I would like to take this moment to congratulate everyone on here.

You made it 15 years through education system and likely extended through corporate American yet somehow you still found yourself here on Nostr.

You escaped a system designed to deplete you so you obey, yet you are here because you or someone close to you believes in freedom of information and likely energy too.

🤝👏

Did you know the federal income tax was deemed unconstitutional until 1913?

The IRS & federal reserve were established that same year.

And then the next year World I began and they raised the tax rate.

If you support:

- endless wars

- chronic disease

- ponzi schemes

Keep paying your federal income tax…

At my company, Upspace, we will no longer be offering 401k benefits to future employees and will instead only offer Bitcoin benefits (or something to support their local community ideally like farmers market cards if it was a thing 🧐).

To the best of our ability, we will also only hire people as contractors rather than W2 employees so that they have the right to choose if they want to pay their federal taxes rather than us automatically taking from payroll.

$44 Trillion is ‘passively’ invested in retirement assets.

For context, the M2 Money Supply is $22T and Bitcoins market cap is $1.9T.

The vast majority of these passive investments go to mutual funds or other products by Vanguard, BlackRock, Fidelity, State Street, etc.

These institutions then have the power to reallocate the funds within the funds to different companies.

They also often hold the voting rights in the companies of the investments they made with others money.

They now own over 20% of all market capitalization in the U.S. and they are the single largest shareholder in 84% of them.

They can use the power to move the money (financial leverage) and voting rights (contractual pressure) to control entire markets, companies, and their employees.

This is where we saw the unity cancellation during Covid where one tweet about the potential harms of vaccines led to the user being cancelled by Twitter, PayPal, and Dropbox - three companies that have nothing to do with the other except the control mentioned above.

This is all to say that current “passive” retirement investing is one of the most unknown destructive things to society today.

NONE of this money goes back into the individuals local community.

NONE of this money goes into any small business.

Instead it contributes to organizations that are profiting off of the demise of them both.

It is feeding the belly of the beast just as much as the federal income tax.

Instead this money should be “consciously” invested into Bitcoin, local small businesses, or local land.

Bitcoin is just the easiest as it can be done in a blink of an eye, over the internet, and in micro payments vs lump sum.

The average annual passive retirement contribution is $7700.

If you contributed this to retirement assets since 2012, you’d have $160k of mostly un-liquid capital today.

If you contribute to Bitcoin instead, you’d have $1.3B liquid.

I understand 2012 is early and the price fluctuated a ton.

So here is the comparison of what you’d have today if you invested the average annual retirement contribution of $7700 in the “passive” retirement assets vs “conscious” Bitcoin since 2017:

Retirement assets: $88k

vs Bitcoin: $1.6m

There needs to be more awareness around this.

To summarize;

“Passive” investing in retirement assets indirectly supports centralization of power which causes all sorts of negative downstream effects that directly hurt you all while giving you a smaller, less liquid return.

On the other hand, “conscious” investing with those same dollars supports decentralization of power while giving you a larger, more liquid return.

P.S.

By investing in retirement assets, you indirectly support companies you don’t believe in as many of them are in the funds that your money gets allocated too like Balenziaga (via Kerig) which publicly promotes child sex abuse via their marketing campaigns.

So whether you take a philosophical approach, moral approach, or pure greed approach, Bitcoin makes more sense than passive retirement fund’s.

How about instead of the United States government hiring 70,000 people to bill the America people,

the American people unite together and start billing the United States Government.

We can get way more than 70k people.

Strength in numbers.

Digital screens have only been around for .02% of humans existence.

.035% of the light spectrum is what we can see.

What was wrong with the horse?

👀

If you look closely you’ll see what Instagram/TikTok does to you.

Hint: magicians use this trick as well.

Would you rather be programmed by God or an algorithm?

Gods programming is found in nature.

https://blossom.primal.net/256fe5f38eea912f2c8ed6c7493cb05fe151719d3dd2be11fe12e0b2fb88ba08.mov

When is it gonna be trendy to not pay federal income tax?

Strength in numbers.

How does it feel to you when a loved one is in a state of stress, anger, or pain?

Wouldn’t it feel better to you if they healed and came to a state of peace, hope, and love?

Understanding this, how do you think your loved ones feel when you are in a state of stress, anger, or pain?

Don’t you think it would feel better to them if you healed and came to a state of peace, hope and love?

The most selfish act is also the most selfless.

Focusing on YOUR inner peace is the greatest act you can do for OTHERS.

It brings the most peace to others while the alternative brings the most pain.

It is a virtuous cycle if you follow it and a vicious one if you ignore it.

The design of human nature is so beautiful.

Side note:

It is expressed best in a free market as nature is a free market.

But you must first find freedom within you to contribute to a free market outside of you.

How so?

