It’s not the US government that censors people. It’s corporations. Read “The Myth of Capitalism”
To have a decentralized protocol and then to ask a corporation to centralize its onboarding seems to be going backwards.
This is an inconvenience, but inconvenience doesn’t dissuade the sort of people that are drawn to protocols over platforms.
My fiat job is a pretty important one. But it serves one child at a time. My miners are roaring along in service of billions, 24-hours a day.
I like that.
Unfortunately people often neglect to seek truth. They seek the mouth and accept whatever comes from it
To promote Bitcoin is really to promote mathematics. A Bitcoin influencer is really just an interpreter for people unfamiliar with the math. Love the math, not the influencer.
That’s a fair criticism. People are enamored by billionaires. If one of them makes a move that confirms our own decisions, all the more so. The billionaire class is not here to enrich us. nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m is here to promote his holdings, and a cultish following is an effective means to achieving that. Only a man without a stake can provide a balanced argument.
He makes some great points, and he elucidates some complex economic concepts for the people in no position to navigate them. But he makes his arguments from a position of protection and leverage that very few of us can mimic.
That doesn’t diminish his Bitcoin message, but we should always be able to distinguish the message from the messenger.
A cultish attitude toward anything impairs logical evaluation of that thing.
That’s a fair criticism. People are enamored by billionaires. If one of them makes a move that confirms our own decisions, all the more so. The billionaire class is not here to enrich us. nostr:npub15dqlghlewk84wz3pkqqvzl2w2w36f97g89ljds8x6c094nlu02vqjllm5m is here to promote his holdings, and a cultish following is an effective means to achieving that. Only a man without a stake can provide a balanced argument.
He makes some great points, and he elucidates some complex economic concepts for the people in no position to navigate them. But he makes his arguments from a position of protection and leverage that very few of us can mimic.
That doesn’t diminish his Bitcoin message, but we should always be able to distinguish the message from the messenger.
Imagine the billions or trillions that the banking system extracts from the world in service fees, transfers, interests…all unearned economic rents.
Now scatter them back upon the population… preservation of human labor for those that really produced it.
This is the power of Bitcoin to improve the welfare of the bankers’ debt slaves.
We’re terrified of public opinion from the moment we’re born, partially due to religious training, partially due to an educational system that is not very interested in educating us.
What, really, the rulers want are docile workers, who refuse to have anything to do say about minimum wage or labor unions, and passionate consumers…
Gore Vidal
History of the National Security State
More background to this question: You folks are inspiring me to kick Telegram to the curb. If you want to manage your Bitcoin-centric groups, would you recommend SimpleX, Matrix, XMPP, or something else?
Who has experience with Simplex Chat for groups?
I notice that the number of zappers is growing appropriately, but those zapped seems stagnant. Either the new folks are not creating content that people value…or we are choosing to zap people we like rather than content that is worthwhile.
I hope the latter is not the case. Human tendency to listen to the person saying a thing rather than to listen to what is being said makes me feel that this is probably the case though. If I had a nickel for every time someone posted an inconsequential quotation from someone that they liked…
The central bank was started by bankers, using subversive politics against a public and against a government that would have never accepted a wolf if not shod in sheeps’ clothing
For those who want to understand the insidious role that corporate monopolies play in controlling government decisions and in designing the obliteration of the middle and lower classes, this is your book. Thank you for the recommendation @Freyheid nostr:note159nfml3pz87usrmflux8grmzs99rrp4ncpzwrqwq0knrcut4v5xsk63any
The fact that every high government position is filled with a rotating schedule of corporate elites… that every senator and representative becomes a multimillionaire within a few years of serving… that there are 6000 lobbyists registered in Washington who serve corporate interests…that government bailouts without fail go to private banking, insurance, or real estate interests, and that the central bank itself is a collection of probate banks…should remind us all that government has been subordinated to the interests of private corporations.
Our lack of jobs is not because of any oppressed class of people…domestic or foreign. It is because the corporations in the 90’s convinced both parties that the greater corporate profits that could be extracted from foreign markets, would trickle down to the American people whose jobs would be sacrificed.
That Americans now blame third world people rather than the ruling domestic elites is proof that the manufactured consent was highly successful.
The most common debate about these people is whether they take jobs from Americans. That’s a fair question. The people asking that question assume that their own joblessness is due to the presence of these newcomers. They don’t recognize that these foreigners are here at the behest of corporations, who long to pay people less because they cannot claim the same labor protections as you or me.
Yes. Corporations love the oppressed classes. Our Central American brothers are here without legal protections, without representation, without fair housing or healthcare. And the media is able to polarize the people about these classes’ legality, which completely distracts them from the great social justice question that we should be considering: are these people being exploited by the ruling classes, and is their misery being used to foment race relations between the right and left?