Happy Monday y’all. We’ve been gifted with a worthy mission. Keep grinding. GM PV 🤙🏼⚡️💜

“The irony, of course, is that the “libertarian” think tanks delivering these defenses are no longer libertarian in any meaningful sense. Libertarianism once meant freeing markets and empowering individuals. Today, these institutions function as aristocratic libertarianism: freedom for capital, discipline for labor, abundance for the donor class, austerity for everyone else. This purpose is served regardless of the researcher’s political history (Winship was a Democratic strategist) because of the institutional necessity of defending the financial status quo that funds the think tank. The left and the right elite have come together to defend themselves against the deplorables whose dubious moral character is the source of their failings.”

Part 2: The Door Has Opened

A discussion on the real word has begun. It's about time

“It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” - Upton Sinclair

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Happy Turkey Day to the Americans. Hope the family time is deeply fulfilling. GM PV y’all- happy orange and purple pilling.

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Flipped all my gold holdings that I’ve had from below $3k into BTC this morning because I’m a highly regarded degen trader

Good morning & happy Monday good free people. Pill someone today. Send a PR. Review a PR. Add a ticket. Complete a ticket. Something. Take one small step towards more freedom for everyone. 💪🏼🤙🏼

"...if you measured income inadequacy today the way Orshansky measured it in 1963, the threshold for a family of four wouldn’t be $31,200. It would be somewhere between $130,000 and $150,000. And remember: Orshansky was only trying to define “too little.” She was identifying crisis, not sufficiency. If the crisis threshold—the floor below which families cannot function—is honestly updated to current spending patterns, it lands at $140,000. What does that tell you about the $31,200 line we still use? It tells you we are measuring starvation."

Part 1: My Life Is a Lie

How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America

Interns earn trust by being useful. Leaders earn legacy by becoming useless.

Had a wallet bug I had to get back to desktop to fix. Couldn’t zap for a couple days while I was AFK. Totally changed my Nostr experience. Zapping, for me, is essential.