When did we accept that the only way to use our time is to maximize the remuneration for it?
To pass off child care just because “I can make more working,” or to have someone mow because, “I could make more elsewhere” denies that a well-rounded expertise is valuable in itself, or that your participation with an activity brings value to it. Maximization of returns at the cost of all else is a neoclassical economist’s wet dream that has slithered its way into the common sense of every home.
The pervasive dialogue ever circulating about US National Debt exists in part to prepare the public consciousness for the never-ending war against social services. Austerity measures serve the rentier class and the corporations by shifting value from the public sector into the pockets of the few. The common sense thus becomes that public debt is bad, and that private debt is acceptable. And so Americans welcome the loss of the public-service aspects of government, and a neutered central power remains only as a managerial engine for corporate profiteering
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https://www.whonix.org/wiki/Donate)In Plato’s cave, men were chained and spent their lives interpreting the shadows on the wall… mere representations of the moving figures behind them. Unable to turn and face the truth, they lived by myth and prejudice. Only when their shackles loosened and they were free to turn about and examine the world hidden behind them were they liberated from their cognitive bondage.
Bitcoin is loosening chains and liberating people from an imposter existence of debt servitude, the exploitative use of capital, and oppressive governments.
If anybody has a favorite book on a topic, or even a favorite book, chances are that they haven’t read enough books.
The answer to that question should always be “it depends.”
It seems that the most liked/zapped posts are world-view-affirming posts. We like to hear things that confirm what we “know.”
The wise nostriches are more inclined to present unpleasant data, and to receive unwelcome critiques
Spending millions of public money in pursuit of a submersible owned by a private company that skirted safety precautions and regulation in pursuits of faster profits.
“Privatization of profit and socialization of risk. That’s called capitalism.”
-Noam Chomsky
We are Bitcoiners because the banks had the power to neuter the government’s over site mechanisms and deregulate themselves.
To cheer “deregulate everything for a free market” is to extol the very dangers that got us here.
To allow capital to run free without any sort of oversight leads to public safety disasters: Triangle Shirtwaist fires, Norfolk Southern spills, and … submersibles with inadequate safety communications systems. Companies will always skirt safety decisions in pursuit of profits, and “deregulation of everything” is a mythical virtue that only serves the billionaire class.
“In a 2019 press release, OceanGate explained why it hadn't 'classed' the Titan vessel.
"Bringing an outside entity up to speed on every innovation before it is put into real-world testing is anathema to rapid innovation," the statement said.””
“The National Security State is an instrument of class warfare, organized and designed to permit an elite, local and multinational, to operate without any constraint from democratic processes. This allows the bulk of the population to be treated as a mere cost of production.”
The Real Terror Network
Edward Herman
Bitcoin goes down, I get excited.
Bitcoin goes up, I get sad.
Such is the counterintuitive reasoning for a guy who exchanges “money” for a weird long number.
I’m cleaning some miners tonight, so that tomorrow our brothers have a better chance of being free of financial tyranny.
Independent journalism to us means independent economics. And the core of that, why we think it’s possible, is the internet…and it’s the power of the web to raise money directly from people.”
Gore Vidal.
No doubt in anticipation of Bitcoin-Nostr symbiosis
FDIC: Federal Deposit Insurance Corp.
What it says:
“Backed by the full faith and and credit of the United States Government”
What it means:
“Faith is belief without facts, but we promise to pay you back using the debt we push on others”
Abraham Lincoln told us that threats to America would never come from abroad; they can only come from within.
From Lincoln’s Lyceum speech:
“How then shall we perform it?—At what point shall we expect the approach of danger? By what means shall we fortify against it?—Shall we expect some transatlantic military giant, to step the Ocean, and crush us at a blow? Never!—All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.
At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide.“
Our social and economic shortcomings may be defined by careful analysis, deconstruction, and discussion. Dog-whistle politics presented as a succession of discursive phases…Nazi, Communist, Fascist, Racist, Big Government…which aims to draw support by reducing any argument into slogans, vastly undermines our discussion of problems. When I see this rhetorical trick within an argument, those looking to seriously evaluate a topic lose interest
I think people get caught up on technical characteristics and reserve currency conversations. This is probably because many of us are all rich white guys, and tech and preservation of wealth is what is likely to interest us.
But Bitcoin is not just a technology. It is a means of communicating value over time and space, in a way that has never before been possible. The reason it is exciting is not because we can secure our progeny 1000 years from now, nor because we can prove to each other that it can never be changed. It is exciting because the majority of the world is unable to store work-value in a form that cannot be confiscated or inflated away, is unable to send value without fees, is unable to share value without permission, and is unable to relocate without landing, destitute and poor, on the other side of a border.
Bitcoin is not for us. As beneficiaries of US hegemony, our system isn’t all that bad right now. Our banking system exports trillions in debt all over the world in exchange for natural resources and labor. The recipients of debt…IOU’s that cannot be repaid with any goods…are the sad externalities of a system with a set of characteristics that Bitcoin solves.
Drinking a beer, reading an excellent book, and watching my bees collect pollen.
