It definitely was. "Don't worry the white hats are in control, 23,456 indictments in 2 weeks"
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I didn't take any. But I didn't attribute it to anyone because it was the thought itself that was relevant, not who may or may not have said it.
There are lots of quotes that have achieved viral meme like status despite having unknown origins. I also suspect there are efforts to disconnect some popular quotes from the people who said them. Because anything from 100+ years ago that wasn't recorded professionally or written by the person themselves could only be attributed to the person by someone else who heard what was said.
Okay, I just said it & it's true. I could have freed 1000s more fiat slaves if only they had known they were fiat slaves.
"I could have freed 1000 more if only they had known they were slaves"
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This is pretty interesting 🤔
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I think she represented the modern manifestation of Christianity pretty well, a whole lot of Christians have things completely backwards & she is not wrong to point that out. But her heroes were actually very Christ like. Married to truth & to making the world better while being persecuted for it. So her efforts to communicate right from wrong are very in line with what Christianity is supposed to be.
Her attack on Robinhood is similar, she even points out that he was actually robbing royalty & tax collectors to return things to their rightful owners, but it's the incorrect surviving ledgend in the minds of men that Ragnar is fighting.
She didn't in any way suggest that big business was opposed to regulation, her bad guys were people with big businesses using regulations to get ahead. That's like the whole story.
As someone who has read Atlas many times (& I get something from it every time) I would suggest that you might need to give it another go with fresh eyes.
I like Anthem, but The Fountainhead honestly didn't do that much for me. I do appreciate the points about authenticity tho.
Ayn Rand was fun to read, but ultimately, silly.
[Mozart was a Red!](https://youtu.be/KIk5C2qsRH8?feature=shared) - a play by Murray Rothbard (featuring a young Jeffrey Tucker)
Enjoy!
#sorry #notsorry
Have seen it. And while I agree that she was a very flawed individual (amphetamines & smoking tend to make a person rather agitated & arrogant). I completely disagree that there was anything particularly "silly" about Atlas Shrugged or her philosophy in general. She ultimately did not carry her own ideas to their logical & final conclusion though, which was basically the root of the intellectual split between her & Rothbard, and then she was shitty about it.
Competitive federated mints, networked by LN, & run on open source apps, & eventually on open source phones & other hardware are a very real potential solution given what is available right now without requiring any other major breakthroughs.
The very existence of Bitcoin, no matter how usable or unusable for day to day things, threatens everything about the way the State currently functions. All of the largest govts cannot exist in anything like their current forms without the power to inflate away people's savings.
We are already winning. Don't let how far we have left to go stop you from appreciating how far we have come.
Parenting failed successfully...?
No, but the number of people who believe a thing has never been any indication of what was true. "Consensus" killed how many important & innovative thinkers for being right?
People (being the social animals we are) seem much more driven to align with the herd than to actually think, so if you tell them that alignment with the herd is the key to being right they will happily give up thinking all together.
People who believe "consensus is truth" not only have no way to tell right from wrong, but they are basically aspiring to groupthink, which will never be anything but destructive.
I don't think anything in particular needs to be done to bitcoin. The ordinal shit will work itself out eventually. Luke's mining pool might be a way to address it, but CTV or APO & eventually CISA would be nice.
Same shit different day.
Money is half of every trade, & quite literally the key to mutually beneficial human interaction. Sound money vs corrupt money is the difference between prosperity & slavery. Bitcoin IS money that is JUST, but saying "it's just money" suggests a particularly shallow understanding of what money actually is. We are a trading species & good money keeps us human. Bad money creates hell on earth.
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Freedom is always "the greater good" because what's best for the individual is what's best for the whole.
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