This is almost impossible under a fiat system; we are born in debt, and not only are we impeded from acquiring the means to repay the debt at every step, but the debt can't ever be repaid anyways because no one holds it, and the unit of account is arbitrary.
Most people don't ever want to repay the debt anyways, because that would be freedom, and responsibility for their lives; they are much happier using this system to plunge others into debt and leverage control over them to improve their position for future debt bondage mobilisations.
Only way out is to opt out of the system, and make the unit of account a fair and open standard.
Is it no good? I have never used it but thought about doing so in the future.
We shall all remember the defeat of the Hexican army at the Trust-me-bro...
Remember the Trust-me-bro!
Was typing up a long didactic (bordering on pedantic?) reply to Karnage's note this morning, as to what can be done about smart phone addiction...
I ended up discarding it, even as I was several paragraphs deep, because I just lost the "juice" and didn't feel like finishing, but it was kind of a shame because my points were good and it was helping me get my thoughts in order. I felt like there was no point in putting in any more effort to a post that no one would read, but now I really regret it.
So, in the spirit of the original post and to make up for my hasty act of self-denigration, a quick summary of my thoughts:
Phones are status symbols, and our attachment to them stems primarily from this. Sure there's a neuro-chemcial, instant gratification element to them, but I think that gets over emphasized compared to the very primordial need of humans to use their social networks to flex on each other and thus establish themselves in the hierarchy.
Without a massive shift in class consciousness whereby the elites opt for alternative signs of power in order to deprive the commoners from their little power simulacra, it seems unlikely that the phone gets ditched by anyone. In fact, because the phone does allow elites to actually perpetuate networks of power, of both individuals and enterprises, they have no incentive to ditch it, and the plebs being the target of the enterprises and eager to imitate their masters are doubly incentivised to keep using it!
I think the Bitcoiner's reflex of just "opting out" is a good middle ground that could help the average person stay safe and sane in the dangerous social media landscape, while not regressing out of the powerful electronic networks that are such an important means of generating hope, in a world that increasingly struggles to do so.
Anyways, a tiny sketch on a massive topic that needs to stay in the front of our minds, because the phone is very much an ambivalent object.
yeah word. I wouldn't advocate a direct humbling, but zap shaming on nostr is just not it.
This isn't a strip club and a zap is not a tip.
...And that's OK because plebs are out there putting bounties on smashing orbs.
It's time to opt out of the oligarchs' dystopian vision of the future and buy Bitcoin FFS!
Nostr just seems to be buzzing these days. Everybody running around, busy little bees.
And I'm sitting here watching the UFC in my underpants.
Anyways, carry on.
I feel you deep down on this one brother.
I'm a bit of hypocrite here, I use other social media, mostly reddit and a tiny bit of twitter, however it is exactly like my attitude towards Bitcoin and money.
Is it perfect and will it unseat the obviously broken incumbent system? Probably not, I can't really say because there are a lot of factors to consider, and I'm not an expert or fully informed by any means.
But as to whether it's better than what we have, and whether or not it offers hope where the current system does not, I am 100% steadfast in my conviction that I have chosen correctly.
#BONO yeah yeah yeah yeah
Now debate which one fell off harder, and was it due to greed, incompetence, or radical politics...lol
Just say you're training an AI on what kinds of images NOT to produce and it needs positive evidence...
nostr is a device for transferring zaps from the patient to the patient. - Warren Buffet's bastard twin
Hopefully ETFs launching will show us some peaks and valleys that absolutely freak the normies the fuck out!
damn. imagine not having to live only to work for your overlords seven days a week.
I feel like my engagement has gone way down here since the early days; I don't have a big following at all, but I used to get more replies and zaps than I do now.
Oh well.
But the big Bitcoiners and all the nostriches who I didn't know existed before nostr are great to follow, lots of great content here, and I love being able to zap mfers.
The fact that RFK garners so much recognition from Bitcoiners is a big problem. He is terrible for Bitcoin and he's only using it to try and cement his far-right bonafides, because unfortunately, in the mainstream political discourse, Bitcoin is just another way that the oligarchs leech wealth out of the workers and kill the planet in doing so.
Now of course I'm not saying I believe that, but being associated with far-right conspiracy theorists who are clearly funded to be divisive figures within the Democratic party only further makes Bitcoin a wedge issue, rather than it becoming a true policy platform that can be seriously presented to the public and debated.
Just like fascism is coming to America draped in the flag and carrying a cross, CBDC totalitarianism comes decked out in orange while calling out the IRS.
Bitcoin is for freedom and is therefore antithetical to far-right politics; let's show some political literacy and not start licking boots the minute someone promises to pump our bags.
lol yeah
People: "You can't believe everything you read online"
*Chat GPT cobbles together some bullshit from online sources*
People: "Wow, it must be true because it came from an AI!"
I'm just gonna put this out there, because it's been bothering me for a while, and no one will read this anyways, but it's something that has to be said:
Just because a politician is pro-Bitcoin, it doesn't mean that they are good for Bitcoin.
Believing in, and being honest about sound monetary policy is an important, maybe even fundamental, position to hold as a politician, but it doesn't have the emotional or rhetorical weight required to win elections.
Politics is a game that distorts reality, where earnest and reasonable policy positions don't matter at all, except perhaps as keys to unlock access to niche voting blocks. Broad electability stems from the media narrative that emerges from a more or less manufactured consensus.
So if your whole media persona is based on fringe nonsense, embracing of the opposition's distorted caricature of the party you chose to run under (and their money of course), and otherwise "I'm not like other politicians" contrarianism, you've already lost the game before anyone learns about your platform.
No politician will ever actually be good for Bitcoin, so it's time to stop trying to latch onto any one who claims to be, especially the ones who are an absolute embarrassment and disgrace without ever being close to electable.
Absolutely could not be me dawg