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51 sats \ 14 comments \ @0207a984de 24 Dec 2023 bitcoin

It's fine that Bitcoin provides personal financial freedom, but I definitely don't have any desire to fix the world or pass on generational wealth, since I don't have any kids. I don't want to spend money on anything, I don't have expensive tastes. I'm pretty old now, so I'm just going to die with a stack of coins.

Anyone else in the same boat?

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20 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 24 Dec 2023

I follow you regarding generational wealth, but why not make the world a better place? It sounds like a great legacy.

10 sats \ 2 replies \ @0207a984de OP 24 Dec 2023 freebie

I dunno, I guess I never felt anything "positive" about being charitable. In fact, sometimes when being "kind" I feel like I'm doing a disservice to people and robbing them of a learning experience.

255 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 24 Dec 2023

I can see what you mean about some charities, but not all. Like disabled veterans. I don't see most of them needing a learning experience. Kids with cancer who's parents can't pay the medical bills. Again, I don't see a teachable moment there. Also, you don't need to focus on charities. Just holding bitcoin can make the world a fairer place and level the playing field.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0207a984de OP 24 Dec 2023

The fact that both need assistance is a teaching moment for a society and government that has abandoned care for those who need it the most.

By helping them, I free the government from feeling the responsibility or the people from feeling the need to change the government.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Bitman 24 Dec 2023

I'm guessing you're not disputing the idea that we can't help but effect the world in multiple ways.

(e.g. your purchases/work for bitcoin has effected the world. The same would be the case if any of us died taking our seed words to the grave with us).

Instead, I'm guessing that you've not got, nor seemingly ever had a strong Bitcoin 'game plan'...

However, I think such game plans can be a lot of phooey. People take themselves too seriously and, with help of their greater ego, think that they're bigger than they are.

We can point to many of the richest people in the world and see how they've tried to force their will - and seen, in reality, just how puny and ineffectual they really are. There's old joke that says this in condensed for: Give God a laugh, tell them what your plans are!

There's an old story of an ancient King of Britain called King Canute. The popular version of the story is that he said he had so much power and influence that he'd stop the tide from coming in.

This paints the king in everyone's imagination as a very foolish and vain king.

However, the truth of the matter was that he was in fact very wise, clear thinking and humble guy. His act of bading the tide not to come in was in fact him intensionally demonstrating that he wasn't all-powerful and that he was influenced by all of the greater, external factors that we all have no influence over, but instead, are influenced by.

I think the greater thing that we can all do is to look at our motivations in our life, and to hone and refine them.

Perhaps you personally haven't got any clear motivations in your mind as of yet (and of course, may never have) - but this post does show that you're reflecting on this fact, and sharing it with us here.

In the final anslysis, we are all really just little specks of dust that'll be lost and forgotten in the mists of time - but what we've done will forever be ingrained on the one big universal blockchain of life.

Hey, I'm getting kinda deep and philosophical here - that's unusual (I'm usually here as the court jester, not the bard).

But again, the Court Jester being the opposite to the wise man is also another myth worth exploring...

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @343pg 24 Dec 2023

I think you’re leading to some pretty big questions here, and they are irrespective of Bitcoin really.

I say that as let’s imagine Bitcoin didn’t exist and you’d replaced Bitcoin with “money” in that post. It poses the same questions.

Irrespective of Bitcoin we all have to grapple with what gives life meaning to us, how much to save, what to spend on, most importantly how to spend our time, and who to leave an inheritance to after our death, if we have one. I wish I had the answers! Best of luck.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0207a984de OP 24 Dec 2023

That's true

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @harrr 24 Dec 2023

Yeah, but I'll still start a dynasty.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @PlebeiusG 24 Dec 2023

Ill take it off your hands. You're right, you don't need it. It's such a burden, really

0 sats \ 4 replies \ @987654321 24 Dec 2023

Why are you lying? You are here telling us that you don't want to fix the world or spend but you are doing so here. I'm busting your balls as a friend. I'm 53 years old. If you are fishing for data, congratulations on your find.

Here is the truth you are seeking:

You are 100% responsible for your perception of this world. This world is for you CARE and cultivation. Do not waste this life on consuming. You are here too give. In giving you will receive.

If you really understood how many years it has taken for your human life to come to fruition you would not waste any more time in melancholic machinations.

Here is the initiation.

31 sats \ 3 replies \ @0207a984de OP 24 Dec 2023

[Error] Unable to process meaning. (Perhaps too deep for my feeble mind?)

0 sats \ 2 replies \ @987654321 24 Dec 2023

If you made this post then you are reaching out to people who value what you have earned.

Not only do these people value what you have earned but they also have earned the same as you.

Money:

Mon = One Ey = Eye

One Eye is a symbol but not the reality. You hold the keys to energy.

If you share your knowledge here you will not have worked in vain accumulating nothing.

You child is that which you have seeded.

10 sats \ 1 reply \ @0207a984de OP 24 Dec 2023

So by sharing what I have learned and passing it on, I can use my contributions to society as a replacement for a genetic-based legacy?

I don't know how much satisfaction I will get from that, but also, I'm just one random insignificant guy. I don't think anything I do matters.

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @987654321 24 Dec 2023

Moral relativism is a lie. To be a human is one of the most difficult things to happen in the universe. You don't just get to be a human. It takes billions of years of energy to manifest into a human being.

Your legacy is not complete. Your being is still happening. Your ability to create is not finished by any means.