This is a “Do Stuff” vs. “Describe Stuff” dichotomy. Segregating talk from action will not end up with successful people who have slightly boring leisure time and full on poverty for those who’d be having a good time if they had any money.
Great new term - “Poligarch”. Politicians who control vast amounts of money and use it to enrich themselves while controlling their fiefdoms.
A concise name for something is powerful. It helps you recognize something that has always been there but hard to define. And it makes spreading the recognition much easier to others.
“Bitcoin is a cult!” We’ve all heard it. In this podcast, a great distinction between a cult and a movement/religion. Cult seek to increase your dependence on them, religions seek to increase your agency outside of them.
Are you advocating for bitcoin to increase people’s dependence on it as money, or increase their agency outside the confines of money? Don’t be a cult leader!
The modern internet+social media was a giant success for those betting we could implement a global panopticon and nobody would complain if a bunch of semi-amateur porn came along with it. @MartyBent is likely the architect.
“In your relationships with one another, have the same mindset as Christ Jesus: Who, being in very nature God, did not consider equality with God something to be used to his own advantage; rather, he made himself nothing by taking the very nature of a servant, being made in human likeness. And being found in appearance as a man, he humbled himself by becoming obedient to death— even death on a cross! Therefore God exalted him to the highest place and gave him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, in heaven and on earth and under the earth, and every tongue acknowledge that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.”
Philippians 2:5-11 NIV