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PizzAndy🍕 7 months ago
I left my job to pursue Bitcoin endeavors. The opportunity cost of *staying* at my job was becoming far too great. I'm not able to stack as hard right now, but the whole reason I stacked in the first place was to do precisely this. Over the long haul, I believe I will be able to stack more, and do so in a way that is more fulfilling. We all talk about the ethereal goals of 6.25 BTC, or 3.125 BTC, or whole coin status or wherever the goal posts are now, but no amount is worth more than the freedom of your time. My mom worked a job she didn't like my entire life, lived very reasonably, stacked assets real hard the whole time, and then got cancer. Within two years she was gone and never got to do the things she put off. I refuse to let that happen to me. We bitcoin precisely so that we can dictate money for our time, not dictate our time for money. Just remember that. You only get one life.
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corndalorian corndalorian@primal.net 7 months ago
“We bitcoin precisely so that we can dictate money for our time, not dictate our time for money. Just remember that. You only get one life.” 🔥🔥🔥 nevent1qqs0g4skaxlymhuxhaa27e4jmtp0luuuk74qxg8jdts0f54pp43xqzqpzemhxue69uhky6t5vdhkjmn9wgh8xmmrd9skc9atwfr
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Kristen kristen@nostrcheck.me 7 months ago
Goodness. @PizzAndy🍕 just summed up my entire life view in one concise note.
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I left my job to pursue Bitcoin endeavors. The opportunity cost of *staying* at my job was becoming far too great. I'm not able to stack as hard right now, but the whole reason I stacked in the first place was to do precisely this. Over the long haul, I believe I will be able to stack more, and do so in a way that is more fulfilling. We all talk about the ethereal goals of 6.25 BTC, or 3.125 BTC, or whole coin status or wherever the goal posts are now, but no amount is worth more than the freedom of your time. My mom worked a job she didn't like my entire life, lived very reasonably, stacked assets real hard the whole time, and then got cancer. Within two years she was gone and never got to do the things she put off. I refuse to let that happen to me. We bitcoin precisely so that we can dictate money for our time, not dictate our time for money. Just remember that. You only get one life.
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Justin B 7 months ago
I just posted this before I saw your comment. When you think philosophically about the time you have left on earth you will inevitably conclude that it is the most precious and valuable asset you could ever have. Almost no one would trade their lives with Warren buffet even though he has access to more money than the human brain can comprehend. We can however comprehend that he has way less time than almost all of us. The human brain understands that our time is finite. When you relize that you exchange your time to receive a unit of value that rapidly dwindles into the future because the unit is infinite, you should begin to get curious. Governments and central banks aggressively manipulate the unit of value your past efforts were exchanged for without giving you any of the previous time back. It is the ultimate bait and switch technology. Yet somehow because the number on the unit of value didn’t change we can’t quite understand how we were intrusively violated. We know that its power has been drained but we are somehow accepting of it because on the surface the number remains the same. When you realize that you can’t outrun something infinite with a finite resource you are forced to play a new game anchored in reality.
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npub1xskw...dhy5 7 months ago
Damn, that touched my heart. My mom passed away the same way. I miss her a lot, and I didn't get to spend much time with her during my childhood or adolescence because she worked so hard.
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