Yeah I am 30 mins over right now lol! Got excited by a topic and wanted to continue... so tonight probabaly 2 hours! If I fill that with calming type activities I should be OK. If not read something.
You're welcome! Don't worry they are never too serious 😂
Looking for a funny and sometimes enlightening podcast? I recommend Matt and Shanes Secret Podcast... beware its very silly...
#silly #comedy #podcast #grownostr #shanegillis
Thanks Rhett clued me in on a few things, great video!
Thanks Rhett clued me in on a few things, great video! It may be that NOSTR can help me to create an app idea I have had for a few years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIccRIEr2gQ
nostr:npub17jhjuaeg4efahdkms9he3hvlcnvrdgt4ka4c2txevd0n479j574quam3nk
#grownostr #learning #decemtralized #newapps #creativity
Turns out it was the Romans who stopped the tradition (inherited from near east ie Mesopotamia) of regular debt cancellation and started to require debts to always be in play so to speak. Even if you got sick or crops failed. This allowed the opportunity for Oligarchies to form and these groups became more powerful than governments. In this case they eventually took over society and in the case of the Romans this was through the Senate.
Guess which great power in modern times based their political and debt system on The Romans? USA. Guess what is commonly known to control US systems of govt? Lobby Groups. Who are the Lobby Groups? Large Corporations aka Oligarchs.
Seems to be a connection there. Is regular debt jubilee an option for us in modern times? How would it work?
I'm basing the above on Author, historian and Economist Michael Hudson who breaks down the above insights in this podcast...
https://youtu.be/XyybzneS0To?t=3134
#history #economics #bitcoin #debt #learn #grownostr #interesting #facts #coolstuff #nerds
Michael Hudson (Economist, historian and author) says Oligarchies were prevented from forming in Ancient Mesopotamian societies by cancelling the debt every time a new king began a new reign. In other words 'regular debt jubilees'...
Interesting...
"And from the very beginning, my main concern for my entire working life has been to deal with the problems caused by debt. And I wanted to study debt cancellations in antiquity. And how did society create money? How did it deal with the problems that debt created? So, we invited the leading experts of Sumur, old Babylonia, new Babylonia, Egypt, the surrounding regions. And basically, an oligarchy was prevented from developing because you had the rulers, they were called divine kingship at that time. Every Babylonian ruler did what every Sumerian ruler did – when they took the throne, they would cancel all personal debts and agrarian debts to start with a clean slate."
#economics #bitcoin #history #ancient #finance #debt #grownostr #philosophy
Michael Hudson (economist and author) on how democracies always turn into oligarchies and how corruption in senate works ... always interesting to get insights into exactly how this sort of thing works...
"Democracies, as Aristotle said, turn into oligarchies. And the oligarchs, turn over. And Aristotle said, everybody calls themselves a democracy, but in reality they're oligarchies, because some people get richer and richer, and they use their money to buy control of the political process. And in America, of course, the Supreme Court's 2010 ruling that Citizens United, put essentially political positions up for grabs. And if you want to be head of a House or a Senate economic committee, the head of the committee has to agree to pay a few $100,000 to the Democratic Party, and I assume that Republican Party leadership, so that they can buy the position. So, the positions in a democracy are actually sold to the oligarchy, which also controls the Supreme Court.
Hold on. Can you elaborate on that payment scheme? On what? Well, you said that in order to be the head of a committee, you have to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars? Yes. Nancy Pelosi said that the way they decide who to put the head of every committee was the Congress people will say, “I want to join this committee or that committee.” And to be the head, you have to raise a given amount of money from your campaign contributors. So, the congressman or woman who can raise the highest amount of money from their campaign contributors gets to be head of the committee.Well, imagine what politician are the real estate interests, the banking interests, and the 1% going to give their money to – they’re going to give the money to the people who represent their interests. They're going to get a puppet, someone like President Biden. Who basically is the senator from the credit card company state, Delaware – which is where most American corporations are incorporated because of their pro-corporate special privileges that they that they give."
https://youtu.be/XyybzneS0To?t=2271
#economics #grownostr #oligarchy #democracy #biden #plato #history #corruption #bitcoin
What I think when I hear Ben McKenzie say he has an Economic Degree...
"So, the common denominator of what I've been doing is that I think academic economics is on the wrong track. As soon as I’d begun to teach international trade theory at the New School in 1969, I found everything that it said was wrong."
Michael Hudson in https://youtu.be/XyybzneS0To?t=85
#bitcoin #benmckenzie #grownostr #finance #corruption #history
In Thailand the year is actually 2566 not 2023. They start their count from the date the Buddha passed away and reached Nirvana.
Interesting...
#travel
#Thailand
#grownostr
#nomad
#buddha
In some mustical belief systems (eg yoga), the lotus flower represents the top two chakras in a human body which is though to map to the pineal gland. You can see these all over Thailand in day to day life.
#travel
#nomad
#psychedelics
#meditation
#buddhism
#politics
#meme
#aoc
#antiwoke
#coffeechain
#travel
#nomad
#grownostr
#thailand
“The Collapse of Antiquity.” Hudson challenges the traditional beliefs about the fall of the Roman Empire, arguing that it was caused by a financial crisis brought on by excessive debt, wealth inequality, and the concentration of economic power. Hudson draws parallels to modern-day economies and highlights the dangers of financialization and wealth concentration.
https://theanalysis.news/part-2-debt-and-the-collapse-of-antiquity-michael-hudson/
#debt #finance #bitcoin #grownostr #history #romanempire #Bible #religion
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Oligarchs have always had more power in society but we are of course never told that. Have to learn that through life experience. It will be interesting to see where #btc and #grownostr will lead the dissidents.
You do hear some people in the BTC community use it this way but I see the confusion.
Hard and physical aren't the same thing. Hard meaning it's difficult to create more of them. In BTC that means proof of work (electricity spent to mine btc) and max 21 million. See the difference?
"Every nation, like every individual, has a darker side and a lighter side. The easiest thing for a politician to do is to appeal to our fear, our greed, our hatred"
Robert Kennedy Jr - 2023
#rfkjr #Biden #politics #kennedy #jfk #philosophy #navigate #grownostr
I try to stop being on screens 3 hours before I plan on sleeping. Otherwise I cant sleep. I just read physical books or stretch or meditate. Seems to be working. My sleep muuuuch better!