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"It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning." -Henry Ford

I did great in high school and was so concerned about being top of my class and always having good grades. Then I did poorly (I thought I did, but not really) on a really important test and was crazy upset about it at the end of my junior year.

My biology teacher, who was a seriously cool guy and had a really solid lookout on life, sat down with me and reframed how I thought about how the relationship between the real world and this ridiculous controlled experiment called “schooling.” Literally blew my fucking mind. Suddenly I saw school for what it really was and all of my frustrations and anxiety about it made so much more sense. SO much of it had felt pointless to me but I couldn’t explain why.

I immediately let go of the weight of it all and had a great senior year realizing that my frame should be on what I wanted to do afterward that was going to matter, and how my high school GPA basically wouldn’t mean shit in that regard. I still did pretty great, ended up 4th in my class, but literally all of the anxiety had vanished when I saw it for what it was.

I’ll never forget what a profound impact such a simple change in perspective was. And how quickly I was looking back on my “old self” and thinking what an idiot he was for not seeing what was right in front of him. Even something that he had felt and had itched at him for years, but couldn’t understand.

I look back now and realize that 99% of what I learned during those years that was even slightly useful, was all in Science Olympiad, which was basically a series of engineering challenges for students to compete on. It had nothing to do with my classes or my grades.

Had it not been for that, I would be shocked at how utterly pointless all of it really was. I can’t believe the amount of time and energy I had put toward something that was so meaningless when it came to the real world.

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You could debate whether school is the best format to teach reading, writing, and basic arithmetic.

You'd be hard pressed to argue that everything beyond that has degenerated into the kind of feminized nanny state brainwashing that borders on abuse, particularly for boys.

Less schooling and more real world experience, on-the-job training, and as-needed career-specific higher education would be a huge improvement.

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UFC fighter Bryce Mitchell 🫡

https://video.nostr.build/c3c93bf22e771236d43e6a3fd62dd45418604da00ebecfc57fd1446e3d7d58e7.mp4

Nostr is better than any of the others in my opinion, by 10X or more on day one. No corporations, no algorithms, no advertising. Nothing the other platforms can do will beat that combination.

The problem is that algorithms "improve" the user experience. Maybe it's just perception, maybe it's unhealthy, but it engaged people's attention whether they like it or not and that's what keeps them there.

And most people don't care about the corporation, they don't relate to them directly so it doesn't really matter.

And most people are consumers through and through. I never realized this in the past because my sales resistance is level 100 and I'm as far from a consumer as it's possible to be. But interacting with normies, their life really revolves around how to get the money to buy the next thing they saw on social media. Whether it's a blatant ad or a "lifestyle influencer", the stuff that makes me cringe in disgust is like cocaine to them. They buy into every latest marketing trend every single time. If it isn't on their social media, they'll go looking somewhere else until they find it

Lol, Victoria now has a Parliamentary Secretary for Men’s Behaviour Change.

We’re about 10 years from the forced sterilisation of newborn baby boys to protect women from violence.

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I decided to write about something a little different this week. If you're in or near a state with legal sports betting (30 states now), you can get thousands of dollars in free bets and bonus offers just for signing up to different sports books. This is a complete, detailed, step-by-step guide, illustrated with lots of screenshots, showing exactly how to turn those offers into cash with no risk, and no prior experience or knowledge about sports or betting. Check it out! It's free money, and you might as well use it to stack some sats.

If you have any questions or anything is unclear, reach out to me here or on Substack and I'll do my best to help you.

Don't sleep on this one, people. Not only can you make thousands yourself, you can repeat that with every member of your family and friends, and split the profits. It's a great opportunity to pick up some extra cash on the side with very little effort.

https://open.substack.com/pub/f0xr/p/sports-betting-bonus-offers-for-dummies?r=3i492j&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Theory of Everything

No. I am arguing that ecash fits a niche group of people technologically adept enough to use ecash effectively. Not that it is not worth developing, That it has an extremely small market fit.

Theory of Everything

There are places in the world where people still use natural resources more than fiat currencies to transact. In Sub-Saharan Africa a grandmother will grow a crop of tomatoes to trade for two chickens and 40kg of rice. She will earn 1.50$ per day otherwise. It would be great for her to use e-cash to make those transactions, But a 100$ smartphone is a serious investment for an elderly woman who relies on her 8 grandchildren to help her along in life. I am just stating it is worth doing some market research to find real world use cases.

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If people are still using barter, that's fine, they don't need money.

If they do need money, I'm suggesting e-cash could be converted into PHYSICAL CASH. I don't know how to be more clear, you don't seem to be reading my words. PHYSICAL CASH. PAPER BILLS. I'm not suggesting an African grandmother needs to buy a smartphone. You're the one implying that e-cash isn't worth developing because you need a smartphone to use it. I'm the one arguing you might not need a smartphone to use it.

Theory of Everything

I suggest you spend some time in a place without internet or smartphones to get an idea of the challenges around introducing these concepts to people without these modern solutions.

What concepts? I'm talking about physical cash, paper banknotes, Benjamins. You're saying people without Internet don't understand the concept of cash?

