That's literally censorship by "natural selection." The means is different, the intent and the ends are identical.

Quality rising and garbage being buried isn’t censorship it’s natural selection. No one is stopping you from being garbage, you just can’t force people to like it or amplify it.

Also. I didn’t get a response to what I thought was a good set of points to get some discourse going. Unsure how to interpret that.

That's soft censorship. Same as the reddit downvote. The outcome is the same: Dissent gets squashed, conformity gets elevated. The means are just ones that let you pretend you're not censoring anybody.

There is no censorship, you're just rewarded for bad takes

L. Tolstoy about bitcoi price prediction: "We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom." #BPP

Mr Bob Meowley, reading The #Bitcoin Standard, realizing that fiat money is just paper.

No, it's degeneration.

Minimum Wage:

The labor market, like any other market, is subject to the forces of supply and demand. If labor is being undervalued, this indicates a supply/demand imbalance. You cannot correct a supply/demand imbalance by simply setting an artificial price floor in the market.

You have to look at why more people are selling labor than buying labor. When you do, you realize that there are many unnecessary barriers to starting your own business and hiring employees. There are many people out there with good business ideas who are not pursuing them. They might if there was less friction in starting their own business.

But how much does increasing demand for labor increase wages?

Case study:

Williston, North Dakota. (2010ish if I remember right? During the oil boom.)

North Dakota's minimum wage was the federal minimum wage of $7.35/hr.

The local Walmart was hiring positions starting at $18.50/hr. The cost of living in North Dakota is very low. This is more than a living wage. This is how much Walmart had to pay to attract any workers because there were so many options for employment in the area with the recent oil industry boom.

This didn't require any new minimum wage laws being passed. All that it required was a strong economy. Fix the economy and the labor market will thrive.

Gettin zapped in Sats for your addiction instead of selling your creation to advertisers and political parties is progress!!

I used to be addicted to Twitter.

Now I'm addicted to Nostr.

I'm not sure if that's progress or not... 🤔

Alby is not giving me incoming transaction notifications and it's annoying.

I want to see a notification pop up every time somebody zaps me.

Thanks for the historical context. Very interesting and there’s a lot of truth there.

Are you Christian? (You don’t have to answer)

zapping has a real cost, increases behaviors that receive zaps line posting alpha, while unwanted behaviors, spam, go unrewarded

Who is mammon?

Interesting point about the rush of power.

I would love to see an anthropologist/psychologist comment on the mainstream nostr crowd.

They’re programming themselves to zap above all else. Losing all nuance and renouncing real interactions. Making everything entirely one dimensional. And it seems they haven’t actually thought through the environments bred by zaps.

Seems ironic to care so much about financial freedom to then renounce their neurological freedom and create a central zap authority.