Another great episode. The Pokémon reference hit home. You’re not wrong. I was collecting to own something and gambling on packs hoping to pull something big to justify it all because it’s not a cheap venture. So glad I opted out of that years ago!

When you don’t have any hope in the future you don’t care about saving for the future.

Keep on teaching brother ;)

What I like most about #bitcoin is that it is a life boat truly available to everyone! But everyone buys at the price they deserve I guess

Where did you find a mall? I thought malls were gone forever

Gen Z seems to lack savings and financial literacy partially due to the understandable financial nihilism you point out. Yet bitcoin is also pretty ubiquitous to them and probably oftentimes considered not very far out on the risk curve. I wonder if statistically that makes them more likely to save in bitcoin, or less likely because they'd rather gamble 100x on shitcoins or options

Gen Z needs Bitcoin to escape consumerism. BUT! They also need to buy and take self-custody with Jade. 😎 Not your keys, not your coins. H/t @Julian Figueroa for the reality check in the latest Exit Manual. View quoted note →

Also toys and luxury goods cost 3x more than they used to (relative to the average salary*), so that's why it feels like it's either luxury poverty or homeless savings. * I made that statistic up.

girl, whatever

corny ahh video View quoted note →

one thing about gen z is if you’d like them to adopt bitcoin, generalizing based on stereotypes is just lame.

You have successfully conveyed to the younger generation exactly what my pre-boomer father was explaining to me when I was a kid.... "if you think any of this is luxury, even any of your richest friends, you are a fool. Just imagine what the elites are reaping on our backs and the lives of others" "false luxury" I remember that day my father pulled the wool away from my eyes about North America and western "civilzation". I just sat there. With a stoopid look on my face.

Bitcoin is hope

100%. People need it.

The only time I'm in Metrotown is to hit up the arcades to play those Japanese rhythm games.

So everyone who doesn't drink coffee, has toys & buys watches is rich?

Could you repeat the rant? I would love to hear it and also for context what you personally considered luxury back then (toys? brands?)

Can't believe I just found you on NOSTR! Love this series 👍

That's often because of Doomerism over the fact that houses are unaffordable. They have given up on trying to own a home and satiate their desires with trivial expenses.

I love your videos! ♥️

Really enjoyed this one, Julian.

Very well made ! Excellent editing, great camera work. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Keep it up Julian. I’ll share this to my mates who still refuse to listen to me🥲 my generation is cooked.

they r learning maximal-ism now

Quote: “When the nervous system is dysregulated, luxury feels like safety.” They sold us pixels and called it presence. Fed us filters and called it self-expression. Gave us algorithms and called it truth. Gen Z didn’t fall behind on Bitcoin. They were engineered to ignore it. See, it starts young. When your nervous system gets wired through abandonment. Isolation. False reward loops. You start reaching for anything that mimics connection. And in a hyperconnected world, that becomes hyperstimulation. Dopamine loops. Plastic purpose. Luxury Poverty is not just a financial condition. It’s a frequency state. It’s the energetic signature of a generation running nervous systems on survival mode. Regulating with plush toys that says “I’m okay” louder than your body ever could. But your mitochondria know. They’re listening. They’re antennas, screaming through the noise, begging you to come back into coherence. This isn’t just about spending habits. It’s about identity. When you grow up algorithm-trained, you think beauty equals value. You think presence equals output. You confuse being seen with being safe. You perform wealth to avoid the void. Because stillness feels like death when your inner child is wired to chaos. Bitcoin won’t save you from that. But it mirrors what you must become to break free. Proof of work. Not proof of appearance. Time preference. Not time distortion. Sovereignty. Not signal chasing. Decentralised value. Not algorithmic validation. Bitcoin is nervous system regulation at the monetary layer. A deep breath in a world of clickbait. A return to signal. To truth. To time. Because the only way out is back in. And this generation? We’re not behind. We’re awakening. One block. One breath. One frequency at a time. #SovereignFrequency #LuxuryPoverty #BitcoinAwakening #ProofOfWork #QuantumBiology #StructuredWater #NervousSystemHealing #GenZReclamation #DecentraliseEverything #SelfOwnership View quoted note →

Great video! Thanks!

“Luxury Poverty” , I like that. 😂 Definitely sounds a lot better than the alternative term most of us Americans from the South use that is racist as hell…😅

*SLAP* “son, why would you spend 10 dollars on Britney Audio tape instead of torrenting it”

Great video!

What a great watch! View quoted note → #siamstr

Zoomer here! And I think you hit the head on the nail! I moved out of multiple “hobbies” to stack extra bitcoin 😎🧡

Perfect

I never understood how he knew so much, before most people had internet access, and he had never used a computer or smartphone in his life except email twice when I helped him. He introduced me to Bitcoin when he was almost 80. Sometimes I wonder if he was Satoshi.

I've been waiting for an excuse to learn how to make GIFs, thank you @Julian Figueroa View quoted note →

This I believe is true.

All the GenZ I know can't afford any of that shit. And no matter how much you save on coffee, its not enough to buy a house. This is no different than every earlier generation wining about "kids these days"

Ur lame, also, that's what stereotypes are, generalizations. If you internalize a stereotype, that's on you.

*you’re