Only someone with humility would see this. To be relatively big in a network they don’t control rather than totally dominant in a smaller network they do control, is a nonstarter for many of them.

We would need the equivalent of Marcus Aurelius as a social media CEO to get this.

Oh yeah - that bread crumb is clearly in there. Good find.

# There are no special people.

That is to say there are no people that have special rights. There are only people that engage in special pleading.

##### You might be engaging in that fallacy right now.

Osho on the need for meritocracy:

"The profession of the politician is the only profession which needs no qualification. Even if you want to be a plumber, some kind of qualification is needed. Some training in plumbing, some certificates, but if you want to be the president of America no certificate is needed.

It seems strange, plumbing is more important than the president of America. Democracy is not succeeding, it has failed. It was better than its predecessors, but now we have to find a new alternative because democracy has failed. It has not been of any help. The future belongs to meritocracy."

#oshostr

And Nostr … idk either man.

Feels like a Bitcoin church here.

It lacks the critics, nocoiners & etc.. diversity in type of people who use other social channels.

Too much technical jargon, complexity & tooling for normies to ever want to bother with this, when they can just mindlessly scroll on TikTok, Insta or some other bs centralized platform.

A killer nostr client that could potentially replace Twitter, looks very far away.

What a crisis! …Perhaps I should just look less on my phone 😟

I’m just gone leave this here #catstr #grownstr #plebchain #cute #cat #nostr

It's kind of a verbal meme, but one of my favorite questions is, "what radicalized you?" Since I'm someone who appeals to moderates with a tempered but purposeful element of anti-establishment fire, it's kind of a notable question.

My first thought is, "well let me tell you about my childhood and why I'm not a huge fan of the state."

My second thought is, "let's talk about the global financial crisis."

My third thought is, "look at the 2016 time period where U.S. fiscal deficits started to wonkishly deviate from unemployment.

My fourth thought, regarding the Current Thing, because nobody wants to go back that far, is, "they replaced a beautiful blue bird with an X and said it would be half of the global financial system."

And that made me angry.

Would you continue to use Bitcoin if the country where you live make it illegal?

Spoiler : it will happen ⚡💀