Stories of extreme upward mobility serve to propagandize the myth that the American Dream is commonplace.

This serves the elite, who want you to believe that you to can have a yacht. The belief that “hard work is all you need” will keep you working into the grave.

The poor don’t position themselves at all. That’s the nature of poverty: little voice, little movement, little power, little upward mobility.

Most of you have more in common with the homeless man than you do with the billionaire, yet the billionaire dances and smiles and convinces you of your brotherhood.

The middle class and the poor are wage earners, debt peons, receive little to no rents, own little real property, and are beholden to the finance, insurance, and real estate monopolies. The poor are not your enemies. The rentier that siphon unearned income from a system to which they bring no productive value, are your enemies.

Distain for the homeless and the destitute is the same distain that the billionaire class have for you. To blame others’ misfortunes on their shortcomings is to not understand that the system is designed to shift wealth from the middle and lower classes into the pockets of the finance, insurance, and real estate sectors.

Blame the poor for their troubles, and you are complicit with the financial system that will eventually impoverish you in the same way.

The best education about Bitcoin doesn’t mention Bitcoin. It arms you with an understanding of a broken social system, of which a broken economic system is but a symptom.

Dogmatic subscription to any belief, no matter how well-intentioned, will inevitably lead to abuse. The only philosophy to which I am stubbornly committed is that of having an open mind.

👍🐿 Well said

Established market “authorities” will always seek a legal structure that provides them a competitive advantage and closes the door behind them.

#bitcoin evens the playing field

“Freedom is the absolute right of every human being to seek no other sanction for his actions but his own conscience, to determine these actions solely by his own will, and consequently to owe his first responsibility to himself alone.”

Daniel Guerin

Anarchism. P. 31

On #bitcoin

In a world controlled by capital interests and corporations, there are no laws; only power.

Technology breeds order, efficiency, and improvement. Not growth. The drive for growth is a remnant of inflationary currency, and of the myths pushed by men who have learned how to use growth to take what you have already produced.

Or Jack Dorsey. Or Elon Musk. Or Ron Paul. We’re conditioned to use the appeal to authority fallacy to help us make decisions about the unknown. If we respect the math, the opinion of a cogent nobody Twitter user should be far more compelling than oligarchic figures of the traditional system

By the way, I hope you find a block. And then use a bit of it to lift up some part of the living world around you.

I would tell all you cats about it, hoping to inspire you to solo mine as well. Concentration of miners into larger and larger pools is short-term thinking for a long-term asset

As a pie that is divisible to 8 decimal places…where a Satoshi currently equals $0.000273, Bitcoin can pretty much absorb as much value as it wants and still be useful as a daily currency to buy a pen

Bitcoin really isn’t an investment. It doesn’t provide returns. It stores your work energy, and allows you to step aside from the fiat system of working ever harder for a dollar that is work ever less

Maybe we should all watch War Games this weekend.

73% of statistics are made up on the spot.

👍 And of course writing their own government contracts and bailouts. What better way to privatize public funds.

They didn’t pay 4.7 billion for those subscription fees. They paid that much so they could sell your information. And they’ll write their own laws to make it legal for themselves to do it, and illegal for others to compete.