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𝐏𝐚𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐝𝐮𝐞𝐬. 𝐘𝐨𝐮 𝐨𝐰𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦.

Let us speak plainly.

You were born on a patch of dirt claimed by men with flags. From that moment forward, you owe them. You owe them your labor, your privacy, your obedience, and—most importantly—your money. Not because you agreed. Not because you signed anything. But because they said so.

They built roads, they say. Never mind that private contractors did it, funded by your taxes under threat of prison. They defend your freedom, they say. As if sending young men to die in places you cannot pronounce, for causes you never understood, somehow protects your daughter’s ability to speak freely at the dinner table.

And now—how dare you—now you think you can leave? That you can move somewhere else? Keep your money offshore? Reduce your taxes? Buy a bit of digital magic money that no one controls? You must be immoral.

You must be avoiding your duty:

• The duty to fund wars you oppose.

• The duty to support bailouts for banks that evicted your neighbors.

• The duty to subsidize energy policies that make you poorer and colder.

• The duty to pay for a surveillance state that treats you like a suspect by default.

• The duty to remain, even when your country no longer serves you.

No, global mobility is immoral. You should be chained to your soil.

Wealth preservation? Immoral. You should let it all melt away in currency debasement.

Bitcoin? Disgusting. You should rely on central banks to keep your savings safe.

And tax avoidance? Treason. Every cent you keep from them is a cent not spent on the next war or ministerial junket.

You see, there is a moral clarity in staying put and paying up: it is the morality of sacrifice without consent. The morality of loyalty to those who owe you nothing in return. The morality of bearing burdens you never chose.

So fold that flag, swallow your objections, and smile for the camera as you pay.

It is not yours to ask why. It is yours to comply.

#Bitcoin

Why would the police raid your house? And if it’s a raid, they won’t give you 30 minutes. Pro tip: Don’t hide it in your own house. Hide it in your friend’s house without his knowledge.

Remember When Christine Lagarde Begged Sarkozy?

Back in 2007, Christine Lagarde—then France’s Finance Minister—wrote a letter to Nicolas Sarkozy, offering unwavering loyalty with the infamous words: “Use me.”

Let’s look at the highlights:

1. Total submission:

“Use me during the time that suits you and suits your action and your casting.”

2. Pleading for approval:

“If you decide to use me, I need you as a guide and a support: without a guide, I might be ineffective, without support I might be implausible.”

3. Utter self-effacement:

“I have no personal political ambitions and will serve you with loyalty and dedication.”

A Finance Minister, not offering expertise, but begging to be used.

Now, as ECB President, she controls the Euro, sets interest rates, and wages war on Bitcoin.

The real question: Who is she serving now?

Who is the dude? He is absolutely hysterical.

Next level corruption. I had a bad feeling when he was constantly talking with Brad Garlinghouse.

There are many voices who said that Trump doesn’t understand the difference. I think he does. He just wants to pump the bags of his friends. And that totally aligns with his meme coin.

Replying to Avatar corndalorian

What is dark nostr? I always think it’s kind of fun when you have to explain jokes.

I left 20 years ago. Back then, things were still pretty good in Germany. But Mutti Merkel did us in. So I am happy I left, but still upset about what’s happening.

Bitcoin is not controlled by math. Bitcoin is controlled by principled people, but the math helps.

I think we haven’t bottomed out yet. Euphoria was way too pronounced before consolidation. Also there is a lot of macro uncertainty. I would join the 70k team, perspectively. It reminds me a bit of the last bull run when everybody was convinced that we will absolutely go above 100K. Obviously, the question here is: are we still in a bull run? History says yes, but every time is different. Hings would certainly look up in the short term, if the US make some kind of reserve announcement, as alluded to by Lummis. Anyways: stick to your sats, fellow bitcoiners. And remember: the boogeyman is only in your head.

Replying to Avatar Michael Snoyman

My wife and I have six children, making our house a household of eight people. Looking just at the eight of us, how many relationships exist? Well, as a first stab, we could look at how many connections exist between two unique individuals in this family. The mathematical term for this is “8 choose 2”, and the answer is 8\*7/2, or 28\.

Even that doesn’t really capture the answer though, because relationships aren’t just between two people. For example, when my wife and two oldest children are the only ones still awake after the younger kids go to bed, we’ll put on my mature TV shows that they’ll appreciate and watch together. It’s our own little subgroup within the group.

Based on that, we could have groups of 2, 3, 4, all the way up to 8, the group of all of us. If you do the math, this comes up to 247 different subgroups of 2 or more people. That’s a lot of groups for just 8 people.

As a father, this means I’ll never be able to fully understand every set of connections within my family. I may have a good understanding of my own relationship with each child. I also am closely aware of the relationship between our two youngest children, since they’re twins. And I could probably list 20 or so other noteworthy relationships. But I’ll never understand all of them.

For example, months ago I bought a game on Steam for my 3rd and 4th kids. I know they like to play games together, so it was a relationship that I thought I understood well. A few days ago I found out that my oldest had joined them in playing one of these games (Brotato). I’d made the purchase, given it to the kids, and it sparked new relationship and interaction structures without my involvement.

There’s no problem with the fact that I can’t track every interaction in my house. That’s healthy\! The kids are able to discover ways of interacting beyond what I can teach them, learn everything from schoolwork to video games from each other, and overall become more healthy and well-adjusted adults (I hope).

And here’s the important part: the growth of the number of connections is *massive* as the number of participants increases. If we add in another participant, we have 502 groupings. At 10 total participants, it jumps to over 1,000. By the time we get to 100, we’re well into the trillions.

A mathematical and software term for this is *combinatoric complexity*, the massive increase in an output value based on a small increase in the input. The analysis I’m providing could be termed as part of graph theory (for connections of 2, looking at people as *vertices* and connections as *edges*) or set theory (unique subsets, allowing for larger group sizes). But regardless, the point is: the increase in complexity is huge as more people join.

Now consider the global economy. It’s over 8 billion people. There are so many people that the number of groupings is absurd to talk about. Nonetheless, massive numbers of these groupings naturally occur. There are family units, friend circles, individual connections, companies, project teams, sports teams, schools, classes, and millions more. These groups of people form new ways of interacting, express vastly different desires for goods and services, and are capable of producing wide varieties of goods and services themselves.

When you allow this system to run free, beauty emerges. Each node in the graph can manage its own connections. Each *person* is free to make his or her own decisions about association, what to spend time on, what to spend money on, and so on. Each person does so on their own judgement and world view.

Some of these people may make “dumb” decisions. They may “waste” their time and money on useless things. Except: who made that value judgement? Clearly not them, they decided it was worth it. No central planner has the right to override their will.

My point in all this is: as yet another of many reasons in the list of “why people should be free,” we have one more data point: pure math. Central planning will never scale. Central planning will never appreciate the individuality and desires of each person. Only by giving people the freedom to explore their connections to others, discover what they can produce and consume, explore their options, and ultimately make their own decisions, can we have any chance of creating a world where everyone can succeed.

Thanks for sharing. It’s a new way for me to look at free markets. And it confirms what history teaches: central planning is requires the misguided confidence of a few individuals to understand what’s in front of them and then to also be able to predict how their interference will materialize as output. Two highly presumptuous ideas.