This weekend at the primal house nostr:nprofile1qqsynu8fz2y6hw8n6wahxax8pzdt8xnrnpsgfvgsafdclwdh99vnaygpp4mhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mqprpmhxue69uhh2uewwp6hyurvv4ex2mrp0yhxxmmd2z5jft nostr:nprofile1qqsgqke57uygxl0m8elstq26c4mq2erz3dvdtgxwswwvhdh0xcs04scpremhxue69uhhyetvv9ujucmpwd6kzmrrwfuhqar09ejxzar99uq3samnwvaz7tmswfjk66t4d5h8qunfd4skctnwv46qmflaev and myself all did a phone fast.

I’d highly recommend it because,

When is the last time you went a full day without looking at a screen?

Take a second to think about it.

Digital screens have only been around for .02% of Homo Sapiens existence.

Yet it is likely you can’t remember the last full 24 hours you went without looking at a phone, computer, or TV?

Today you and me clearly have not.

But this was the only way of our ancestors.

Since the beginning of time, life on Earth evolved without digital light & sound.

Until recently.

So what is its impact on our biology?

For starters, blue light emitted by screens directly impacts our circadian rhythms.

And our circadian rhythm regulates sleep, wakefulness, hormones, digestion, body temperature, and even immune function.

Our circadian rhythm evolved to follow the sun.

We rise when it rises and we sleep when it falls.

It syncs us natural beings with the natural world.

So is blue light from screens disconnecting us from this natural intelligence?

What are we missing out on?

Instead of syncing with nature, we are syncing with algorithms.

To break free, start with a digital fast.

No screen and no schedule for 24 hours.

Leave your phone behind and instead go on an adventure in nature.

Let’s normalize digital fasting

https://m.primal.net/QYTu.mp4

Is it just me or does Pope Francis and the Israeli Prime Minister look alike? nostr:npub1qqvt0m3nlvjnssmrn33w9yh7cuq2dx5nkz8wxax9hk5hrjdnj4jqz8cn3w

Where you look is where you’ll go.

Choose your vision wisely.

And as it relates to NOSTR -

You can find God in Bitcoin, but you don’t need Bitcoin to find God.

You can find God in the Bible, but don’t need the Bible to find God.

You can find God in the Eucharist, but you don’t need the Eucharist to find God.

You can find God in the Torah, but you don’t need the Torah to find God.

You can find God in the Synagogue, but you don’t need the Synagogue to find God.

You can find God in the Qur’an, but you don’t need the Qur’an to find God.

You can find God in the Mosque, but you don’t need the Mosque to find God.

You can find God in the Vedas, but you don’t need the Vedas to find God.

You can find God in the Temple, but you don’t need Temple to find God.

You can find God in Ayahuasca, but you don’t need Ayahuasca to find God.

You can find God in Yoga, but you don’t need Yoga to find God.

God is the most uniting force of the universe, yet we create constructs that give the illusion of divide.

Nothing wrong with these constructs, but according to all of them, there is something wrong with the divide.

The vegan diet is causing the most harm to the environment.

While I respect vegans as most switch to this diet for the right intention, there needs to be more awareness about the impact it has.

The irony is that many vegans switched for environmental and ethical reasons meanwhile think about the destruction that is now happening to the monoculture land and the bees.

There is a whole slew of downstream effects of this including on plant based and animal based food.

Here’s what would be at risk:

🚨 COMPLETELY DEPENDENT ON BEES (WOULD MOSTLY DISAPPEAR)

🍯 Honey – No bees, no honey!

🌰 Almonds – 100% reliant on bee pollination.

🍒 Cherries – Highly dependent on bees.

🫐 Blueberries – Nearly all commercial blueberries require bees.

🥑 Avocados – Bees are the main pollinators.

🥒 Cucumbers – Relies heavily on bee pollination.

⚠️ SEVERLY IMPACTED (DRASTICALLY REDUCED)

🍎 Apples – Would become rare and expensive.

🍓 Strawberries – Pollination increases their size & quality.

🌽 Corn – While wind-pollinated, bees still enhance yield.

🥜 Cashews – Pollinated mostly by bees.

🌶️ Peppers & Chilies – Yield would drop significantly.

🍊 Oranges & Citrus – Many citrus fruits rely on bees for better fruit production.

🥩 INDIRECT IMPACT ON MEAT & DAIRY

🐄 Beef & Dairy Products – Bees pollinate alfalfa & clover, which feed cows.

🐖 Pork – Pigs eat crops that rely on bee pollination.

🐓 Chicken & Eggs – Chickens eat grains & plants bees help pollinate.

☕️FOODS THAT WOULD BECOME SCARCE

🍫 Chocolate (Cacao) – Bees help pollinate cacao trees.

☕ Coffee – Bees increase coffee bean production.

🥜 Peanuts – Bees enhance yield.

🍉 Watermelon – Needs strong pollination for fruit growth.

🥗 WHAT’S LEFT WITHOUT BEES?

If bees disappeared, we’d be left with wind-pollinated crops like:

🌾 Wheat, Rice, Oats, & Barley (no bee pollination needed).

🥔 Potatoes, Carrots, & Beets (root vegetables don’t rely on bees).

We must bring more awareness to this.

https://m.primal.net/QUJN.mov