Ramsey steps once they decide to be humble:
1) Save 1M sats for en emergency fund
2) Pay of all debt, sell the house to buy more sats
3) Stack sats until you have 3-6 months of expenses
4) Keep stacking until you have enough to borrow against for your kids' college
5) Stack more until you have enough #bitcoin for retirement
6) Rent instead of buying a house to keep skyrocketing insurance costs, property tax, and maintenance out of your life and maintain flexibility in case the local government wants to fuck around
7) Keep stacking and give. Maybe buy a house once property taxes are abolished in your jurisdiction of interest
I hope we get to see the day when states cannot pay for war because they can’t afford it because they don’t have enough #bitcoin
This is indeed a great set up. It will serve as a good reality check. Because once 4 years go by and all remains mostly as is, more people will realize how useless voting truly is (and that it always comes down to a manipulative politician dangling the latest carrot to blackmail you into voting through fear and/or emotion). We’ll need several of these until voter turnout crashes. Sure, a couple promises might be kept, a couple of headlines for the believers so they can say “see he is working on it”… but nothing truly groundbreaking. In another 4 years, we’ll still have most people thinking that the next time will work because this time “insert excuse,” but little by little more will see that kneeling didn’t work. All along, it just meant accepting their rigged game, which keeps the machine that put Ross in jail going, and in turn, may keep punishing others in the future just like it did with him. In the wise words of someone “there is them, and there is you”
Don’t get me wrong, I say they are irrelevant regarding my quality of life in a particular jurisdiction. They of course are relevant in the impact they create in their jurisdiction over a long period of time. But whether we like it or not, they will do whatever their power allows them to do. Until that power is capped (bitcoin may do this), your vote is just an illusion for you to think you’re involved in the decision making. This is why I have learned that one cannot get attached to a specific location, as in time, that attachment will be used against me by those in power. If you put yours and your family’s wellbeing as your priority, then you simply can ignore what politicians do until it bothers you, in which case you simply move and leave the problem behind. There is always a place coming up as one is going down. It is in this way I see them as irrelevant. Unfortunately humans cannot have nice things for long, and when a society figures out a great status quo, overtime, that society will take it down. There is much precedent about the cycles of civilizations. Once, the best place to be at was Athens, and Rome, and London... And it will keep changing.
FYI: Mainstream media’s politically correct way to state that they are censoring free speech that isn’t aligned with their agenda is now as follows: “addressing misinformation.” Be on the lookout for these code words.
GM #nostr
I cannot speak to what you reference because I don’t know what happened. But I personally come from a place that doesn’t compare to the US, and I know I had a choice, and I left. It was hard, I didn’t want to, but I did it anyway. And I didn’t wait for anyone to make the world around me better. Those who stayed, they’re not in a good place even though they keep voting harder. They haven’t figured out that politicians are irrelevant when it comes to improving ones place in the world
I don’t believe to be above or below politicians. I would describe my relationship with them as distant. I just realized they are irrelevant if you make the right choices. I live my life in a way that serves me, and I don’t wait for another human to improve my life. Whenever I wanted change or didn’t agree with something, I simply left and moved somewhere better. I’ve lived in many countries; each time I moved, my life improved significantly. Leaving really is the ultimate voting hack. The beauty of the world is that you don’t need politicians to change things for you; there are always places where the changes you seek already took place. You do, however, have to be comfortable with change, and most people aren’t. In my case, I do pay some taxes, and I happily do so because they aren’t illogically high. Those who pay half their income in taxes should probably evaluate their situation. I would understand why voting then becomes so critical to their lives.
My humble suggestion would be don’t make a public post if you can’t handle a different opinion without getting triggered. Your reaction says more about you than you probably realize. I have no sense of superiority for my opinion, it is just what I believe.
Someone said it better:
We reject: kings, presidents, and voting.
We believe in: rough consensus and running code.
—David Clark,1992
If you play their game, you’ll be accepting their rules by default. Which is fine. It’s by design. They know it. Just don’t justify accepting their rules by selecting a specific set of reasons. You probably still need to play that rigged game a few more times, and maybe one day you’ll realize there was never any excuse that could possibly justify taking the bait. You cannot bring the system down from within, it is set up to resist any such attempt. If you vote, you’re kneeling.
