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For the first time in a long time, the young have no incentive to care, protect, or fight for their countries and their communities. In fact, their incentive is to do as little as possible and to leave. The US and most Western countries are fucked, actually.
If or when the times comes;
What are they going to fight for? Their countries’ values? Which values? Whose values? Last they checked, there isn’t much of a consensus on this (by design). And regardless of whose values are considered to be “right,” it doesn’t seem like any of them are working for them right now anyway.
Their homes? Whose homes? The ones they can never hope to own because of the current system.
Their families? Whose families? The ones they don’t have because they cannot afford them or were told aren’t worth having.
Their land? Whose land? The one the government ignores in favor of foreign lands.
Their property? Which property? Their debt? Because that’s all they will ever own given the circumstances.
Food for thought. #Bitcoin may be a solution, but until most realize this, the direction things are going in is not good.
When I watched season 1 of Rings of Power I decided to overlook the overwhelming ideological propaganda because I really like the Lord of the Rings (shouldn’t have). However, after the first episode of season 2, I decided to stop watching it for good. In this case, the reason is pretty absurd, but real. I cannot literally see what’s happening. Meaning, the screen is almost black during entire scenes, where you can only hear but not see anything (even with TV brightness settings at max). This is a failed production, in my opinion. I regret giving them the benefit of the doubt by watching season 1, and I regret overlooking the values of those behind the production.
GM #nostr
nostr:npub1exv22uulqnmlluszc4yk92jhs2e5ajcs6mu3t00a6avzjcalj9csm7d828 is a game changer. If you are paranoid about privacy, this is it.
Stressful day of work, I go into the living room, and my wife is playing with my son; he’s laughing like he heard the greatest joke of all time, The Hobbit playlist playing in the background, sun shinning, 1#bitcoin is still 1#bitcoin. Stress is gone.
A state that kills children indiscriminately is a failed state. Little kids aren’t responsible for adults’ lack of capacity to resolve disputes. What’s happening in Gaza is terrorism. The current fiat system is enabling unlimited war without accountability.
#gm
I still remember the time when my last tenant threatened to make things difficult, when the HOA threatened to sue me, and all of the times that the leeches that rent-seek in the real estate business took from me. I remember thinking how crazy it was that so many people had me by the balls and how little control I had over my own wealth. I remember the anger, the frustration, and the lack of hope. I also remember the day I said to myself:
Fuck it.
#bitcoin
For those who still battle the idea of contributing to your 401K due to the match instead of selling every dollar for #bitcoin, here is a reminder. If you can’t use YOUR money when you want to, IT ISN’T YOURS. Fuck 59 and a half, and all of their rules and penalties. Why would you give them the power to penalize you for your use of YOUR savings? Why would you let them tell you when or how to use YOUR savings? Just like with all things fiat, the "match" is the little carrot they put in front of you to lead you down a path they control. They tell you a flashy story about how capital gains are tax-free, and you play the game with them by being happy about it. If that weren't enough, they categorize your savings as income whenever you withdraw them, and they tax you AGAIN on those dollars (putting to question whether the match cancels out at the end of the day). Don't feed into the current system. Stop using state-sponsored instruments like 401Ks and IRAs. GM
I can’t stand the Ramsey people telling Americans that lifestyle inflation is to blame for their ‘paycheck to paycheck’ situation. May be the case for a few, but for most it’s the fact that they cannot out-earn the real inflation that results from the Fed and the fractional reserve banking Ponzi. They’ve been steering their listeners into getting their savings diluted in the stock market, locking up taxed dollars meant for savings in state instruments that consider withdrawals as income, and taxing them again on the way out. All while simultaneously steering them away from #bitcoin. I wonder if their company will survive the loss of trust that will follow when their audience realizes the truth.
#Bitcoin eliminates the incentive to own your house under regimes that impose property tax today. The wealth-building aspect of paying towards equity is inferior to saving in #bitcoin (this is a fact). Plus, renting removes liability, caps costs, and provides flexibility. Even with a fully paid-for house, property tax (rent paid to the government), maintenance costs, and insurance will add up to about the same as rent for a similar place. And since most people move every 7 years on average, the cost of buying and selling will inevitably suppress further your wealth growth (and that is assuming you buy and sell at the right time). The best strategy for the current time is to let the transition take place. Once we are past the peak fiat era, buying a house at utility value with low to no property tax will become the norm. Local governments will look at people as assets for the local economy and will compete to attract residents. Now owners are just cash cows handcuffed to their piggy bank sitting on government property. Not a great proposition.
