It's not the case for everyone, but for a lot of people, participating in something that they perceive as bigger than themselves is really important. They want to leave a tiny mark that goes beyond their own life in some way in terms of reach or in terms of time.

Sometimes it's religion, sometimes it's patriotism, sometimes it's a certain political/ideological movement, sometimes it's a professional guild, sometimes it is advancing technology, sometimes it is advancing art, etc. Could be any number of things.

Mine is mixed, but it's basically the intersection of technology and human rights. I want to support technologies like Bitcoin and Nostr and others that empower individualism and human rights. People should be able to engage in transfers of information and commerce largely unrestricted. They should be able to protect themselves from currency dilution. They should be able to do this regardless of their race, religion, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, or whatever, as long as they are not actively trying to hurt others. It should require probable cause and the allocation of deliberate resources and time by authorities to prevent bad people from doing these things, rather than being automatically applied to everyone as a matter of course. And this can't really be asked for; the technology has to be built and shared so that the burden of difficulty is on those trying to make it otherwise.

And for me, that means educating people about these technologies, providing capital or economic guidance to people these technologies, otherwise doing whatever small part I can to help improve the success or adoption of these technologies.

Other than that, I just want to leave my little slice of the world better than I found it. I want to help rather than hurt. I want to beautify rather than destroy. I want to unify differing views through objectivity and open talk and help create collaboration and coexistence, rather than sow unnecessary division. This doesn't scale as well and can't win as decisively as technology can, so it's mainly just my side thing.

What's yours? What is the thing(s) that you want to participate in that are bigger than yourself?

The relationship between inflation as a policy and religion may be important. Anyone out there who can share any sources related to this?

History will not be a kind judge to those who advocate for “theft” in money.

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Growth in productivity has weakened in high income countries, and are reported to be about 1 % after 2008, while it was 3 % from 1971-2007.

It raises several questions in my mind. 1) Has it really gone down? It goes against the trend. 2) Is it that it hasn’t actually gone down, but that it is not being reflected anymore in income because of infinite supply of certain digital goods? 2) Is it partly because of rising income inequality? 3) Is it because of failing fiat currencies, causing low productivity businesses to still operate and an evergrowing workforce doing non-productive stuff like predicting the next move of a failing currency? 4) A mix of all of the above?

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