When you’re going up, you feel comfortable believing that the adults have everything under control.

Then you become the adult and you realize that nobody has any idea what’s going on and this whole thing is on auto-pilot.

See the sunrise.

Hang in there. Save enough to get out and don’t look back. I’m on a similar path.

Running your own node and server is great. Buying food from local ranchers is great.

But if you’re still reliant on the State to supply your power, you’re not sovereign.

Energy is the basis of life. More Bitcoiners need to be off the grid.

Ideas are not scarce and therefore cannot be considered property

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Nothing “causes” poverty. Poverty is the natural state. The question is “what creates wealth?”

And the answer is voluntary exchange.

Hyperbitcoinization happens not when buyers say “I want to pay in bitcoin” but when sellers say “sorry, I don’t want your fiat”

One of the biggest psyops in the health space is that Gatorade is good to drink when exercising

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I’ve never understood why people cheer for the State to accumulate the asset that we want for ourselves

1. Trump institutes tariffs.

2. Foreigners cash out of their US securities and stop buying treasuries.

3. Stock markets fall, 10-year rates climb.

4. Pension funds and retirement accounts are threatened, interest expense grows.

5. Fed prints boatloads of money to pick up the slack.

6. New liquidity flows into scarce assets.

7. Bitcoin moons.

What am I missing?

If Trump is trying to reduce the interest expense, he’s failing

They’re abandoning the dollar. They just can’t say it yet.

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The boomers losing their minds over their 401k’s

Stock market has circuit breakers to halt trading when values collapse too fast.

Could it be any clearer that this is a scam?

100%. The second part of Mallers’ thesis is the following: not only does the US no longer want to issue the world reserve currency, but nobody else wants to either. Sure you get free stuff for a little bit, but then you hollow out your middle class. Not a great deal in the long run.

If nobody wants to issue a world reserve currency, we’re going to have a neutral world reserve currency.

Unless you’ve decided that you don’t want the world reserve currency anymore (because of Triffin’s dilemma). This is Jack Mallers’ thesis.

You have to choose between having the world’s reserve currency and having a middle class and manufacturing base.

You don’t get to have both.

Upon the tariff news, the intellectually curious went back to their Mises/Rothbard/Hazlitt books to see what the greatest minds in economics have to say about the topic.

But that’s too much work for most people. Instead, they turned on their TV to see what the “authorities” are saying.