When they called for Musk they asked for a benevolent dictator when they should have asked for freedom.

Musk is providing instruction on how to limit the reach of ideological enemies on Xitter.

Not being able to chose your own algo already seems outmoded, but the autist in chief has taken that to another level.

Decentralized platforms like Nostr can't truly ban anyone, they can only try to hide the content, because once information is published, it's essentially impossible to completely erase it from the internet.

Just remember why mainstream media produces daily click bait and puff pieces about Australian property.

Tooooootally not a ponzi

If you don't pay attention to your children, they will turn into furries

I definitely think Bitcoin will end wars in due time.

Unconfiscatable, uncensorable, limited money.

This will change everything in due time.

#austriches look, it’s a pretty merry Christmas if you saved in bitcoin instead of the pacific peso

I MAY NOT ALWAYS BE RIGHT BUT I WILL ALWAYS CALL THINGS AS I SEE THEM AND TAKE RESPONSIBILITY WHEN I GET THINGS WRONG.

G’day nostriches 🌦️

I’ve been away from nostr for a few weeks. No particular reason, just busy and got out of the habit. Have to say I missed it.

Haven’t been wasting time though. I’ve had a play with my Seedsigner and made a multisig wallet in testnet, stacked sats , spent time with bitcoiners (🧡), helped degoogle a Pixel, bought a Pixel to degoogle for myself, bought a Bitaxe and a second hand X1 Carbon laptop to install Linux and start mining with the Bitaxe.

₿ is fun 😁

#AUStriches

True or false: most people on nostr are over 30, and many over 40.

The only problem with Nostr is it’s too nice here…

I feel like this is more my home, community, and people; which is wonderful and a space I really needed, but I need a bit more of a fight. I’m considering returning to X in 2025 so I can keep fighting the retards and do my part to help get more people on the lifeboat of Bitcoin and Nostr before it’s too late.

I know it’s bad for my health, but so are all wars.

I’ve got Turchin in my book pile for next year so can’t yet comment on that theory specifically, but I’ve posted about similar before: nostr:note14hd2z48knluwy5t77ff6zkkf6fw4zrk3h06g4v2ttgakk67hqrusuv56eg

And whilst you’re right about wages not being a great proxy for productive value to society, it being heavily skewed by financialisation (all the best minds go to Hedge Funds instead of working as engineers) and regulation (McKinsey et al creating industry around Gov policy), that wasn’t my point.

My point was that if you want productivity to grow then you want the one earning $300k to have more of that pie available so they can go and be entrepreneurial.

Most people think of people like Zuck starting FB out of a dorm when they think of entrepreneurs - they think young guys with little behind them. In reality most entrepreneurs are 30-40 who have accumulated enough wealth, experience and knowledge that they can branch out on their own to start something with their capital.

Taking half their shit away from them every year makes it less and less viable for these people to flip from employee to entrepreneur because they can’t accumulate the capital needed to start, they’re stuck living comfortable upper middle class lives as wagies but can’t take that next step which would actually be much more beneficial to broader society.

Yeah I’m all-in with Plato at this point. Democracy is ostensibly shit and only tyranny is worse although the line between the two in the modern world is barely existent. People point to Churchill’s famous quote to justify democracy and ignore the fact that he got to the very top of the democracy tree and abused the shit out of the position and was instrumental in millions of deaths.

As to your progressive taxes - who is likely to produce more in the economy? The one whose output is valued at $10k or the one on $300k?

All taking 50% of the latter’s is doing is entrenching government to be the only one with means to address market inefficiencies, which is the most inefficient way of doing so.

It’s harming far more than it’s helping.

Hi Sarah, Welcome to #Nostr! I’m from Adelaide. There is an #AUstriches hash tag that you might want to use for anything you post relevant to aussies and to see what some of the other aussies on here are posting!

Taxation is not an attempt to redistribute violently.

Taxation *is* violence.

Yes violent Revolution is also natural. Democratic governments have no qualms doing anything and everything to suppress that because they’re the first on the chopping block when society is imbalanced.

That’s the whole point of redistribution for them. They believe they can balance the scales between the 2 and effectively arbitrage their position at the top of the pyramid to enrich themselves and their friends whilst convincing the poorest half of the population it’s the top 10% who are the only reason they’re not themselves better off.

It’s a ridiculous game which holds everyone back.