harebrained thought that just occurred to me and i haven't interrogated for more than a minute but i'm publishing anyway because looking stupid in public is fine: The most honest indicator of the State's admission of real inflation rates is to be found somewhere in the penalty + interest charged for paying your taxes more than a year late. Think about it: if they intended to ONLY collect what you owe them and adjust for inflation, they're going to charge you some interest rate plus penalty. If they also want to get yield on it, that will also be in the interest rate somewhere. Hard to say what the breakdown is of the various factors in there, but they've gotta be in there, the numbers won't lie nor be in your favor. Otherwise, everyone would just pay their taxes this year with cheaper dollars next year or the year after. this must be a realer number than the CPI or any other manipulated metric they publish

are you sure you actually enjoy open protocols and being in proximity to other people's free choice in how they use them? if something **can** be built, then on a long enough timeline, it **will** be built (good thing, too! the opposite would be a sign of a dead protocol). you have to be comfortable accepting that the future will be filled with features you dislike and plan steer away from. any other posture is just training yourself to prefer closed platforms - which is exactly where you'll naturally end up.

@Bitcoin Beans check your DMs ;)

I'm reminded of this note again today as the state DOT decided it was for my best interest to install a giant fucking traffic sign directly outside the front door of my business, partially obstructing a charming hand-made, hand-painted (by me) wood shop sign. This is a quaint historic village that doesn't need huge, bright yellow, industrial signs in front of adorable antique buildings whose foundation stones predate the parasitic State agencies running roughshod over them. View quoted note →

freedom **is** better that what already exists View quoted note →