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“These days staying alive is a moral compromise” takes a cliché idea about “doing what it takes to survive” and makes it ethically explicit: survival itself has become bound up with wrongdoing, complicity, or at least the erosion of personal ideals. In the world of *She Rides Shotgun*, that line reflects a setting where violence, corrupt institutions, and criminal networks are so pervasive that remaining untouched is practically impossible, so even self‑defence or protection of loved ones drags characters into morally dubious acts. [1][6][10]
### Moral compromise as default
The sentence implies that the baseline conditions of life have shifted: what used to be an emergency exception (“I crossed a line because it was life or death”) is now the routine state of being. [6][8] It suggests a flattened moral landscape where clean distinctions between innocent and guilty are no longer tenable, because merely refusing to act or refusing to “get your hands dirty” can itself cost lives or enable greater harm. [1][7]
### Context in *She Rides Shotgun*
In the film’s narrative, the father and daughter are hunted by a violent white‑supremacist gang, and every choice they make—fleeing, lying, stealing, using force—edges them further from conventional morality while being framed as necessary to stay alive. [3][5] The line crystallises that tension: protecting a child, preserving family, and reclaiming some kind of future now require entering a space where legal and moral norms must be bent or broken, so “being good” and “staying alive” can no longer fully coexist. [1][6]
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[4] She Rides Shotgun - by Dan Pal - PalCinema Review 
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[6] MOVIE REVIEW: She Rides Shotgun 
[7] She Rides Shotgun - Plugged In Movie Review 
[8] 'She Rides Shotgun' Review: Taron Egerton Is ... - IndieWire
[9] She Rides Shotgun Review: A Fantastic Western-Tinged ... 
[10] She Rides Shotgun: A Gritty Road Thriller with Heart and ... 
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*we have made it too difficult to build anything in this country. We are not building houses, we are not building business premises, we are not building infrastructure, we are not building power stations – we are not even building water reservoirs.
Britain is 4 million homes short of the European average. Similar data for office buildings, retail and hospitality venues is harder to come by, but there has to be a similar gap for those. The road network is about a third below EU average. Electricity output is about a third below the EU average. Britain needlessly deprives itself of some of the key input factors of a prospering economy, much like the pot of a Bonsai tree deprives the roots of the tree the space it needs to grow.
And that, ultimately, is the main problem with this obsession with wealth inequality. It is not just that it lends itself to bad policy prescriptions, like the wealth tax. The bigger problem is the opportunity cost. Every minute we spend talking about wealth taxes and wealth inequality is a minute we no longer spend talking about how to build things.*
*The primary reason people believe in “assets” that protect their purchasing power is because they have never been able to store money in money*
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*Michelson–Morley showed we misunderstood space. Bitcoin shows we misunderstood time. They are inextricably linked since “timespace” in bitcoin is both memory (information) and time and it exposes the deeper issue: physics has no experimental evidence that time is continuous. It assumes continuity because its mathematics requires it. Bitcoin is the first demonstration of a functioning universe that closed, thermodynamic, self-measuring in which time is discrete and quantized.*
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*The World Bank even refers to "monetary substitution," with citizens in some countries starting to use USD stablecoins to the detriment of their own currency.
Usage is exploding in Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America, where populations are seeking a local alternative that is more stable than their national currency.
If a large part of economic activity is conducted using foreign stablecoins, central banks lose control over interest rates, liquidity, and their monetary sovereignty.*
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*it forces you to ask, why we use these labels at all. Are we critiquing behaviour, or simply reacting to discomfort with someone’s beliefs?*
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*the deeper satisfaction comes, not from chasing feelings, but from keeping your word*
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*when we eat junk-food we get full, not satiated*
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Working for the good > waiting for the God candle
*Don't be impatient for Bitcoin to win, and don't wait for your life to become good based on how Bitcoin performs*
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*For a tired, jaded and in many cases impoverished electorate, MMT appears to offer a route out of the era of endless pessimism delivered by the mainstream parties.
But as Panmure’s French argues, even MMT cannot defy the economic laws of gravity forever. One day, sure as night and day, all those trillions of pounds of debts do have to be paid back.*
On Zack Polanski’s Magic Money Tree, economic gravity simply doesn’t exist — The Standard
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"This year, precious metals have captured a significant portion of the usual momentum capital that would have gone into Bitcoin".
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*As implied by the Zero Sum Property, presumably the only way to defeat external subsidy is to mine at a capital loss relative to market return on capital. Similarly it seems that only way to defeat tax, up to and including a 100% tax (prohibition), is to mine beyond the reach of the taxing authority, such as in secret. As with all black markets there is an increased cost to subversive mining. Competing against subsidized mining compounds the cost.
If one accepts the Axiom of Resistance one must assume that both tax and subsidy will be used to reduce the cost of controlling Bitcoin. Using the power to subsidize mining (via tax revenues), states can cause pooling in the region of the subsidy. Once majority hash power is focused the state can use its taxing (regulatory) power in the region to compel censorship.
Therefore in order to enjoy the benefits of a hard currency, it would seem that people will ultimately have to mine at a loss. However, censorship creates the opportunity for others to mine profitably to the extent that people are willing to offset this cost with fees. This black market is Bitcoin's censorship resistance. People pay a higher price for certain transactions, and in order to maintain that higher price the state must also suffer the expense, despite its ineffectiveness.
Paradoxically, this tool works well when money is under attack and poorly otherwise. If there was no internal pooling pressure these cases would be balanced. But risk distribution is essential to subversive mining, and pooling pressure works against distribution. So there is ever-expanding attack surface with no pressure to contract unless effective monetary alternatives are suppressed. The suppression of alternatives raises reward utility to the miner in the region of suppression. The paradox applies as well to centralization pressures.
The expected consequence is that Bitcoin will not be well prepared for attacks because it is financially disadvantageous for people in a low threat environment.*
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*humans convert discipline, focus, and purpose into outcomes that shape our lives and the world around us*
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*a country either has a formalized mafia or they have some other country's mafia, in which case they're not a sovereign country*
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*The beast is driven by hunger ; the hunger of the beast is debt*
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*China's gazillion factories are deflationary : that makes China the enemy. You buy cheap shit from China : debt doesn't get devalued as fast as the corrupt class would like.*
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