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Fair. That’s really the crux of what I’m saying.
Most people, including me, do not have:
“enough bitcoin to never need more income”
And even with that level of Bitcoin wealth, you’re saying you still rely on banks for most transactions.
So politics and institutions remain relevant.
Bitcoin can reduce our dependence on the system. It does not make the system disappear.
What I push back on is the tendency to confuse greater sovereignty with indifference to what the system does.
So let me get this straight...@optimism makes the argument, you arrogantly tell him “don’t waste your breath” and “move on,” then a few hours later you AI/recycle the same idea into your own post?
That's impressive. Dismiss the guy, steal the homework, then come back and present it to the class. At least zap him a few sats for writing your next post for you.
let me explain, he told me that the content of my post didn't matter because ahh bitcoin. I posted something that said bitcoin doesn't solve every problem and the content of the post is important.
Neither one of you have addressed the content of the post.
Nice rewrite, I never said your other post “didn't matter because ahh bitcoin.” That's @optimism's argument, not mine.
My point is that you told him “don't waste your breath” and “move on,” then apparently found the premise he raised interesting enough to build your next AI post around—just with your own rebuttal attached.
That's actually funnier. Apparently his point wasn't worth engaging with until you needed content.
- I think Bitcoin is a great solution.
- many on here would rather ignore uncomfortable content because in their minds Bitcoin solves everything.
- Bitcoin doesn't not solve everything.
- most people in the country can't afford to stack bitcoin or can't stack enough for it to matter.
That was my post.
give me him credit for what? I said something completely different.
Absolutely- indifference to the system just allows it to do as it wants with no regard for us!
By having alternatives to the system, things like Bitcoin give us a chance to push back but we cannot pretend we are free of or apart from the system unless we want to step outside of it completely.
Very few people could do that even if they wanted to, and even fewer will do that if they can!
I don't want to do that but I do want to apply some pressure on the system including to assert my view that the banks and fiat monetary institutions hold too much private power over our supposedly democratic governments.
My view of Bitcoin is it presents a monetary model that is inherently decentralised and depoliticised.
It is true the fiat monetary system remains very much dominant and has even imo worked to keep Bitcoin assigned to a role that does not threaten its dominance by steering use of Bitcoin away from use as a MoE and much more towards use as a speculative commodity, taxed and tracked and traced.
For myself the more I can store my value and transaction in Bitcoin the better- but its still not easy and the banks and governments remain largely in control of MoE and SoV.
I am not for removing government- imo it is required as long as people mostly want government to organise things and that seems like that will be the case for a long time- probably forever. But bankers having such a high degree of power and control over the political system via patronage, buying-owning our politics is a threat to citizens having adequate say and power.
Now with AI rearing its head these things become even more urgent, yet most people seem more concerned about their speculative gains than freedom and liberty.
I have enough bitcoin to never need more income but still rely on banks for most transactions.
The banks and their sly backroom patronage-control over our governments I see as the greatest threat to our freedoms- maybe I am wrong!
In providing the ability to hold liquidity and wealth free of the banks Bitcoin gives hope of what may be possible...but what is achieved will be determined by people and how they respond.