nobody loves bitcoin more than me but the fact is if nobody invests there's no capital and we are literally back to hunter gathering (tho without any weapons or tools because they are capital)

zaps are great but you can't actually kill an antelope with them

Love Sowell but unfortunately he is wrong. A Classic theoretical mistake by the Chicago school, savings is not bad for the economy. It did not cause the Great Depression.

Young people have always been the useful fool of the government, they believe in politics and align themselves with leftist movements like communism, they think they are radicals but they are really being indoctrinated to gladly pay taxes, isn't that communism?

Women have also become another useful fool of the state through the feminist movement, a totally statist movement that lives off government subsidies.

But if you are a man, over 40 years old and still believe in politics and politicians, then you have a mental deficiency.

Yea I hear you. Necessity is the mother of invention, and that certainly doesn't need to be war. Plenty of other problems in the world that need solutions with or without war

Sorry I guess sentiment wasn't the right word since you already said you were disappointed.

I meant what were their overall economic takes that you disagreed with? Or maybe a better question is how do you see things?

Some examples would be good, or what overall sentiment?

Man reddit is just a joke, a bad joke. It's so captured. AnCap spaces are overrun by goblins misleading the few honest people left there, making sure to FUD them about Bitcoin and about anarchy. Insane. The moderators must be ideologically captured, possibly being paid by the state.

Thank you, this is a very nice summary. I honestly have problems with Holocaust deniers and I'm ready to report them (kind 1984 is here exactly for this reason), but I don't think that they should be silenced, especially not by government, state or other monopoly on violence. I will give it a try.

BTW it is always so funny how Germans and Austrians actually believe how advanced and superior they are. The naivity...

I never said that there was no downside to war. Just that major innovation shifts tend to happen during some sort of conflict, so that war industry and industry aren't in conflict.

My younger son doesn't have data tariff on his phone. Can't use lightning in a local grocery store.

Since they use my (thus custodial) lnbits instance anyway, they also have a mint available.

my son mints echash at home and spend it at the store without internet access.

how that's not a use case?

(there is an alternative with LNURLw but they don't have a device to scan the QR)

Checking the feed of who follows me, so much retarded posts about ecash.

It's a solution for problems that don't exist, shilled by questionable people who seems to be levitated mysteriously to visibility.

Classic red flag of VC and spook funded manipulation.

I literally don't follow anyone who is constantly about it. And those I follow who talk about it say it's unstable and not commercially useful, and have been rugged or hadfunds disappear.

The levitation won't continue when everyone finally realises it'sascm.

We are at the beginning of a crisis of confidence in the global credit collateral #dollar and #USTs. In the coming weeks we will see whether #Bitcoin and #Gold will hold up as safe havens.

For the first time since FDR, Democrats are arguing for limits on governmental power.

Yet another win that Trump can take credit for.

It's actually not different as military tech advances drive infrastructure investment. The Autobahn, for instance, was invented to move tanks. The Romans built sturdy roads and bridges, and invented logistics, to move their armies faster. AI, satellite, and drone tech is advancing so quickly because of the Ukraine war. A lot of medical advancement comes from battlefield hospitals.

And etc. Even a lot of seemingly peaceful advancement, like Bitcoin and Nostr, are effectively a form of libertarian insurrection or covert guerilla warfare. Peacetime doesn't lead to invention or infrastructure improvements, it leads to widespread sloth, atrophy, and decadence.

That's where the "hard times make strong men" meme comes from. Those who fight, build. There are only the quick and the dead.