Many of you desire self-sovereignty. Being the master of your own destiny, of not being dependent on evil institutions, or on the benevolence of others is not great. It's a journey and it's not easy.

The biggest and most vulnerable point in your general, overall being is your job. It's the attack vector everyone uses to control you. And you probably instinctively protect yourself... by adopting conventional opinions, by not being too out there, by playing lots of office politics, by dutifully doing what's required of you and blaming someone else when things go wrong.

You're vulnerable in this area because when your income is entirely from one place, you're essentially controlled by that one place. This is how fiat money is used to control you. They can chop off your livelihood in one shot. Thus, they can demand almost anything. And even if you have really good skills, when you switch jobs, you're subject to yet another central controller.

The solution is to decentralize your revenue and not have a single point of failure. Get some side hustles. Figure out how you can make money in lots of little one-offs. When people ask you to do stuff, see if you can sell that as a service.

It's through having lots of customers, and not just one, that you become self-sovereign.

It's funny how the affinity scammers inevitably point to carnivory when they want to attack Bitcoin Maximalists.

The Bitcoiner position is so strong that they feel the need to attack an adjacent belief that they haven't examined at all.

When your opponents use straw men and non-sequiturs, you've won.

Dystopian scenario:

Climate issues cause unrest. AI automated most labor

CBDCs

Rations

Allow the population to starve and slowly die off

Elites-only habitat

nostr is hope

“Taxes are the price we all pay to live in a decent society.”

Your taxes:

How'd I do Nostr?

NEW - Elon Musk: "The banks are melting."

#Bitcoin is the escape route ✊

When people are threatened by what you stand for, they may attempt to diminish or discredit you, in hopes that others won’t be enamored with your passion and your power. They know you effortlessly diminish and discredit *them* by simply being who you are.

Be you anyway. Harder.

Just ate 22oz of perfectly grilled picanha.

Didn't take any pictures. I always think about it before hand, but then the hunger takes over. 😂