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0 sats \ 11 replies \ @atl 19 Apr \ on: What's a book that's worth it's weight in gold? BooksAndArticles
The Sovereign Individual. Still haven’t finished the book, but even reading through the first 100 pages the book details how technology will free us from our oppressors.
“Genius will be unleashed, freed from both the oppression of government and the drags of racial and ethnic prejudice. In the Information Society, no one who is truly able will be detained by the ill-formed opinions of others. It will not matter what most of the people on earth might think of your race, your looks, your age, your sexual proclivities, or the way you wear your hair. In the cybereconomy, they will never see you. The ugly, the fat, the old, the disabled will vie with the young and beautiful on equal terms in utterly color-blind anonymity on the new frontiers of cyberspace.”
Hm, and what do you make of that citation?
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As a younger person, I am unsure as to when or if I’ll be able to start a family or purchase a house. I think that there are many factors such as exuberant taxes and inflation that affect the decisions we make in our everyday lives. With the rise of this cybereconomy, a lot of these factors that hinder my ability to plan for the future affect me less and less. By cybereconomy, i mean bitcoin.
I think that the less power other people have over me, the better. I have a plan for my future and I don’t want somebody else to be able to snap their fingers, change a law here and there, and stop me from moving forward with that plan.
I hope that this makes sense.
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my definition of a fat stack is probably a lot less than you think lol
Stay humble and stack sats! I think that the American Dream is actually achievable if our money isn’t inflated to shit (preaching to the choir). I want to get back to an era where people are able to work minimum wage and still afford a house. This is possible on a bitcoin standard imo.
On a bitcoin standard, people are a little more incentivized to provide value to each other rather than stealing it from one another. Not only does this all make us wealthier, this creates a much better culture as well. To a fellow young person, you’re already wealthy beyond the majority of everyone else, simply because you stack sats. I think it’s really that simple. I get caught up in the noise a lot with issues around mining centralizing, ordinals and now runes, but bitcoin prevails.