Love the positivity and message. What meagre life savings I have mustered are in Bitcoin, too—beyond my IRA retirement investments. Easiest to recall for myself that this isn’t the value I need to care about—it’s the one 10 or 20 or 50 years down the line to borrow against for a home or actual retirement.
Just got done with Dave Walker’s “America in 2040: Still a Superpower?” A really good and authoritative read on America’s fiscal future, oversight challenges, and an inside perspective on reform efforts.
Below is a link to the author’s webpage for the book.
A few takeaways:
- Durably reforming and improving fiscal policy (and governance, generally) requires careful needle-threading and broad-based popular support built on common understanding in good faith;
- When presented with the actual problem sets (including in fiscal terms), Americans are not only willing, but eager to undertake hardship to achieve sound governance and a better future; and
- The existing ‘tools’ to course correct from within the oversight, Congressional, and civil service have become tangled up in political quagmire such that solving through small d democratic or small r republican methods individually seems unlikely—a combined approach seems necessary.
Curious what the Nostr community thinks:
What is one principle or value you think America promises that it doesn’t fulfill (or fulfill well), and why? What’s important about that to you? How do you think we can or should recover that?
That was Scotty beaming up a member of the away team.
Fair enough! To what would you (anybody here) attribute this? Inflation, greed, ‘brand-like’ dining price hike or something else?
Fair. But also… that looks like fresh squeezed Valencian Oranges 😍 And that is actually a pretty penny (of value), on the flip side.
Thanks, nostr:nprofile1qqsqj0csanrwjrzprcpyaut97545s44y2f8z2ecd0r6y604v28dgzpcpz4mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduhsz8thwden5te0dehhxarj9e3xjarrda5kuetj9eek7cmfv9kz7p2pnfv! Always good to continue the conversation. (Be curious!)
Hello! Good to be here—definitely out of my element in technical terms, but I’m all for finding ways to fix the institutions and make them work the way we mean for them to. Here to learn (and share what I think I know). One thing I think is that sound money is a core base layer for an effective democratic republic. And since Bitcoin does that—I’m in!
Some of us are late to the sound money game—but realizing what that can mean for accountability, transparency, and stewardship.
Point taken, yet also—here I am.
Hello, world.