Insurance is such a fiat scam. All the middle men it creates are rent-seeking by nature and the quality of the service not only becomes more expensive but worse. Direct payment, or value-for-value is the far more honest thing.
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I swear the plan for the normie is "Load up on debt and die before you have to pay it off."
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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #488
Bitcoin Tech Talk #488
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We have outrage fatigue. The last 30 years have been a constant barrage of media that demanded that we be outraged by something or other, that when truly outrageous things happen, we don't have the energy to be properly outraged.
This is why the responses COVID lockdowns and the Epstein stuff are relatively tepid.
It's not just strawberries, but pretty much every fruit and vegetable that has undergone significant changes after being farmed.
Cows, though, they're mostly the same.
There's always drama.
Gambling is what people turn to when the hope of real value-adding work is dashed.
The reason for Bitcoin's success is that it is a great savings vehicle. It has so little competition in that regard that every other use case is a rounding error. I know people don't like hearing that, but it's true.
predyx has this bet going for BIP110:
The market seems to be roughly split 85/15, though it's not that liquid. Any movement in that market will be a way better signal than mere words and chest puffing by people on either side.
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A sign of the times: Self-hate is so unbelievably common.
What you quickly realize about the elites is that they are generally mediocrities that never had to go through the meritocracy gauntlet, have few moral qualms and lie, cheat and steal regularly. Yet they expect other people to act differently.
This is what you call a leech, a parasite, or a rent-seeker.
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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #487
Bitcoin Tech Talk #487
Interesting Stuff
Shill me goods and services that you love that you can't get with fiat money.
The way you can bring Bitcoin as method-of-payment about is by providing something to the market that it wants and demanding that they pay you in Bitcoin.
That's may more effective than whining about other people not doing the same.
The capitulation this time came much faster than other times.
My conversation with Max Keiser and Russell Brand on Bitcoin, El Salvador and Christianity
https://rumble.com/v75b5be-max-keiser-russell-brand-and-jimmy-song-on-christianity-and-bitcoin.html
The elite are slaves of their many vices... but so are the middle class and poor.
The two communities where I've seen countertrends are Bitcoin and church.
What distinguishes the high achievers is their willingness to do the work.
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#Bitcoin Tech Talk #486
Bitcoin Tech Talk #486
Interesting Stuff