"Get to the Beam."

- Paramahansa Yogananda

#introductions

I've been using X for less than 2 years, and struggling with impressions. I've been told to check it out over here, so here I am.

I am 5+ years carnivore.

Founder of Eat Meat NZ.

I have a website full of free resources including a Getting Started guide for World Carnivore Month. The link is in my profile.

My family is asking me if it’s too late to buy Bitcoin.

What would you say?

The Purpose of Bitcoin

The purpose of bitcoin is not a new form of money, nor a new economic system—but a new form of life.

It is a life that is removed from the paranoia and schizophrenia of a system of power and control in which one can never know their real standing, where all may be labeled an enemy of the state and eliminated without notice or access to the law. It is a system of politics that we call fiat, and today in ensnares all people everywhere around the entire globe and enslaves all towards its destructive and evil cause. Today we all exist within this system where the right to economic, political, and spiritual activity may be eliminated at anytime under emergency decrees of any state. The purpose of Bitcoin is to liberate all beings everywhere from this system abuse and slavery forever.

The purpose of Bitcoin is to allow for all peoples everywhere, from now unto eternity, to return to a private life that is separated from the fiat state and reserve for themselves alone. It is a life which is imbued with purpose and meaning in the deepest sense of the words, for it allows all beings to now choose what forms of life they will have, and how they will choose to live them without that becoming an objective of the politics of the fiat states. This is very idea of what freedom means, and how we choose to live will no longer be an object of any fiat politics any longer. No longer will we be used for the rape and exploitation of their system of endless wars, infinite surveillance, and endemic nihilistic abuse to serve its own sadistic ends.

This refusal to be part of the fiat system, this choice for the freedom and purpose of Bitcoin will now raise itself to the task of The Political that is above any fiat state politics, and will become the method by which all peoples everywhere and forever will liberate themselves from the shackles and yoke of fiat slavery. It is the banishment of the last vestiges of slavery through the promise of a form of wealth and property that will no longer be predicated upon the systematic organization of violence under the fiat state, and the barbarism that it always must be. Bitcoin is our declaration of freedom against the fiat system, and our decision to no longer participate in it any longer.

For what does it mean when all beings everywhere may now be free from the economic slavery from fiat, not just now, but forever? What happens when beings unify themselves under the banner of economic and political peace, and choose to wage an everlasting war against the violence and barbarism of fiat slavery, not just for ourselves, but for the future as well? What becomes of the story of humanity and the story of history when this decision is made by individual free beings to no longer participate in the collectivist slavery that is fiat and the horrors it demands? Bitcoin is the premonition of the overturning of the rot and nihilism of fiat slavery that has hollowed out the world, and rescues all of us for a rejuvenation towards a life of purpose and meaning that we create together through the rejection of fiat, and what that means for the world, and the purpose that offers to each of us.

The purpose of Bitcoin is to offer each of us a return to honor, dignity, and a meaningful life in knowing there are things more valuable than material goods, and that the energy of the future will demand from all of us forever its own meaningful securing of itself for its own future. This is now possible and promised with the digital property law called Bitcoin and the digital oath that it is to itself. It is a record, a ledger of the truth of this history and what the real hidden value of wealth is when it can no longer be controlled by any single being, institution, or state any longer. Bitcoin is the proof of this value, and the purpose of people from all around the world when they choose to create a new form of property and law together that is beyond the power of any fiat state to destroy. It is the overturning of the authority of the state, for the truth of nature, and what that means for all beings in our world today, and into the future.

We hodl theses truths to be self-evident that all beings are created equally and that they are endowed by the very nature of the universe to use the power of cryptography to protect themselves when no others can. That each being’s property, their happiness, and their lives may be protected through the use of these techniques, and that all peoples should be allowed the understanding of what it means to have access to this kind of power, protection, and dignity that no fiat state can provide. Through these means and ends, Bitcoiners everywhere have choose to put their wealth in Bitcoin and declared their own economic and political independence from the fiat systems of slavery that seek to keep them in bondage and oppression. Together, Bitcoin offers each of us a new purpose from which we may save the world from the slavery of fiat, and liberate ourselves, our families, and all of posterity for a more fitting and judicious form of life for all beings, forever.

