All bitcoiners talk about opportunity cost, eating noodles and keeping your old underwear to stack more. I did this. I'm seven years in now and stacked as hard as I possibly could, left nothing on the table. But recently I've hit a limit. It feels like that scarcity mindset stage has reached it's useful conclusion. I'll still sweep excess into corn but the absolute focus on stacking is done for me. The longer you stack the less difference it makes and this alters your priorities. Life has opportunity cost too, no matter how much corn you end up with, you can't go back in time with it. I'm starting to spend on what I value not just what I need. I think once you've done the work and made the sacrifices for your stack, think hard about what comes next.

I started making a conscious effort to be nicer a few years ago and my life greatly improved.

My self talk used to be extremely negative because my parents spoke that way to me as a child.

I interrupted that pattern by treating myself the way I treat my children. With kindness, patience and understanding.

Ask yourself, if someone talked to your loved one the way you talk to yourself would you be ok with it?

If the answer is no it’s likely time to address it.

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took my first (non-farming) job at a pizza restaurant, back of house, for $4 per hour, under the table, no tips.

that was the correct price for my unskilled labor at the time. because that restaurant owner took a risk to bring me on underaged & far below minimum wage, I was fortunate enough to get my first real work experience & learn discipline, responsibility, punctuality, food service, and many invaluable social lessons early on.

by raising minimum wages in perpetuity states are just pricing out all labor participants whose work is actually valued at less than the state mandated rate on a free market. raising minum wage doesn’t magically allow an employer to afford now more expensive though less productive workers.

value yourself fairly & work hard at learning salable skills & growing & even with inflation & insane taxes you will be able to find productive work in this country & get a leg up.

One of the best things you can do as an employer today is offer to pay people in #Bitcoin. As an employee you should be asking for this or using direct deposit tools like strike to receive & save a percentage of your paycheck in #Bitcoin.

“Inflation provides provides illegitimate gains. Its alleged benefits are not really different from the benefits of robbery and fraud.

Many princes blushed when they were caught debasing the currency of the country. But modern presidents, prime ministers, and chancellors can keep a straight face and justify inflation with the alleged need to stabilize the price level and to finance growth.

There is a solid historical record documenting how governments have abused the trust that the citizens put into them.

There was in fact, hardly a dynasty that did not in this way abuse its monopoly of coinage. Ancient Greeks and Romans, medieval princes, dukes and emperors, as well as democratic parliaments have recklessly debased the coins of their country.”

[or as Satoshi put it, "The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust."]

“Moral hazard is implied in the very existence of paper money because its producer can bail out virtually anybody.

Central planning and hyperinflation is what the future holds for an economy under paper money. The only third way is to abolish paper money altogether and to return to a sound monetary order”

Fiat inflation is what happens when people increase the money supply by fraud, imposition, and breach of contract. Thus it leaves a characteristic cultural and spiritual stain on human society.

Inflation spurs the growth of central governments. It allows these governments to grow larger than they could become in a free society. And it allows them to monopolize governmental functions to an extent that would not occur under a natural production of money. The printing press allows the government to tap the property of its people without having obtained their consent.

The old way for ordinary citizens to make savings was the accumulation of cash. Under fiat inflation this strategy is suicidal - Fiat inflation is a juggernaut of social, economic, cultural, and spiritual destruction.”

#Bitcoin: Defund parasites.

“In no period of human history, has paper money spontaneously emerged on the free market. The only sure way to bring paper notes into circulation was to impose them on the citizenry.

Historically, private coinage came first and only later did governments take over. It carries the risk of total and permanent value annihilation.

In a truly free market, paper could not withstand the competition of commodity monies. The more farsighted and prudent market participants would get rid of their paper money first, and the others would follow in due course

Inflation is that part of the money supply that comes into being because of the invasion of private property rights. As in the case of debasement, banknotes have been falsified both by ordinary criminals and by the “guardians” themselves, as in 1781 when the Bank of Amsterdam started counterfeiting its own banknotes.

Economic science has put us in a position to understand that competitive coinage is an even better way of preserving the trustworthiness of coins. There is no economic reason not to allow every private citizen to enter the minting business and to offer his own coins.

As long as the citizens are free to produce and use the best money available, sound money prevails, whereas debased money and fractional reserves lead a fringe existence".

- J.G.Hülsmann

#Bitcoin > #CounterfeitMoney

The #Euro🇪🇺 fiatshitcoin has now lost over 40% of its buying power since creation in 2000, and the debasement is accelerating.

The @ecb is a criminal cartel. No matter how harder you swim, they constantly pull you back in place.

They control the money supply, counterfeiting new currency at an alarming rate to feed their own self-interests. They make it hard for people to retain the fruits of their labor, silently stealing their savings.

The @ecb is a parasite on European economies. Unelected vampires, sucking the lifeblood out of the productive - and they're not going to stop until they're defunded.

They need to be stopped. But how do you stop a criminal cartel? It's not easy. They're powerful, and have a lot of resources.

But we can't give up. We need to save in something they can't steal anymore, that is how we will slowly starve them.

We have to fight for our future, and we have to win.

#Bitcoin is the only solution I see at this point. Everything else has failed. Including "democracy".