Spain is very good. No need to be embarrassed, Austria. We still ❤ U.

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The people who are here to be groupies or to get rich quick have been slowly, steadily exiting. There are simply more riches and more famous people, elsewhere. Those of us who have made close friendships here and who genuinely want to build a place for resisting both government censorship and corporate capture for ourselves and for our friends and family, are still here. The signal continues to rise. The network continues to strengthen. This open protocol is spilling over into our real lives and is becoming a living, loving thing.

This is something that (secular) capitalists never really understand. They think humans are motivated primarily by money or other increases in wealth. But humans were productive and ingenuitive and creative for thousands of years before money was invented. People build things primarily because they want those things to exist or because they are doing a favor for someone (or something, such as a diety or some philosophical or political ideal) who wants that thing to exist. In fact, once a person achieves enough wealth and/or financial security to avoid penury, they become increasingly difficult to motivate with money and any increase in happiness when receiving additional monies eventually plateaus. That is why rich people don't want to become richer, in order to be richer. They want to become richer to have more riches than That Other Rich Person, to gain more status within their wealth-obsessed group. That is why they can be the richest person in the world and still be completely focused on remaining #1, even though they already have amassed so much wealth that it isn't even mathematically possible to spend it all. If you live surrounded by comfortably working-class people, who don't rank each other primarily according to their net worth, more money isn't valued as high as something less tangible. Like an increase in free time, a pretty wife, talented children, an impeccably-maintained garden, or some public service. View quoted note →