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Everyone should have equal access to knowledge and insightful conversation. To create an inclusive currency and then to create a special-people-club is to forget the point.
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We need you up there too
I would have come to Miami if they removed everyone else, and only had Andreas Antonopoulos speaking.
I think he needs one fewer. If one evaluates risk thoughtfully, one is far more worried about heart disease and car accidents than one is about being shot.
If Miami’s lectures suck, get online and order Sheldon Wolin’s “Democracy Incorporated” and Michael Hudson’s “Killing the Host.”
That money will serve you better than your Miami ticket.
Living within a society that is designed for the purpose of keeping the majority of the population in a constant state of work, fear, and anxiety. Poor people are meant to be poor, because their poverty makes them ripe for exploitation.
The most comprehensive discussion of the IMF that I have read is in Michael Hudson’s “Super Imperialism.” The conversation should begin with the First World War and Europe’s management of debt, and then contrast this with America’s loan repayment contracts with England and France after World War 2.
If a president serves the interests of the establishment, he will be sheltered and his sins erased. If he doesn’t serve their needs, his sins will serve as his noose.
What they really mean is that they use monetary policy to control labor costs for corporations.
Is unemployment too low and labor becoming too expensive and eating into profits? Let’s pump rates and subdue worker power, and make workers hungry and willing to work for less.
Is unemployment too high that people are at risk of unifying? Let’s drop rates and give our free money: 80% will serve asset price inflation for the rich, and 20% will filter into wages to pacify the masses.
If you’re in Miami today and find yourself cheering when someone says something about price growth, others being poor or dumb, not needing any government or social services, or advocating for the implosion of world order to pump Bitcoin, you’re missing the point.
Cheer instead when someone speaks about improving universal knowledge and adoption of a freeing currency, improving privacy and fungibility, increasing access for oppressed people, improving movement and communication among those people, and revoking governments’ ability to manage dissent through imprisonment and financial enslavement.
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone?
Girls have picked them every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young girls gone?
Taken husbands every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young men gone?
Gone for soldiers every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Covered with flowers every one
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the flowers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the flowers gone?
Girls have picked them every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young girls gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young girls gone?
Taken husbands every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the young men gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the young men gone?
Gone for soldiers every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the soldiers gone?
Gone to graveyards every one
When will they ever learn?
When will they ever learn?
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time passing
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Long time ago
Where have all the graveyards gone?
Covered with flowers every one
When will we ever learn?
When will we ever learn?
When I see a soldier in the airport, I am not inclined to thank them for their service.
I am inclined to apologize for the fact that their lives have been co-opted by the government, their world view has been manipulated to serve its purposes, their lives have been put at great risk to enrich the corporations that benefit from their service abroad, and they are destined to be forgotten by the tax payers and left holding the bag of physical and mental atrocities once they are no longer useful.
Love the soldiers. But love them for being exploited beings just like you.
I notice that the more followers that people on Nostr tend to have, the fewer people they tend to follow.
Thus the more people talk about their chosen topic, the less inclined they are to be open to opinions from others on the platform
Because selling an entrance to heaven is big business for the world’s religions. After running a money printer, the second surest business is to convince the people that you act as gatekeeper to immortality, and to charge them for your services.
Next Monday is my favorite holiday of the year.
Bitcoin Pizza Day on my calendar