There’s a widely held belief that empathy is a virtue and I’m not sure that’s accurate.

Compassion is a virtue, but empathy seems to be pathologically corrosive.

Haven’t totally made up my mind on this, but I’m leaning towards the idea that empathy in general is actually destructive.

GM #nostr family, from the dark fiat mine. ☕️🩻☕️

SATURDAY SHARE!!!

Every Saturday we round up the photographers of #nostr to share our latest work from the week, or just all time favorites. Always a great time to connect with others and learn a thing or two.

Q: What did you do / where did you go for the holidays?

* Reshare + reply to earn a #zap

GM from the fiat mines, #nostr family. ☕️

End the central bank cartel, income taxes, and the IRS (for starters).

People on X want to know what nostr:npub1k7vkcxp7qdkly7qzj3dcpw7u3v9lt9cmvcs6s6ln26wrxggh7p7su3c04l is up to, but you can only find out if you’re on NOSTR.

GOOD MORNING NOSTR.

GRATEFUL FOR YOU ALL.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!

LIVE FREE. 🫡

Let’s pray hyperbitcoinization never occurs, because if the dollar does suddenly collapse… I guarantee you, we will be blamed for it.

I bought #bitkey on launch ...but sofar trusted only 100 dollar to .. still stuck in #coinbase and #cashApp (:-

keep saying this ..I will sure pass the hurdle with little nudge or push :-)

This entire game is about energy preservation & appreciation of your purchasing power, over medium/long periods of time. Strip all of the economic & financial dogma away, and keep it simple:

Technology is more advanced than ever, yet prices keep going up, as more units of currency perpetuate the system; it never ends.

The idea of an absolutely scarce monetary asset with supply inelasticity relative to demand, tied directly to energy markets with an ever increasing marginal production cost, is so profound, that most dismiss it outright; are repulsed by it even. It breaks worldviews.

A majority of people are so comfortably dependent on the incumbent system, that they will decide defend a ticking time bomb.

A small minority understand the system as it exists from within, yet defend it for reasons of self interest and greed; dishonorable but understandable given the incentives.

The rest are useful idiots, defending the system while being exploited by its very existence. This cohort is definitively in the blast radius, due to their own sheer ignorance and/or incompetence.

On the other side, there exists an intransigent and uncompromising minority of people who have come to understand the ultimate reality of both systems. Economic game theory and a desire for a different rules based order leads them to simply just leave to start playing a different game entirely.