The mainstream media is a good source of truth in that you can be 100% certain the truth is either the opposite of what they say or everything but what they say. The closest they will ever get to the truth is by deceiving you with real facts but a misleading narrative. So the best advice if you want a peaceful life is to simply ignore it
If you have to choose between trusting the government or taking a risk, always take the risk
For the first time in a long time, the young have no incentive to care, protect, or fight for their countries and their communities. In fact, their incentive is to do as little as possible and to leave. The US and most Western countries are fucked, actually.
If or when the times comes;
What are they going to fight for? Their countries’ values? Which values? Whose values? Last they checked, there isn’t much of a consensus on this (by design). And regardless of whose values are considered to be “right,” it doesn’t seem like any of them are working for them right now anyway.
Their homes? Whose homes? The ones they can never hope to own because of the current system.
Their families? Whose families? The ones they don’t have because they cannot afford them or were told aren’t worth having.
Their land? Whose land? The one the government ignores in favor of foreign lands.
Their property? Which property? Their debt? Because that’s all they will ever own given the circumstances.
Food for thought. #Bitcoin may be a solution, but until most realize this, the direction things are going in is not good.
When I watched season 1 of Rings of Power I decided to overlook the overwhelming ideological propaganda because I really like the Lord of the Rings (shouldn’t have). However, after the first episode of season 2, I decided to stop watching it for good. In this case, the reason is pretty absurd, but real. I cannot literally see what’s happening. Meaning, the screen is almost black during entire scenes, where you can only hear but not see anything (even with TV brightness settings at max). This is a failed production, in my opinion. I regret giving them the benefit of the doubt by watching season 1, and I regret overlooking the values of those behind the production.
GM #nostr
nostr:npub1exv22uulqnmlluszc4yk92jhs2e5ajcs6mu3t00a6avzjcalj9csm7d828 is a game changer. If you are paranoid about privacy, this is it.
Stressful day of work, I go into the living room, and my wife is playing with my son; he’s laughing like he heard the greatest joke of all time, The Hobbit playlist playing in the background, sun shinning, 1#bitcoin is still 1#bitcoin. Stress is gone.
A state that kills children indiscriminately is a failed state. Little kids aren’t responsible for adults’ lack of capacity to resolve disputes. What’s happening in Gaza is terrorism. The current fiat system is enabling unlimited war without accountability.
#gm
I still remember the time when my last tenant threatened to make things difficult, when the HOA threatened to sue me, and all of the times that the leeches that rent-seek in the real estate business took from me. I remember thinking how crazy it was that so many people had me by the balls and how little control I had over my own wealth. I remember the anger, the frustration, and the lack of hope. I also remember the day I said to myself:
Fuck it.
#bitcoin
For those who still battle the idea of contributing to your 401K due to the match instead of selling every dollar for #bitcoin, here is a reminder. If you can’t use YOUR money when you want to, IT ISN’T YOURS. Fuck 59 and a half, and all of their rules and penalties. Why would you give them the power to penalize you for your use of YOUR savings? Why would you let them tell you when or how to use YOUR savings? Just like with all things fiat, the "match" is the little carrot they put in front of you to lead you down a path they control. They tell you a flashy story about how capital gains are tax-free, and you play the game with them by being happy about it. If that weren't enough, they categorize your savings as income whenever you withdraw them, and they tax you AGAIN on those dollars (putting to question whether the match cancels out at the end of the day). Don't feed into the current system. Stop using state-sponsored instruments like 401Ks and IRAs. GM
I can’t stand the Ramsey people telling Americans that lifestyle inflation is to blame for their ‘paycheck to paycheck’ situation. May be the case for a few, but for most it’s the fact that they cannot out-earn the real inflation that results from the Fed and the fractional reserve banking Ponzi. They’ve been steering their listeners into getting their savings diluted in the stock market, locking up taxed dollars meant for savings in state instruments that consider withdrawals as income, and taxing them again on the way out. All while simultaneously steering them away from #bitcoin. I wonder if their company will survive the loss of trust that will follow when their audience realizes the truth.