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Some call it weeds, I call it free cover crop

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I despise the argument "fiat money is great, look at all the amazing progress of the last 50 years that we've accomplished because of Keynesian economics and elastic money and cheap credit yada yada yada..."

Not because of, in spite of.

If the thieves steal 5% of a farmer's crop every year, he doesn't say "look how bountiful my crops have been, theft is so great, hooray for thieves." He says "imagine how much more productive my farm would be if I didn't lose 5% to these worthless thieves 😡".

Meanwhile the thieves in banking and government have been pissing down our leg for a hundred years while their accomplices in media tell us to thank them for the rain.

Ever felt something is fishy about banking, but don't quite know why? My attempt to explain how banking works here

https://open.substack.com/pub/f0xr/p/the-big-bank-lie?r=3i492j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

IMO 2% is very optimistic, maybe 1 person in 10,000 really understands deeply?

I think it's good to try to educate as many people as we can, but honestly I'm not optimistic about making fundamental changes that way. Most people don't use reason to support their beliefs, they just adopt an ideological package of beliefs based on emotions.

Instead I think the most optimistic path is simply to adopt and support better solutions ourselves as people who understand. Then when people see us thriving, they will emotionally adopt the ideology we package for them.

99% of people won't adopt a sound money concept because we explain economics to them, but if they see Bitcoin go to $100,000 or $1,000,000 while their fiat money buys less every day and all their government provided welfare programs fail and public infrastructure collapses, they'll be open to a "sound money is better" ideology.

As far as politics, I don't put any confidence in it whatsoever. Until the money is fixed, there are no political solutions, only political problems.

Modern "environmentalism" is a Malthusian death cult promoted by psychopathic Marxists as cover for their pursuit of power.

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Ignorance about money is so pervasive, while money is such a foundational technology, that it seems almost impossible to attribute it to mere happenstance...

Subtle, but fundamental.

Money is a representation of wealth. The wealth must already exist, or the money has no value. A billion dollars has no value to someone dying of thirst in the desert with no water in sight.

In the same way, a map is a representation of the existing terrain. If the terrain doesn't exist, the map is useless, just a figment of the cartographer's imagination.

Or worse, dangerous. If the cartographer marks El Dorado on his map, but sets a giant bear trap there instead, unsuspecting people will follow the map seeking treasure, but instead end up as slaves.

Same with money. The bankers create money with a keystroke, and it represents the real wealth that already exists. Then people who have that real wealth trade it for the deceptively created money, believing money and wealth to be equivalent. And the people who took out the loans the bankers used to create the money now find themselves slaves to the bankers, forced to produce real goods and services to pay back the loan and attached usury. Meanwhile the people who accepted the money in exchange find that it has lost value, and they have to work more and earn more money just to buy back the real wealth they sold in the beginning.

So the beneficiaries end up being the bankers, who collect usury for the service of "lending" money they never actually had to begin with. They use that to buy up real wealth produced by someone who, again, believes money and wealth are the same thing.

Confusing the map and the territory leaves you susceptible to deceptive maps that will send you to places you don't want to go.

Confusing money and wealth leaves you susceptible to deceptive money that will impoverish you in ways you'll never understand.

Bitcoin is honest money. Unfortunately too many Bitcoiners also haven't learned this principle, so they aren't immune to the promises of "something for nothing" that always comes from the aspiring usurers of the world.

More of my thoughts on this issue here

https://open.substack.com/pub/f0xr/p/money-is-not-wealth?r=3i492j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

"The financial gains from the major advancements in artificial intelligence, automation, and new technology must benefit the working class, not just corporate CEOs and wealthy stockholders on Wall Street." -Bernie Sanders

And why might that be, you clueless commie shill? Have you checked the banking system? Researched why banks are legally permitted to do something anyone else would go to prison for attempting? Questioned why we use debt and money interchangeablely? Or are you just spouting off some tired diatribe blaming "capitalism", which we don't even have in the US, for a problem caused by the very financial system that keeps parasites like you from starving to death? Yeah, that's what I thought. If you like communism so much shut your mouth and move to a communist paradise, preferably Cuba or North Korea. Otherwise, educate yourself before polluting the public discourse with yet more of your half-baked fantasies.

https://www.zerohedge.com/economics/sanders-introduces-bill-reduce-standard-workweek-32-hours

Love the optimism, but money is too powerful for that. Co-opting control of money is winning every time forever as long as you maintain control. Even if all the usurers disappear tomorrow, there will be a new crop the next day, falsely equating money and wealth, promising something for nothing, and deceiving the majority who will always believe a persuasive charlatan. The best we can do is protect ourselves and keep the life raft afloat for those who wake up and abandon the sinking fiat ship.

Absolutely, and I think it may be the single idea that enabled banking to hijack every aspect of society. If you get the entire population to mistake the map for the territory, cartographers becomes gods and everyone else is just a slave.

"Political solution" may be the most insidious oxymoron ever. "There is no political solution to the problem." Of course not, politics IS the problem.

Bitcoin is money. Bitcoin is not wealth, just like money is not wealth. Few will understand.

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Maybe the OP gets more zaps than the comments

There are 1,461,501,637,330,902,918,203,684,832,716,283,019,655,932,542,976 possible Bitcoin addresses. Sure you could randomly guess one. Good luck!

If every grain of sand on earth were another planet Earth, and each of those Earths had as many people as this one, there would be 3.5 billion Bitcoin addresses for each person, which would be 100 addresses for every second of their life if they all lived 100 years.

If you do decide to try and guess an address, please get an evolutionist to help you. They should be game, since they routinely state that equally unlikely things have happened repeatedly in order for life to evolve 🙄

Here's hoping your right. The way nuclear energy has been frivolously regulated out of existence for 50 years is a crime against humanity.

But Bitcoin doesn't get taxed out the wazoo every year regardless whether you make any income from it or not, then have Marxist regulations dictating how much rent you're allowed to charge. And who in their right mind wants to live in NYC anyway? Hard pass

needs to add "they also want to defund the police, so out of respect for their opinion I won't be calling the police if I notice anyone breaking into their house."

Absolutely. And making an unfalsifiable argument. If it goes up, I said it would go up. If it crashes, I said it would crash. Plus if it goes up, I won't benefit, but I can blame every problem in the world on Bitcoin