A rule for life: without exceptions, regardless of the situation, leave the kids alone. Protect the kids or leave them out of it. Peak fiat leaders don’t respect this rule. They are scum for it.
How I went from #Bitcoin enthusiast to toxic #Bitcoin maximalist.
Primarily anger, strong, unforgiving anger.
Anger for being told by boomers not to eat avocado toast while they sit in their million-dollar houses, bought for a decent price with money they stole from our generation, which we are currently paying back in the form of diminished purchasing power and lower quality of everything.
Anger for working longer and harder every fucking year, yet getting less and less overtime.
Anger for having to be exceptional, just to acquire the same things our predecessors got for being average.
Alongside came the frustration too.
As a man, being responsible for giving my family the best life I could possibly give them came with pressure. This pressure turned into frustration when I realized that no matter how good I was, the system outpaced me by stealing faster than I could grow ahead of it.
Guilt.
Guilt that I wasn’t giving my wife what her father easily gave her mother.
Guilt that I couldn’t even keep up with what currently was on the table because somehow, overtime there was less, no matter how much I pushed.
As a man, I always knew to take ownership and blame only myself for the negative outcomes of my life. This is why I went above and beyond every time. I left my country, I made it to the US, I made it to the Ivy League, I competed against everyone and everything, and I was successful when measured by every traditional metric. Yet, the average boomer seemed to have historically done way better while doing nothing special.
I actually then realized that the average boomer is actually quite weak, both physically and mentally. Which made sense given the good old saying that states ‘weak men create bad times’.
I also realized I’m not lazy. I’m not a rent-seeker, I’m a builder, an engineer; I’m not afraid to do hard things and compete. I have never aimed to do my best; I’ve aimed to do whatever it takes. I realized I could benefit from a system with rules and no rulers that requires value for value, honesty, and integrity. So I embraced Bitcoin.
I’m no longer angry. I’m not frustrated any more. I don’t feel any guilt. I finally understood what was going on so I adjusted accordingly. I’m at peace now. I will plant trees the shade of which I’ll never lie under, but I will be among the ones within my generation to turn the trend around, and that is a great purpose. Fiat times will be studied in the future, and people will wonder how this was even possible. This is what most haters of Bitcoin don’t get (mainly older generations). Those of us who think like this, we’re not selling, and we’re buying, and we’ll keep buying for as long as monopoly paper can be exchanged for real money, motivated by everything mentioned above. And I will never jump ship because the alternative I already tried and I didn’t like it. It’s enslavement and misery. Because I’d rather go all the way down for the right cause than cowardly jump into becoming a slave to the system again. And I will buy all the fucking supply if the price ever dares go low enough, as will all those who like me understand.
Onward.
Most people think that a 2008-type of crash will take place one day. With home values in USD going down suddenly. They don’t realize that the housing market is crashing if you measure prices in sats. In other words, it’s crushing upwards measured in USD right now, and it has been for a while. The end of the crash will happen when the exponential increase in USD prices reaches a point where people will no longer accept any amount of USD for their home as payment. In other words, home prices will have then crashed upwards in USD so much, that the USD needed to pay will technically not exist. People will demand a different form of payment, and #bitcoin will be it.
nostr:npub1cvqlzvmjercdn0ypsmv8f7j9lge6ahsnueh5rparh53wuswftv4q49yjt3 has achieved the perfect balance between privacy, sovereignty and security. It has essentially eradicated wrench attack profitability and single point of failure, while providing a platform for trust-less inheritance and incredible flexibility.
The fiat system is to blame for processed, addictive foods and the toxic environment we live in. We get sick more often because broken money incentives lead to degraded quality outputs. If you’re not in #bitcoin to defund the state, do it for your kids and your grandkids
It’s strange to realize that the government charges us tax when we spend our real money (aka #bitcoin) because their fake money has lost value against ours since the time we acquired it as a result of their fraudulent actions
Weren't it not for #bitcoin, I might have chosen an Ocean’s Eleven-type of occupation. I know I wouldn’t have resigned to a life of slavery
Not having a presence on #Nostr in the digital age is technically self-enslavement. It is the only means to defend and enforce the First Amendment
The second amendment was the founding father's solution to a $5 wrench attack. Act accordingly #bitcoin
Working in politics or finance is rent-seeking. It doesn’t add value to society. Build things instead