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Project MUSE - Why Bitcoin Is Freedom Money muse.jhu.edu/article/970346

465 sats \ 11 comments \ @siggy47 11h bitcoin

Alex Gladstein wrote this for the Johns Hopkins Journal Of Democracy.

According to the Human Rights Foundation, 5.7 billion people live in authoritarian regimes, meaning that the overwhelming majority of democracy activists are living in places where their payments, fundraising, and savings are completely broken.

This is a very comprehensive article. Those familiar with the work of the HRF will already know about many of the examples Gladstein cites.

This paper is directed to a more normie audience, and I think it's very persuasive.

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136 sats \ 1 reply \ @kepford 7h

Gladstein's book is also excellent. I've long said that bitcoin has reached the core audience that is open to it. Liberty minded, tech literate people. The people Gladsein can reach is another audience most of us offend with all our talk of anarchism, individual responsibility, and nerdy tools. We are a tiny minority.

But bitcoin has real utility for most people in the world. They just don't see it yet. In the US most people don't need bitcoin. Not as much as the rest of the world I mean. Yeah, everyone needs it but we are lulled to sleep by cheap credit and entertainment. For some... politics and the left/right distraction. I think those with real day to day needs will adopt bitcoin and the vast majority of the west will be laggards.

43 sats \ 0 replies \ @siggy47 OP 7h

I agree. I have read Hidden Repression and Check Your Financial Privilege. His work, along with all the circular economies popping up in the global south are fostering real adoption.

136 sats \ 1 reply \ @Scoresby 11h

Beneath the shrieking of the Bitcoin Treasury boosters, there does seem to be a steady drumbeat of sensible information about Bitcoin beginning to permeate society:

Bitcoin is an alternative to government money
Bitcoin is not bad for the environment/plays a constructive role in the grid
Bitcoin is useful/valuable

Maybe people will adopt BItcoin via common sense assumptions before they ever get any sats of their own.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @kepford 7h

Its just a matter of time.

432 sats \ 4 replies \ @Coinsreporter 11h

Yes, the article is really very comprehensive for normies, for non tech guys like me. A must read for all imo.

On a side note I'm surprised to see that I shared it already but it doesn't show up in the related top (I'm sure it also didn't show up in the dupes for you).

Something to look into for @ek and co. maybe.

Please don't delete, it should get more discussion which it's due.

41 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 OP 11h

I would not have posted it if I saw it. Oh well.

144 sats \ 2 replies \ @Coinsreporter 11h

No problem sir. This one should get more discussion/engagement what the article deserves. In fact I just put up links, don't have such articulation to suggest why the article is important.

41 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 OP 10h

You are very articulate😀

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 10h

Thank you so much.

Surely I'm nowhere close to the natives of English. I often try to ape, but aping is aping you know.

Although I believe if I ever got a fair environment to learn English, I could do much better. I was raised in rural India. I still remember how my English teacher in the high school used misspell on the board. Whatever English I know, I learnt it through videos, songs and self reading and mostly imitating because I knew it was easiest for me and could provide me lifelong opportunities for earning my bread and butter. So I learned speaking it but my writing remained just ok.

I got my first job as Spoken English trainer at the age of 17 and my pay was better than so many other teachers there. That was then made me learn it theoretically. Then I decided to do M.A. in English Literature. I did that privately (self study) again doing the same job, passed it with 80% plus marks, did M.Phil too and was then recruited in a college a Assistant professor.

To become an assistant professor for English in India was much easier back then...hahaa

36 sats \ 0 replies \ @Entrep 8h

5.7 billion people under authoritarian rule is staggering. I haven’t read the article yet, but it sounds like Gladstein makes a strong case for how financial systems impact activism.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @035736735e 9h outlawed

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