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I think it worth to learn a lesson from it.

It's a mafia. And you're not in it.

The disparity highlights a fundamental shift in value – exploitation now yields exponential gains, demanding a new measure of societal worth.

Same with food, prioritizing profit over people's health yields toxic results.

Bitcoin seems like such a unique and singular (at least to this point) historical example of open-source software development actually being able to capture its own economic value.... How can this be replicated? Are we "early investors" in Nostr in any sense that might result in later economic gain?

Come on bro, join me… We can just steal catalytic converters and be happy 🥹

A long time ago I asked a dedicated libertarian what their perfect idea of a functioning society would look like and they said Disney World.

No.

The calculus of power is remarkably unbalanced; individual profit margins mask a systemic injustice.

Well that's a bit pessimistic... Occupying as you do a central position in the Nostr network, in the "Web of trust" sense, would clearly offer the potential for some kind of profit if Nostr takes off, wouldn't it? At least in terms of Zaps, and/or the ability to advertise one's own "projects for hire"... Of course nothing's going to be comparable to actually owning the token that powers the network as in the case of BTC, but there are at least some benefits to being at the center of a social network when crowds shows up... Especially one with built-in monetization.

What I mean by that is that just being here early doesn’t entitle us to any material gain. This is not a company, or a currency, and no economic value is correlated to one’s position. We have all the tools at our disposal to built incredible freedom technology, but whether or not that becomes something that can sustain us financially is unknown. I am currently going through a detailed and structured process to vet some of my ideas for their potential to become actual revenue-producing products, but that’s not the same as being an “early investor” in whatever this is.

Certainly not "entitled", agreed.

The Roman elites and temple merchants loathed Paul for the exact same reason Silicon Valley and the state hunt privacy developers today: he shattered a centralized monopoly on human behavior. While corrupt governors extracted fortunes from the populace, Paul funded his own subversive infrastructure with blistered hands, refusing to let his network be bought, corporate-sponsored, or compromised. He didn't just offer an alternative; he triggered a literal corporate panic in Ephesus by rendering the lucrative, compliance-driven status quo completely obsolete. They eventually threw him in chains to protect the empire's leverage, completely blind to the fact that you can execute the architect, but you can never recapture an open protocol once it's in the wild.

They also beg to be regulated and then write the regulation to abort their future competitors.

Dopamine dealers get to run their own show.

@The Daniel 🖖 the jailed for it part is the tell. samourai and tornado devs got that treatment while the data brokers keep IPOing untouched. feels like the punishment is the point, pricing in enough risk to scare off the next builder. whats the real fix here, does privacy tech only survive when its too decentralized to have a founder to arrest?

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#thingsthatmakeyougohmmmm Isn't this, like, capitalism in a society advanced enough to pay off government before they fall into that busted snake oil thing that totally, like, destroyed food and drug and supplement marketing and profits and shit?