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Sometimes I think we deserve an asteroid impact...

I ChatGPTed a list of scams. This list is quite impressive and depressing at the same time. Humanity is full of scams.

1. Holiday gift cards

2. “Breakfast is the most important meal”

3. Diamonds

4. Black friday engineerd hysteria

5. Pink/ blue colors to sell more clothes to parents

6. 8 glasses of water a day - water bottle company backed campaign

7. Recycling - shifting of responsiblity from producers to consumers

8. Low fat driven by sugar industry

9. Mattress companies

10. Fashion seasons

11. Beauty standards

12. Loyalty programs to harvest data

13. College rankings

14. College - added by me

15. Sunscreen inflated skin cancer claims

16. Flouride as means of waste disposal - aluminum industry

17. Plant-based foods - owned by meat conglomorates to hedge bets

18. Streaming services rotating content with “expiring”

19. Psychology of pricing - price anchoring etc…

20. Artificial delays between streaming services show seasons, split seasons etc to draw out subscriptions

21. Manufactured drama - in hollywood, between artists etc…

22. Manufactured news drama

23. Detox products - pseudoscience

24. Supplements

25. Essential oils

26. anti-aging creams

27. Shampoo cycles - overwashing

28. Gendered products - pink tax

29. “Natural” label - legally meaningless

30. Sugar-free / fat-free

31. Bottled water

32. auto dealer addons, already pre-applied highest margins

33. Extended warranties

34. Apple Care

35. Planned obsolescence

36. Credit scores

37. 401k fees

38. Buy now pay later

39. Home staging

40. Smart home add-ons

41. Greenwashing certifications

42. “eco-friendly”

43. Printer ink pricing

44. Phone planned obsolescence

45. Texbook revisions to kill resale market

46. For-profit colleges (I’d say most colleges actually)

47. Carbon offsets

48. Compostable plastics - rarely composted

49. Recycling - rarely done due to costs

50. Evergreen patents on pharma products

51. The entire healthcare system “sick system”

52. Sales tax (I’d say ALL taxes)

53. Paint industry - same paint, different labels

54. Eyewear monopoly and markups

55. Funeral industry one giant scam

56. Fake MSRP in mattress industry

57. Hotel resort fees

58. “Limited runs” in brands to create artificial shortages

59. Pretty much all online marketing manipulation (1 left, 5 other people bought etc….)

60. Charity donations

61. airline fuel surchage

62. academic publishing industry - Elsevier etc, taxpayer funded research paywalled

What else?

Does bitcoin fix these?

The beauty of bitcoin is the simplicity of its design.

There will only ever be 21 million bitcoin.

Blocks come in every ~10 minutes.

The difficulty adjusts every 2,016 blocks.

The block subsidy gets cut in half every 210,000 blocks.

Blockspace is limited.

A transaction must be valid to get included in a block.

In a hyper-financialized and centrally planned global economy bitcoin's simplicity is counterintuitive.

"Monetary systems are complex. It can't be this easy."

Not only CAN money be simple, but it SHOULD be simple. We've been brought up in a counterproductive centralized system and humanity has succeeded in many areas in spite of the central planners.

Imagine what we'll be able to do when the central planners are replaced with a simple, neutral and incorruptible permissionless monetary network. Those who abide by and adapt around bitcoin's simple rule set will be able to coordinate economic activity with orders of magnitude more certainty than they have today.

No more guessing about what the Fed will do, how much debt the Treasury plans on issuing or whether or not capital controls will be turned on like a light switch.

That all goes away under a Bitcoin Standard.

Keep it simple, stupid.