nostr:npub1guh5grefa7vkay4ps6udxg8lrqxg2kgr3qh9n4gduxut64nfxq0q9y6hjy what books are behind you? The Genesis Book, Atlas Shrugged, Extreme Privacy, and what else?

Simplicity is freedom. Duplicity is bondage. Simplicity brings joy and balance. Duplicity brings anxiety and fear. - Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline

Well, looks like I have a few to add to my list. Of this set, I’ve read Fiat Standard. What should be next?

Capital misallocation will receive its just deserts on a Bitcoin standard.

Just got this recently. Haven’t started. How is it?

I keep six honest serving men

(They taught me all I knew);

Their names are What and Why and When

And How and Where and Who.

- R. Kipling

amErICa, LaND Of thE FreE

https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/us-department-of-energy-announced-an-emergency-data-collection-initiative-targeting-us-bitcoin-miners/

I wonder about this. If this is true, why save for the future?

Today, my family and I are spending the day at an amusement park. I couldn’t help but notice there is an inordinate amount of rides and shops closed.

These closings reduced the supply of rides and shops open to serve patrons; the result, longer lines for everyone. Now, we most certainly could have purchased fast passes, or done other things to mitigate the wait on our end, but this misses the point. These days, we see the effects of government allocation of labor capital in all facets of our lives.

The limited supply of human time, a function of the given number of available, and knowledgeable, individuals to do all the required tasks to continue to provide the goods and services individuals need and want, will necessarily cause trade off choices to have to be made. When government is involved it tends to mean you spend more time waiting and less time acting. This destroys the mental and emotional faculties of a society.

We are now, more than any point in my memory, seeing the effects of this misallocation of our most precious resource. An individual’s time.