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You are still in the "being nice with normies" phase... I was there too.
Enough "being nice". Fuck'em'all. Bitcoin is only for the brave.
But I am tired of these stupid normies and what is more annoying is that some people that I do not consider "normies" are the worse bootlickers...
That really piss me off !
I see that differently. I think that I'm in the ignore the normies phase. I don't want to work with normies, I don't really want to work with people that do not ignore the normies either. I don't seek to convert people into a religion. For exactly the reason you're saying: it's frustrating af.
I don't want to be angry at stupid people because my anger won't change them. They'll still appeal to their overlords and try to manipulate the injustice to be on the other guy instead of them, and profit from it. Fuck that.
Instead, I want to focus my energy on those that truly want or need the alternative. Not to get rich, but to be enabled to do great things. Everything I do should ultimately lead to that: free people from the bonds they were born and taught into, or worse: coerced into. But for that to succeed, we need more than just Bitcoin and I too don't have a complete formula for it. It'd be good to get that though.
I want to focus my energy on those that truly want or need the alternative.
Oh you are in the 3rd phase hahahaha
Is hard, really hard. You will see that one day you will ask yourself: why am I doing all of this?
Helping people is a great thing, gives you real hope, only that sometimes, this goes against you. I know is hard to believe this, but is true.
That doesn't mean you should give up... no way! Keep pushing, just be aware of what are you doing and most important with WHO you are interacting...
Some people really do not deserve to be saved.
That may be true. But the nice thing when you get to pick your own mentees, is that bottom line if they failed, it is always your fault. Either because you mentored wrong, or because you picked wrong.
Taking responsibility ultimately makes it easier to cope with failure, because it's controllable.
Yes indeed, I had some "failures" in the past, like you said, picking the wrong "padawan".
Is really hard to teach Bitcoin from zero to "something". And if you pick the wrong mindset, is 10 or 100x times harder.
That's why I always use different scenario to explain it to different mindsets.
But is long time that I stopped trying to talk about bitcoin to random people. Now I just keep my mouth shut,, at gatherings dinners or groups. I simply just listen their stupidities and keep my anger inside.
I really consider that they do not deserve my knowledge and wisdom about bitcoin. I am really different individual IKL than online. Online maybe you consider me aggressive and rude or asshole, but IRL is not like that.
The only dinners and groups I attend nowadays are weddings and funerals. On the former I'll be that guy that drank all the booze, on the latter I am the shoulder to cry on. Clear roles, keeps me free from rhetoric. haha.
I haven't had a mentee in 2.5 years now because the last one (that I helped to zero-to-hero in 2 years, full time) was captured by scammy shitcoiners. My fault, because I failed to help with financial resilience: there weren't enough opportunities in my network to employ them and today, there still wouldn't be. What use are skills if all you can use them for, without being completely doxxed, is working for a bunch of scammers?
I'm not disagreeing with you. But, the fact that tools exist doesn't mean that everyone is ready or skilled enough to use these tools. And Bitcoin is such a tool.
I think that the challenge is not to draw lines and call people names on what we perceive to be the wrong side of that line. I think that instead, the challenge is to help people in a way that is useful to them. Help that will empower them to improve their lives. Step by step, while being careful to not push them into another trap.
I don't have all the answers towards it but I do think that we can meaningfully help people, and it would be good to be able to focus on those that need it most. Side effect of that focus is that those that are thriving in their slavery, will keep doing so for a much longer time.