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Hard money makes good men. Bitcoin talks and bullshit walks. Bitcoiner, farmer, teacher, surfer. Bitcoin is our hope to finally be free and to see humanity shake off the old weights of history and civilization. Self sovereignty and privacy are the fundamental rights built on top of the right to defend them. Let's build that better future and unleash the true potential of mankind. Nostr since early 2023

We didn't discover it. We observed it and learned how to preserve it, then how to move it, then how to create it.

Like any source of energy.

I hope so.

When she really pumps, maybe us bitcoiners can buy a country somewhere.

Replying to Avatar Luxas

It boggles my mind how we are all equal-ish in one thing (beyond the obvious of being human). That is, most of us are all given the most valuable thing in this life, even more valuable than #Bitcoin

Time.

This invaluable resource is with us for an average of 70yrs. And some how, the mass populace have been deceived to denigrate its immense importance.

A lie perpetuated through the ages to trade your time to be a wage slave, in order to allow someone else to replace their labor with your labor, and enrich themselves with your time. As a species, we could have turned this reality into something amazing. Instead, we trade these ficticious digits of value for an artificial sense of self-worth through consumerism.

I was guilty of this for years. Dreaming of that luxury home, car, watch, etc. Wanting to be able to flex, to people who don't even care. All the while losing my most valuable net worth and replacing it with a house built on sand.

A transformation within myself has occurred, but not overnight. More akin to the journey of a caterpillar entering a chrysalis phase before the struggle of learning how to fly. But once those wings stabilize, the wind giving lift, it's freedom of movement.

This very note is costing me the most precious thing I own. Will it be worth it? I don't know. But I hope it will inspire others to not feel like they too must be compelled to compete in the rat race. Or, continue with the false sense of having said time to do things "tomorrow".

Time's scarcity is compounded further as it's not guaranteed. Stop putting things off today, for a tomorrow that may never come. Take the break from the fiat mines to be with loved ones. Tell the boss who's screaming orders from the top bass and raping your asset of time to GFY.

Do the thing you love, even if it doesn't make you wealthy in the drowsy, sunken eyes of an NPC. Be victorious in carving out your day as you see fit, even in the face of criticism from the burned out, miserable automatons who were duped by the hustle culture. Reclaim your independence and stack seconds like you stack sats.

Exit the matrix and fuck the system.

You write good notes.

I feel it because I grew up in the 80s and 90s

Replying to Avatar Luxas

Debated with a normie friend. It's sad how misguided they can be. He's fallen into the same trap set by the media, in which all crypto is a scam, and by association so too #Bitcoin

But in this instance, we were discussing how things cost more today and why. He claimed things cost more today, then for example in the 70s, not because of enshitification through "planned obsolescence" or greed, but due to increased technological innovations and lack of a labor force. I replied with the following:

"You'll want to read up on the debasement of currency and how that has had direct implications associated with more dollars per item as a result.

The book outlined in this link is a great read and this article briefly describes the history of it, at least in the context of the US, but such debasement isn't limited to only one country. We've seen it in almost all (remember the trillion dollar note that Zimbabwe once had?). Things didn't cost more in Zimbabwe, as a rudimentary example, because of advancement in technology, labor, etc. Things cost more in that poor country because of continual lowering of purchasing power.

https://mises.org/power-market/how-bad-currency-debasement-dollar-and-there-anything-we-can-do-about-it

People in Western countries are simply less observably aware of the negative effects of it. It's mostly been a silent assault, like a thief in the night. Although, the past few years sure has opened the eyes to some, as literally all commodities cost more. Despite the ridiculous claim that the current state of affairs is still a knock-on from the pandemic, but in no way associated to the printing of trillions to continue inflating the debt..."

I am trying to stay hopeful that we can still get through to these people and show them the wool pulled over their eyes.

Had a conversation with a colleague the other day and his belief was that inflation comes from corporations raising prices.

I think this is the common misconception for many, but of course those left leaning.