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No one remembers who they are anymore now that Facebook is dead.

At first learning about bitcoin feels as if your brain gets rewired. New pathways formed and connections made.

Most of what you learn about it, is contrary to what you believe to be true at first. It’s fascinating. Most people don’t like their beliefs to be challenged or spend time thinking about how money works, however. Their daily lives just continue.

We can say hfsp: if you don’t get it, i don’t have the time to explain it to you. Right? But maybe that is the key; maybe we do too much explaining and too little just using it: using the best form of money ever invented: #bitcoin. GN 🌝

Twitter will die as every other social network has. Trends come and go. Decentralized freedom of expression and decentralized freedom of transacting value stay forever because they are at the core of being a free human.

21 days until general elections in Austria. The namegiver of Austrian economics. You'd might think they are big on bitcoin. Just for fun, I looked at the programs of the 5 biggest parties and counted how often they mention bitcoin: zero times.

But the word freedom is mentioned in total 190 times. Politics, charade you are. We are still so early. #bitcoin

Fear is the mind-killer. Nothing to fear, it's right on point. Thanks for your graphs!

Replying to Avatar Rune Østgård

The laws of economics dictate that

- what you tax, you get less of

- what you subsidize, you get more of

Experience and logics tell us that people get fewer children in urban areas than in the countryside.

Furthermore, families are the only institutions that produce children.

Do you agree with me so far?

Grok estimates that the EU's average fertility rate in 1960 was approximately 2.59 births per woman.

The EU’s average fertility rate is now 1.46

This is a reduction of 77 per cent.

Grok estimates that the public sector's spending as a share of GDP for the five major EU economies between 1960 and 2022 likely has grown by at least 50% to 100%.

By other words, in this period we have seen a shift of economic wealth from the private sector to the public sector comparable to the average reduction in the birth rates.

My best guess is that it's here we find the main explanation.

Shifting of wealth from the private to the public sector is shifting of wealth from those who produce kids to institutions which produce bureaucracies.

What you tax (people), you get less of.

What you subsidize (public sector), you get more of.

And bureaucracies typically grow the most in urban areas, where people traditionally prefer to have fewer children than in the countryside.

In conclusion, less production of kids is a result of the growth of the public sector, which mainly consists of institutions in urban areas that produce bureaucracies instead of kids.

A socialist society is parasitic of nature, and the parasite in the end always runs out of hosts.

Let's have a look at the fertility rates of Poland, Hungary and Greece, all have a subsidy on birth/children. According to your logic, subsidy = more children. Did we see an increase?

Poland: no

Hungary: yes

Greece: no

Is it therefore that simple? No. Declining fertility rates has many reasons. Affordability and cost of living is a major factor and we'll agree on the reasons why costs of living has risen. Back in the day kids were an asset, they could work on the fields. Now having more kids than necessary becomes a financial burden. Advanced medical abilities creates an option to have less kids because most of them become adults. Why would you want to have more than you need/want? There is simply no need.

Also, you don't need a family to have a kid, it's not complicated

GM #nostr.

Enjoy this beautiful day and stack sats 🧡 #bitcoin

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Just finished listening to this. Loved most of you and hodl's viewpoints . Thanks for bringing your voice and these topics into the #bitcoin space. A lot to think about 💪

But damn, Erik is bitter. Although getting a lot right, he also got a lot of stuff (factually) wrong. Unnecessarily confrontational statements and doesn't spread a message that appeals to a regular person. By doing that, he does what he criticizes others; sticking your head in the sand and be happy in your little echo-chamber.

Replying to Avatar Trey Walsh

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Just finished listening to this. Loved most of you and hodl's viewpoints . Thanks for bringing your voice and these topics into the #bitcoin space. A lot to think about 💪

But damn, Erik is bitter. Although getting a lot right, he also got a lot of stuff (factually) wrong. Unnecessarily confrontational statements and doesn't spread a message that appeals to a regular person. By doing that, he does what he criticizes others; sticking your head in the sand and be happy in your little echo-chamber.

GM / Goeiemorgen / Guten Morgen #nostr

#bitcoin 🧡

I’d say for a lot of people, they never ask the question “what is money”. Therefore unable to see the real reasons and just put their faith in another government.