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Overlaps between the #FOSS, #Bitcoin, and #Marxism movements, just food for thought:

1. Protecting the plebs from the extractive practices of the elite - data collection being the main concern of FOSS, theft through inflation for Bitcoin, and theft of surplus value in the sphere of productive economy for Marxism

2. Collectivization of vital resources - FOSS collectivizes code, Bitcoin collectizes the transaction ledger, both reading and writing it, and Marxism collectivizes industry.

3. Sustainability - is one of the highest virtues of all three movements, and all three try to combat the unsustainable practices of the capitalist system as it actually exists in its current fiat state in their own ways

4. Common Enemy - big tech, mega corporations, rent seekers, cantillionaires, the fed, the deep state, the Bourgeoisie. These all describe a very tiny set of people and all three movements agree these are the bad guys.

5. Class Consciousness - Not only is knowledge of who is the common enemy stressed, all three movements ascribe tremendous importance on raising the level of EDCUCATION and SELF SUFFICIENCE of the average person, as all three view these as vital prerequisites for any sort of democratic system to succeed.

Say what you want about socialism in practise vs socialism on paper (socialists themselves don't even agree on this), the only assertion I'm trying to make here is that there's a lot the ways of these movements share way more in common than people on both sidesbifbthe political specyrum let on. Maybe one day I'll write a heady and technical article about why Karl Marx would've been a Bitcoiner and why Bitcoiners today should study his writings but for now suffice it to say that everyone's lumping a lot of potential allies in with the bad guys. Marxists lump Bitcoiners in with crypto shills and VC scumbags and Bitcoiners lump Marxists in with Democrats and the growing surveillance states and nanny states. Another example of us fighting each other while they laugh.

Overlaps between the #FOSS, #Bitcoin, and #Marxism movements, just food for thought:

1. Protecting the plebs from the extractive practices of the elite - data collection being the main concern of FOSS, theft through inflation for Bitcoin, and theft of surplus value in the sphere of productive economy for Marxism

2. Collectivization of vital resources - FOSS collectivizes code, Bitcoin collectizes the transaction ledger, both reading and writing it, and Marxism collectivizes industry.

3. Sustainability - is one of the highest virtues of all three movements, and all three try to combat the unsustainable practices of the capitalist system as it actually exists in its current fiat state in their own ways

4. Common Enemy - big tech, mega corporations, rent seekers, cantillionaires, the fed, the deep state, the Bourgeoisie. These all describe a very tiny set of people and all three movements agree these are the bad guys.

5. Class Consciousness - Not only is knowledge of who is the common enemy stressed, all three movements ascribe tremendous importance on raising the level of EDCUCATION and SELF SUFFICIENCE of the average person, as all three view these as vital prerequisites for any sort of democratic system to succeed.

Say what you want about socialism in practise vs socialism on paper (socialists themselves don't even agree on this), the only assertion I'm trying to make here is that there's a lot the ways of these movements share way more in common than people on both sidesbifbthe political specyrum let on. Maybe one day I'll write a heady and technical article about why Karl Marx would've been a Bitcoiner and why Bitcoiners today should study his writings but for now suffice it to say that everyone's lumping a lot of potential allies in with the bad guys. Marxists lump Bitcoiners in with crypto shills and VC scumbags and Bitcoiners lump Marxists in with Democrats and the growing surveillance states and nanny states. Another example of us fighting each other while they laugh.

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I'm partial to Elf 😏

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hey hey. jc how are your first 3 days going with #grapheneOS?