Have you seen Five Guys mortgage and fries?
Bitcoin will always seem expensive because the price will always be near an all time high, but it will simultaneously always be undervalued, which is why the price is increasing.
Most people cannot grasp this perspective and it will seem like a paradox to them and cause much frustration.
Another eternal frustration is people only having x when they could have had 10x if only they acted differently, not realising that in just a few years their x will be valued at 10x. They can make up for past mistakes with frugality plus a little time. Awakening is the goal and it's effortless after that.
The Bitcoin era will have its own unique flavour of Monarchy. Monarchs, or perhaps better described as anarchs, with a kingdom as large and complex as the competency Nature granted them allows; perhaps a family farmstead, perhaps a town. Let ten thousand Caesars bloom.
People's politics tend to justify their advantages or disadvantages. They have to paint winners as "evil" or "unfair" in some way to justify their attacks or attempts to steal what they're incapable of getting otherwise.
Bruce Lee also said, from the biography "Fighting Spirit"
WILL POWER:
Recognising that the power of will is the supreme court over all other departments of my mind, I will exercise it daily, when I need the urge to action for any purpose; and I will form HABIT designed to bring the power of my will into action at least once daily.
EMOTION:
Realising that my emotions are both POSITIVE and negative I will form daily HABITS which will encourage the development of the POSITIVE EMOTIONS, and aid me in converting the negative emotions into some form of useful action.
REASON:
Recognising that both my positive & negative emotions may be dangerous if they are not controlled and guided to desirable ends, I will submit all my desires, aims and purposes to my faculties of reason, and I will be guided by it in giving expression to these.
IMAGINATION:
Recognising the need for sound PLANS and IDEAS for the attainment of my desires, I will develop my imagination by calling upon it daily for help in the formation of my plans.
MEMORY:
Recognising the value of an alert memory, I will encourage mine to become alert by taking care to impress it clearly with all thoughts I wish to recall, and by associating those thoughts with related subjects which I may call to mind frequently.
SUBCONSCIOUS MIND:
Recognising the influence of my subconscious mind over my power of will, I shall take care to submit to it a clear and definite picture of my PURPOSE in life and all minor purposes leading to it, and keep this picture CONSTANTLY BEFORE my subconscious mind.
CONSCIENCE:
Recognising that my emotions often err in their over-enthusiasm... I will encourage my conscience to guide me as to what is right & what is wrong, but I will never set aside the verdicts it renders, no matter what may be the cost of carrying them out.
Would you describe Bitcoin as a force of Nature, and in accord with all of these nine principles?
My feeling is that Bitcoin acts as this foundation for a pagan-like enforcement of Nature's rules of thumb. That it will breakdown over-centralised systems that grew by cutting organic, natural bonds and processes and replacing them with the central entity's synthetic, controlled version.
Bitcoin returns us to nature though in an enhanced manner, like the ideas behind the serene perfection of a Greek sculpture, it enables it's masons to embrace Nature and yet provides the focussed impulse to go beyond her.
Bitcoin is mammoth blubber
ETH is supermarket bread
Welcome aboard and nice to have you here!
I bought my mother a copy of your book that she's thoroughly enjoying and putting to use
There is another danger of Bitcoin touched on here, that is, once the opportunity cost is fully realised and internalised it can lead to paralysis and inaction.
Why buy a car when it could be a Porsche in a few years, a Ferrari in another few, a house in another few, a mansion in another few. What is the opportunity cost of a child or two over eighteen years measured in Bitcoin.
Utilitarianism like this turns you into a predictable slave of the spreadsheet. People follow incentives but the pressure of this incentive threatens becoming a productivity drone, lacking vitality and that unpredictable vigour of Nature.
Bitcoin can be weilded as anextraordinarily empowering tool, but beware of it's sharp edges, and do not let it overpower your own Will or life force.
Life is accumulating power, then discharging it.
Another fact I cannot quite believe is the Chauvet cave paintings of lions in France that are ~30,000 years old.
Not only are they accurate but they are highly stylistic and beautiful. Even motion seems to be captured to me. A dozen animals are drawn together, so it is no one off fluke but an intentional montage.
Elite interior aesthetics thread
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To answer Nayib Bukele, I believe the purpose of the West is to throw the spear of mankind further
