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As frustrating as orange-pilling can be, I still find that I have a high-ish success rate among the millennial and younger crowd.
Most boomers are lost. Trying to explain the concept of money to them, let alone scarce money, is often a lost cause. Most seem to either trust institutions or cannot get over the gold/silver hump.
The younger crowds seem to be less prone to staying brainwashed. Additionally, occasionally "fads" happen inside schools that many people participate in. This has me thinking about targeting that crowd. The idea of being able to have a "bank account" without permission, exchanging value with peers, and being paid for work (even micro jobs) while not having to rely on parents.
They could start with custodial services, Uncle Jims, or sub-accounts if their parents are Bitcoiners and move to self-custody as they learn.
Of course, getting others to pay them in Bitcoin, who don't already have Bitcoin, is another hurdle. For this, I've thought about having them promote Strike to their parents to pay others if the parents aren't orange-pilled yet. Even better if a "club" of sorts could be started and then the idea might be promoted more easily to help support kids who might want to do this.
I'm just talking here. I'm wondering your thoughts about this - negatives, positives, whatever. I refuse to stop spreading the word, no matter how difficult it may be sometimes.
21 sats \ 1 reply \ @zapsammy 8h
wife and i have introduced her sister's boyfriend to bitcoin; we showed him how coinos works and how to get giftcards on bitrefill; now he has an account with rizful that he can use as well; we have also given him a satscard to load; additionally, he receives sats for driving and photography from us; this guy has definitely not been "orange-awakened" but i wud consider this light orange-pilling; he cannot yet have a Strike account, and it's only a matter of time until he goes full bitcoin, because the people acting as his parents are very controlling; he has seen modest price runs, but probably does not see the full potential of this technology yet; regardless, he is getting a super-smooth introduction to bitcoin in a fun way, thanks to my relentless training in the art of bitcoining; oh yea, he works at McDonalds... he is the living meme;
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he is the living meme;
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Before you can use the best store of value, you need value to store in the first place.
We should be trying harder to bring back child labor. If they spend their best years trading time for money, maybe they'll think twice about what SoV to keep their money from melting long-term.
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Yes. Child labor outside of "legal" standards. This is essentially what I'm getting at. Kids would have a much easier time getting microjobs like lawnmowing, setting out dumpsters for pickup, general cleanup, etc. I would gladly pay kids some sats to do things like this.
The older of the <18 crowd, if they have the skills, could expand on that.
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202 sats \ 1 reply \ @nullcount 10h
I don't think jobs are the problem. A rebranding to "microjob" seems pointless. Parents can pay for chores, but honestly, I think paid chores only sustains the dependency problem.
Real jobs exist already, I saw a couple of 16yo kids mowing lawns this weekend. Respect the hustle, they could probably make more than their school teacher's salary in one summer if they had enough clients.
There's also more opportunity than ever to be entrepreneurial, leveraging online to find a market for your hobbies. Maybe kids are moving towards this form of "employment" and it just doesn't show up in the jobs data yet.
More likely, I think kids are delaying work because they have parents who are overly eager to support them well into their 30's.
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It seems like you think you're arguing against me, but you're saying the same thing I'm getting at - entrepreneurialism.
Getting paid to put out a lazy/forgetful adult's dumpster every week or general cleanup (as in construction sites, "janitorial" work, etc) is just as entrepreneurial as mowing lawns. Kids have to start somewhere since they have no skills. They could just as easily expand on those skills as @Scoresby lays out here: #1197575, including within their own friend groups.
Also, there is no rebranding. "Microjobs" is just a word to mean "smaller jobs". You'll never get a concrete company to repair a tiny portion of a driveway/sidewalk just as you'll often not find a landscaping company to mow a 1/2 acre lot twice per month without significant costs, but a skilled young person who understands Bitcoin has a better chance of being called upon.
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The unemployment rate for young people is near all-time-high
because young people are LITERALLY DUMB
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 8h
here is a real video that went viral a while back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2eyq9qTOQY
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Well, that's a parody video, soo...
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I hope people will understand this meme an read my article about https://darth-coin.github.io/general/natural-law-bitcoin-en.html
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trivium, quadrivium, the 5 senses, and knowledge of what is right vs wrong; ... i am working on a pamphlet about that... practicing my spiel on various people; Mark Passio had a lot of things correctly, but his 300 podcast episodes are too much to swallow, i need to condense that into a handful of 21 min episodes;
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21 sats \ 1 reply \ @DarthCoin 8h
my article about natural law and bitcoin is exactly condensing all the content into the most important things. All Mark Passio's videos are for more deep knowledge, no need to watch them all.
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somebody's gotta keep diving deeper... and not lose sight of the level ground; actually, if one removes the callers, rants about how stupid people are, event announcements, intro music, technical interruptions, then the total amount of Passio's content is only about 300 hours, i think
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I forgot to mention that Bitchat and ecash seem to be a great way to get kids involved whose parents aren't quite ready to give their kids full internet access.
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