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(value that they are willing to pay you for!)

The "follow your dream" message needs some work.

"Follow your passion ... and if you expect to get paid for what you do, find a way to provide value to other people."

You probably know, but good string instruments are an asset that some people use to preserve wealth, which really sucks for the musicians. Most of us get priced out of the market.

People really do not realize that prices going up is the same as their dollars being worth less.

I recently overheard a young musician saying that thanks to inflation her flute is now more valuable than it was a few years ago

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Looking good!

Yay! this is wonderful

I like them both, but the melting ice cream in an earlier reply made me think: the image of a dollar bill (or a twenty) melting or disintegrating would be probably be particularly effective.

Cashu makes some sense to me, but your post is pretty much how I receive almost all the tech-y notes on Nostr. FWIW, my strategy in the face of new stuff like this is to listen to a lot of folks talking about it until something starts to click.

Not sure this will help, but the friend who once said to me, "you know that whiny thing you do?" is one of my most beloved

Zettelkasten is awesome. I don't quite follow the guidelines that I read about in the Ahrens book, but the idea of linked notes allowing cross-pollination of ideas stuck with me.

Are you using Obsidian?

I love this!

#POWparenting

Thank you!

thank you! will check it out

#asknostr

I need to get some publicity pics photoshopped into a different background and I want to stay away from the big tech AI tools.

Any suggestions?

(I'm sure there's a way to actually photoshop, but I'd need to learn to match the lighting etc...)

#AI

I don't think they realize how much they're revealing when they say shit like this.

My guess is that we'd be hard-pressed to find a society (now or in the past) in which people aren't spending a pretty big proportion of time/energy/resources on their food. I don't see that itself as a problem.

Pre-orange pilling it was clear to me that ag subsidies got Americans in particular used to food that is cheap, abundant, and low-quality. As a result, other household budget decisions tended to settle around that lower grocery bill and we got used to cheap food (well, "cheap" food but very expensive in the long term due to the disruptions of the subsidies and the enormous extraneous costs to us in terms of sovereignty and culture).

I haven't fully thought this through relative to what I've learned recently about fiat currencies and the disaster that is the Fed, but I can certainly imagine a healthy dynamic society in which people are spending considerably less on

govt bureaucracy

housing

insurance

"health" care

schooling

and, proportionally, more on food.

You're saying that food getting more expensive is in itself a problem (and I agree) but I guess what I'm saying is that it's been artificially cheap to the great detriment of almost everyone.

ok, I don't like Twitter but it's good for some very satisifying moments!

It's so pathetic that the ECB feels the need to explicitly go after Bitcoin. Makes it clear that 1) they see it as competition and 2) they're nervous.

I think that food is generally been a high percentage of income in society until housing and other expenses go crazy. I could be wrong, but it would be interesting to look at pre-1913 levels.

Even you look at the proportion of time that most historical societies (around the globe) spend on food, it's probably quite high even when food is abundant.

Industrialized food changes that, and not for the better

But we're in agreement that sudden change now - when most people are struggling to keep a roof over their heads - is terrible.