A lot of people look down on blue collar work, which I think is misguided. Especially for skilled blue collar work (and most type of work does benefit from skill/experience).

Basically, there’s a popular notion that it’s objectively better to be a CEO than a plumber, or an engineer than a barber, and that’s pretty off base. So it’s not that they criticize blue collar work in any overt way; it’s that they assume that that people in “lower” jobs would all want to be in “higher” roles if they had the choice. A technician would want to be an engineer. A janitor would want to be a CEO.

There are a lot of studies on job happiness and one of the most consistent correlations is that people are happier when they get more immediate feedback. Like if you cut people’s hair or fix mechanical issues or wire up electronic boxes, you often resolve things in minutes, hours, days, or weeks depending the specific task, and with progress along the way, so you get that quick feedback loop where you see the positive results of your work quickly and tangibly. Nothing lingers, unclear and vague.

And for those jobs, often when you’re outside of work hours, you’re truly out. You don’t have to think about it. You can fully devote your focus elsewhere. There’s not some major thing hanging over your head, other than sometimes financial stress or indirect things.

Now, obviously jobs with more complexity and compensation and scale give people other benefits. More material comfort and safety, more power to impact the world at scale, more public prestige, etc. and for some people that’s important for happiness, and for others it is not. And the cost is that it’s generally highly competitive, rarely if ever turns off, and usually comes with much slower and more vague feedback loops in terms of seeing or feeling whether your work is making things better or not.

There was a time in my life where wiring up electronic boxes was really satisfying. Each project had a practical purpose but then also was kind of an artform since I wanted it to look neat for aesthetic and maintainability purposes. I would work on these things like a bonsai enthusiast would sculpt bonsai. And then eventually I would design larger systems and have technicians wire them instead, but for some of the foundational starting points I’d still set up the initial core pieces to get it started right. I wasn’t thrilled when I realistically had to give that up when I moved into management for a while.

I have a housekeeper clean my house every couple weeks. She’s a true pro; she used to clean high-end hotels for years and now works for herself cleaning houses. When we travel, she can let herself in and clean our place, since we trust her.

She doesn’t speak much English, but her daughter does, and that daughter recently graduated college.

Notably, she consistently sings while she cleans. She could listen to music or podcasts but doesn’t. She just sings every time she cleans. I can tell she’s generally in a state of flow while cleaning. She’s good at what she does, and it’s kind of a meditative experience involving repetition but also experience to do it properly and efficiently and then a satisfying conclusion of leaving things better than how they were found. Turning chaos to order.

Last year she was hit by a truck while driving, and had to be out of work for a few months to recover. When she came back, we just back-paid her the normal rate for those few months as though she cleaned on schedule, so she wouldn’t have any income gap from us. Full pay despite a work gap. She was shocked when we did that. We weren’t sure her financial situation (I assume it’s pretty good actually based on her rate), but basically we just treated the situation as though she were salaried with benefits even though she works on a per-job basis. Because skilled, trustworthy, and happy people are hard to come by and worth helping and maintaining connections with.

If I were to guess, I honestly think she is a happier person than I am on a day to day basis. It’s not that I’m unhappy; it’s that I think whatever percentage I might be on the subjective mood scale, she is visibly higher. I experience a state of flow in my work, and my type of work gives me a more frequent state of flow than other work I could do, but I think her work gives her an even higher ratio of flow.

Anyway, my point is that optionality is important. While it’s true that some jobs suck and some jobs are awesome, and financial security matters a lot, for the most part it’s more about how suited you are for a particular type of work at a particular phase in your life. And you’re not defined by your work; it’s just one facet of who you are among several facets.

Find what gives you a good state of flow, pays your bills, lets you save a surplus, and lets you express yourself in one way or another.