critical to your survival. Stock up on these items in advance and make sure you have enough to last for at least several weeks at minimum.
Learn basic survival skills:
In a chaotic world, basic survival skills like hunting, fishing, and first aid can be the difference between life and death. Take some time to learn these skills and teach them to your family.
Create a support network:
Connect with like-minded people who share your values and vision for the future. Having a community of people who can support and help each other is essential during times of crisis.
Secure your home:
Make sure your home is secure and can withstand potential threats. Install a security system, reinforce doors and windows, and consider creating a safe room.
Stay informed: Stay up-to-date with the latest news and events. Know what's happening in your community and beyond so that you can make informed decisions.
Stay healthy: Physical and mental health are critical to your survival. Eat well, exercise, and take care of your mental health by practicing mindfulness and meditation.
Develop a long-term plan: Don't just focus on short-term survival. Develop a long-term plan for your future. Think about how you can become self-sufficient and self-reliant, even if the world around you is crumbling.
While we cannot predict the future, we can prepare for it.
By taking the steps above, you can give yourself and your family the best chances of surviving and thriving in a world of chaos and uncertainty.
Let's embrace the challenges ahead and come out stronger on the other side.
Stay strong.
#bitcoin #nostr prep
ā”ļøā¢ļø Bitcoiner Survival Tips ā”ļøā¢ļø
We Get Scared When We Arenāt Prepared š
Thereās nothing like being āon your gameā and being āin the zone.ā
As a former pro athlete you would prepare and do everything you could to have that feeling of being in the zone where time slowed down and you felt like you were floating above the game.
This generally only happens if you are well rested and prepared.
When you were tired and didnāt have the nutrition or rest you should have, you were dragging and felt terrible.
This negative feeling breeds more negativity and stress and leads to bad decisions.
If we prepare we can be free people that donāt need overlords and give ourselves and our children the freedoms and liberties that we are endowed with.
Or, if we shrug it off we will become the serfs and prisoners we deserve to be.
The last few years have shown us that the world we once knew is changing rapidly.
Social unrest, chaos, and uncertainty are becoming the new norm.
While many people believe that the situation will improve, I believe that we are just at the beginning of a long journey that will test our resolve and strength.
Preparing for what is coming is not just about stocking up on supplies or creating a bunker.
It's about preparing yourself and your family to be self-sufficient and resilient in the face of adversity.
Here are a few things you can do to give yourself the best chances of not only surviving but thriving on the other side.
Stock up on essential supplies:
Food, water, medicine, and other essential supplies are critical to your survival. Stock up on these items in advance and make sure you have enough to last for at least several weeks at minimum.
Learn basic survival skills:
In a chaotic world, basic survival skills like hunting, fishing, and first aid can be the difference between life and death. Take some time to learn these skills and teach them to your family.
Create a support network:
Connect with like-minded people who share your values and vision for the future. Having a community of people who can support and help each other is essential during times of crisis.
Secure your home:
Make sure your home is secure and can withstand potential threats. Install a security system, reinforce doors and windows, and consider creating a safe room.
Stay informed: Stay up-to-date with the latest news and events. Know what's happening in your community and beyond so that you can make informed decisions.
Stay healthy: Physical and mental health are critical to your survival. Eat well, exercise, and take care of your mental health by practicing mindfulness and meditation.
Develop a long-term plan: Don't just focus on short-term survival. Develop a long-term plan for your future. Think about how you can become self-sufficient and self-reliant, even if the world around you is crumbling.
While we cannot predict the future, we can prepare for it.
By taking the steps above, you can give yourself and your family the best chances of surviving and thriving in a world of chaos and uncertainty.
Let's embrace the challenges ahead and come out stronger on the other side.
Stay strong.
#bitcoin #nostr prep
This will be commonplace. Tech, medicine, cheap and abundant energy and no fiat foods will allow many to live much longer than any of us could dream of. š
This will be commonplace. Tech, medicine, cheap and abundant energy and no fiat foods will allow many to live much longer than any of us could dream of. š
There are kids that were born in the last few years that will be alive when the last Satoshi is mined on the #bitcoin network in 2140.
We just canāt even comprehend the amount of change that is going to take place in our children and grandchildrenās lifetime. Let alone ours.