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Don’t give up even if things seem daunting and are not going your way. 🤷🏻♂️
Totally agree! There will always be obstacles in life but one has to pull ahead and continue fighting...
My hope is that the smart people adopt the hard money first so that they free themselves from fiat slavery
Me too!
Keep working
People in fiat land are suffering big time and it'll only get worse for them if they stay fiat only
Agree.
🤣 they don’t want to hear it though.
Hehehe I haven't orange pilled anyone since at least 4 years now
Valedictorians are the best of the best slaves to the system. Zero imagination, zero vision. Just docile order takers.
Never give up but also, focus on the right things. This society is fucked and it favors the grifters. People like us found a solution in bitcoin.
Not all but I see your point. It's very hard to break out of the mental prison
Bitcoin is hope. This is not pleb Slop haha
It’s a great tool that makes life financially manageable. I have friends and relatives that are barely getting by. It’s really sad because one catastrophic life event can ruin them. I don’t think people realize how vulnerable they are to losing everything.
They don't even have 500 bucks in case of an emergency lol literally will bankrupt them. We are getting to a point where its almost impossible to survive on a fiat standard; you either have to cut back tremendously or start racking up debt to keep the same lifestyle
Odell posted a stat last week that said the poverty line is not $31k but actually $140k. Who do you know that is making $140k? I don’t even know households making that much. America is a 3rd world country now lmao
If society wants us to contribute to our potential they should reward us for building things instead of rewarding influencers and friendship and treating us like shit.
Those who read the right books are not surprised at all to see we aren't the only ones going Galt.
I tried. I really and truly tried for years. I walked into my reviews with proof that my above and beyond projects saved millions annually and recurring too. I was rewarded with minimum sub CPI never mind real inflation raises while people who contributed nothing got the promotions and big raises.
Now I've quiet quit. I get the same raise. No one seems to have noticed. Not a single complaint. I can't see any reason I'd ever go back to working like that for someone else.
If I decide I need more and want that next promotion I'm not going to work harder. I'll pour that effort into glad handing and brown nosing.
Barring the right idea causing me to set out and start my own business, I can't see any way society will ever see anything close to my productive ability ever again.
I've never been happier.
On the off chance you mean that I'm in a mental prison, allow me to explain a little better.
I'm not doing nothing.
Classic advice for happiness is to not seek external validation. Salary and promotions are external validations.
I still do things, but I do things for me. Things I want regardless of what the world around me values. I study, I learn, I make, I fix. But I do those things for me at a pace I feel I can sustain instead of racing the other try hards at the office.
By not focusing outward I'm growing faster as a person.
It's always been this way. This is the slow extinction of humanity. Ancient people were smarter, stronger, and lived longer ; we are the devolved degenerate fucks that the natural selection process modified by society has produced. In a few more thousand years, we'll have been reduced to an equivalent of chimpanzees.
Why not just go work elsewhere? Better yet, work for yourself.
I've literally been told by an ex girlfriend who wasn't American that she didn't want to be poor, so she didn't want to move to America.
It's obvious to anyone who's not American, but Americans don't get it.
I think we are heading closer and closer to Brave New World & 1984
Hopefully the ones readying this will be on top
The new American Dream is to leave America
I hope so, too, but we most likely won't be. And even if we are, we only got a few more decades of this life, if we're lucky.
Sorry for the doomerism. Bitcoin pulled me out of a really bad black pilled doomerism, but its easy to fall back into it.
It's alright. Happens more often than not lol
I still have hope. Best move rn is to move to a farm and forget about society
I'm "mid career" and work from home which affects the perspective.
Getting anywhere close to replacing my salary working for myself would be a hard multi year challenge with a big maybe at the end.
Working for someone else means working again, taking away all the benefits of quiet quitting to maybe be rewarded or maybe end up back in the same boat getting taken advantage of. You can't know until after you've given them all the effort and they hold all the cards to reward or not on a whim.
Or I can play with and homeschool my kids. I can diy things around the house that save me the money I didn't get in raises. I can read. I can exercise and take better care of my health. On and on.
This is standard fare fiat culture. Don't be demoralized. (Easy to say, I know.) Build beyond it.
I've been on both sides of this. I've been able find a good footing and succeed greatly, in the before times, when things were at least relatively more real. And I've had the system betray me, viscously and unjustly, and take it all away. All told, I'm grateful. When the system betrays you, it sets you free from its compromises.
Nothing is free. Everyone with a cozie sinecure is paying for it in compromises, even if they don't know it. With their soul.
Invest your energy in what is real. It will work.
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Ironic. Similar to how Americans think they live in the land of the free because the government said so 😂
Exactly. Fwiw, I felt a crushing sense of doom and un-freedom when I got off the airplane in America the last time I came back. Its palpable.
Leave without getting fucked by the exit tax. It’s funny how in the mandibles, other countries do their best to keep Americans from flooding in 😂
That's the catch 22... btw the US is the only country that taxes her citizens abroad lol
Anecdotally, at least with the MIT person, that sounds like "child prodigy" territory... What I've found is a lot of those people tend to "burn bright and burn out."
Agree it's pretty disappointing to see "Influencer" as such a viable career path...
Although that isn't going to last much longer.
Don’t you feel the freedom as you walk through tsa getting blasted with radiation X-rays and having your bags searched like a criminal?
I know. So much freedom.
🤣🤣🤣
Sooooo free.
But even without that... There's a tension just among people. Its like the air feels thicker and everyone gets nervous. Its not like that at all in the airports of other countries.
That’s probably from all the chem trails people are inhaling 😂
I wonder if anyone has gathered stats on lifespan and health of airport workers...
But no, it's because people know one some level that they aren't free and they can be black bagged by our insane government at any moment and they are just hoping to escape.
In some regards America has always been a poor country imo. I think we got a little post ww2 bump but that is over and we are returning to the mean.
Disagree. People were wealthy before the fed was established. You could support a family off one income even if you didn’t have a high school diploma.
Yes
I don’t disagree with that but it was a completely different society mostly agrarian and tough monotonous factory work.
The system is broken
You almost sound like Harry Browne
Yeah it was developing but still much much better than any other part of the world. People lined up to come to the US in order to do that difficult work. The American dream was simple: a home with a white picket fence. And the technological innovations that were achieved may not have been possible in other circumstances or may have taken longer to be discovered. Innovations like the steam engine allowed for automation of these monotonous jobs and a rising standard of living. But government always stifles innovation. Their mandates and regulations slow down human progress. And the easiest way for a government to do that is through the establishment of a central bank. A utopic alternate reality where central banks were prevented from being established is one I think about often.
It's not failing, it's winning. Most people will realize this only at their deathbed
I don't know who that is but he sounds like a smart guy.
I think you'd appreciate his views
Yes. Totally
The 1950s boom was an anomaly not the default
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