Our parents are the first to condition us. To get us to agree to see the world from their perspective. This conditioning responsibility is then quickly handed to institutions like schools, universities & social media to complete. Each wants your attention & then agreement on how things are (the is) and how things ought to be. They want you to strengthen the shared dream that they are experiencing. Those that make these agreements form part of their 'us', which stand in opposition to the 'them' that don't agree. The insiders & the outsiders. This dynamic even plays out amongst Bitcoiners who tend to be disagreeable by nature. The very thing that we all love requires consensus & yet consensus seems so very hard for us to arrive upon.

I'm seeing this with camera surveillance. Initially people were, at least somewhat, against it but now there's a generation that has grown up with it and they're like "how can we be safe without it?". Fucked up.

It’s all about expectations. If people don’t expect to be free….

It’s absurd innit. I once went to the bank to get money for buying a car. That was in Europe. They looked at me as if I was about to eat children. What do you need this much money for and why is it important. And explain exactly what you will do with it. “Uh I just want to buy a car”. They were like “are you sure and which car is it” and I’m like “this is my money so stop asking me these questions !” I really hope #bitcoin gets wide spread adoption but it’s still a long way ahead. Even my tech savvy friends are difficult to convince and it’s 2024 already …

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how to launder money: 1. sell your sack of severed heads for $500,000 cash. 2. deposit into bank as fast as they'll let you 3. wait 3 months 4. buy $1million house with half debt. lender will ask "source of funds"? 4a. answer "savings" 5. they'll ask for two months bank statements, which you have, showing it's just been sitting around 6. wait a bit 7. sell house. exterminate debt. 8. your 500k is clean banks launder money by design through real estate lending

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Thanks for the thoughts! Left path doomed

It works the same way as when children grow. We don't notice it when around them every day, but someone who hasn't seen them for a while is really surprised. Little changes go unnoticed but add up. Just like 2% inflation haha. Not sure if when we'll get that again though.

In Sweden, you are only allowed to deposit $1500/month so it will take 28 years to deposit.

wow that is pretty f***** up I guess you could get a whole bunch of banks maybe?

Such a good post!

“The really dangerous American fascist... is the man who wants to do in the United States in an American way what Hitler did in Germany in a Prussian way. The American fascist would prefer not to use violence. His method is to poison the channels of public information. With a fascist the problem is never how best to present the truth to the public but how best to use the news to deceive the public into giving the fascist and his group more money or more power... They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power so that, using the power of the state and the power of the market simultaneously, they may keep the common man in eternal subjection. ~quoted in the New York Times, April 9, 1944” ― Henry A. Wallace

Wow!

Can confirm it's bad in Europe, friend of a friend got kicked out of his bank when the bank teller asked him what he needed 3k EUR for and he responded "hookers and blow" in an attempt to be funny. Banks don't have a sense of humour it seems. Funny enough that very same bank has been caught and fined multiple times laundering money for big clients and advising them on how to evade taxes...

Nah, that's just you. I'm still torrenting today, & more.

I don't think any bank in Europe will let you deposit 500000 $ (or €) cash.

I had my bank account blocked for receiving a few payments in one single day for a total of 2000 €. "You have to prove the source of this money" they say. Banks are basically like centralized wallets, they own your money.

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Using cash makes you a persona non-grata in many American retail establishments these days. Not using Facebook also makes me a wierdo. I expect it to get worse.

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Reposted this for my friends on Facebook.

y not? like what is the argument?

I'm so glad you mention #europe here Lyn. Arguably the #EU which was sold to us europeans as a means to achieve prosperity, protect us from thre rise of China and the influence of the US and ensure peace accross the continent has proven to deliver the exact opposite : trade agreements favour lesser regulated imports over highly regulated EU production ; we're litterally in the hands of the US doubling down on it's proxy war against Russia just as the US themselves are reducing their support for Ukraine and we're doing everything possible to remain at war with Russia. This would not have happened had nation states kept their sovereignty which is long gone now. If one pays attention to Mario Draghi, he is litterally calling for the creation of one big state and the abolition of the nation states, a perfect exemple of centralisation. As we can see, centralisation is made ideological to garner support but is pursued by hidden interests. Who pulls the strings in the #EU ? Not the citizens ! Nobody asked me if I was ok with censoring Russia Today and Sputnik in february 2022 when the russians started their special opperation. Nor did the citizens have a say in the escalation of the conflict by EU leaders, of course not, otherwise we wouldn't allow it and cheap gaz might be running from Russia to Germany again, imagine ! Anyway, you are right, power is taken from us not all at once lest we shall all demonstrate but little by little. That's precisely how the #EU was built, over the years. It's now a beauraucratic behemoth that only the most powerful lobbies know how to navigate. It has a lot of characteristics in common with communism : it's centralisation of power, the use of censorship to control narratives and therefore the minds, it's challenging of property rights also : when your real estate doesn't meet a certain grade of insullation you are now banned from renting or selling it. It's high time citizens accross nation states realise we have nothing to gain from giving up so much power. #Frexit #Italexit #Nexit #Spanexit

They would say that you need to prove the source of your funds first.

that's where the two months of bank statements comes in because that's all they ask for

Gradually then suddenly

You should see the cash limits in place across the UK and the ability to stop payments with the sniff of an issue or risk

So true! I recently ran into issues trying to wire money from my bank for the purpose of purchasing hosted bitcoin miners. As soon as crypto was mentioned, the flags went up and they wouldn’t approve the wire. I just ended up paying for the miners with bitcoin. I should have started with that!

Def. Human adaptation is a feature and bug.