I don't have a patronizing attitude toward people just because they aren't able to access or afford modern technology. People all over the world know how to take advantage of USD cash. If they had access to BTC cash that held value against their local fiat scrip as well as or better than the USD, and was also universally accepted by local money changers like USD cash, I'm sure most people would be capable of grasping that concept.

The Bullish ₿itcoiner

Tested with Damus. Worked the first few zaps but then either stops working or misses a lot. Do you know what the issue could be?

Having the same issue 😢

Theory of Everything

Nowhere here did I say it is not worth building. It takes ten years to source an oil well, And 100 years to empty it. Cars are about 150 years old. I am simply looking at the advance of technology from both sides, The haves and the people who benefit most from technology, The have nots. It is easier to convince rich people to live poorer than it is to convince poor people to continue living poor. There is just a few elements missing from connecting the unbanked with the modern world, And I feel like we should be designing these products with this in mind.

Disagree with your premise on convincing poor people to continue living poor.

Don't see how e-cash isn't a big step forward in connecting the unbanked to Bitcoin. It's accessible to anyone with a smartphone, which is a huge and rapidly growing population. Besides that, e-cash seems like the solution to physical cash on the Bitcoin network, for those without Internet access.

I'm not technical enough to design it, but the fact that e-cash can transfer offline with a QR code means the QR code could be printed on a physical note and transferred person to person. I'm imagining some system of printing the QR code in a way that couldn't be scanned without permanently destroying the note. That way it could be used peer to peer without an internet connection and as long as the note is intact the e-cash is valid. But anyone with an internet connection who wished to could destroy the note, scan the QR, receive the e-cash, and redeem it for self custodial Bitcoin at any time.

Something else for nostr:npub12rv5lskctqxxs2c8rf2zlzc7xx3qpvzs3w4etgemauy9thegr43sf485vg to create in all his spare time 🤣

Give a leader a central bank and he can rob the other banks.

A central bank is a banking cartel. Its purpose isn't to rob banks, it's to prop up banks when they get caught robbing you, so that instead of collapsing in bankruptcy and disgrace, they can continue to rob you indefinitely into the future.

https://open.substack.com/pub/f0xr/p/money-as-tokenized-reputation?r=3i492j&selection=1a3f8ac3-588a-42c0-87dc-81c99db1d7c2&utm_campaign=post-share-selection&utm_medium=web

I keep getting the update message as well, I'm ignoring it since I'm already up to date. App is working fine so far

Theory of Everything

What about the stupid people who can’t use a cell phone to access banking. I wish there was a nicer way to say it but really about half the world has no access to technology and/or a credit card, Let alone an ecash wallet. You are designing something aimed at bankers.

Half the world is 4 billion people. If you can build something that improves life for half the world, that's extremely worthwhile.

If benefiting half the world isn't a high enough bar for you, should we stop making bras and tampons and beard trimmers?

I don't have much patience for naysayers. If you don't think something is worth building, fine, no one is forcing you to build it. What are you building? Or are you too busy whining online about people who are building things to do anything productive yourself?

Job hunters PSA

Problems necessitate solutions. Solutions often take the form of capital goods. Capital goods enable surpluses of useful items; trade and money arises as a result.

That’s capitalism. It’s always existed and always improves the human experience. It’s taken our species from naked scavengers to masters of the planet. GM☀️

Well said. The synergy between capital formation and money is so pervasive, most people don't even see it. They're like fish who don't know water exists. That's how they can conflate money and wealth, and conclude that printing money is beneficial.

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

The women vs men salary statistic is nonsense if anyone just bothered to look at the hard data.

And there’s actually a super simple litmus test:

Are companies interested in making more money or not? If it were actually true that women of the exact same competence and skill level were getting paid 20% less than the men in their field for the exact same quality and amount of work, it would be the business opportunity OF A LIFETIME.

The typical margins for a business are tiny. Low single digits is the norm across the board. All any business would have to do is hire all women, could literally offer them all 5% or even 10% above market that they would get at any other company, and bam, that company just got 200-400% profit increase.

If such a disparity actually existed and it wasn’t because women choose different jobs, are interested in different things, or even work less hours (the stat that gets thrown around literally doesn’t even account for hours worked, it’s profound political bullshit, with respect), it would be gone in a matter of weeks, simply because it would be the greatest economic opportunity that exists in the economy today.

Sorry, but you’ve been misled by politicians who want power and they are just using our ignorance to get it.

I always find it interesting that the same people who hate capitalism and claim corporations are ruthless and greedy and will do anything to make a dollar, are often the same ones whining about the alleged "gender pay gap". Like you so eloquently explained, both of those can't be true.

😱 no ant can escape the ant lion's terrifying trap. When they try to climb out, the ant lion throws sand at them until they slide back down to the bottom of the cone, where he grabs them with his massive jaws.

https://v.nostr.build/WGwqR.mp4

Crop update, looking green across the field now.

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The old timers said "corn should be knee high by the fourth of July" but I think we get there by the fourth of June, and maybe first tassel by July 4 🤞🏼

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Crop update, corn emerging well in the standing rye. It'll make a nice mulch to suppress weed germination and conserve moisture until the corn can reach full canopy.

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Crop update, always hard to believe at this stage that this corn will be head high in less than 4 weeks, but it always happens.

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