I have this on my head in the last months, it's funny how once being a bitcoiner as a kind of a nerd thing nowadays especially around nostr there's this new culture with many good aspects like raising a family on the countryside and so on, eating grassfed meat and driving an old petrol engine. My thoughts are around transportation, taxes, and how the bitcoiner culture influences that, for example driving an old toyota can be a great deal as there's practically zero hardware tracking you like google auto or apple car. But depending where you live, even having a car means higher costs. In europe for example in many countries one can use trains which are very convenient and bycicle or electric scooters, it's harder when you have a family, but if you life in a small town and can go everything by walking or bike it's a great thing to remain healthier without the gym and not having a car. If you manage to live without a car, that means having a much lower time preference, maybe having another baby with that money, but also paying much less taxes and having to work less and more time with family and friends. The transportation industry, also the energy industry are the largest industries in the world, which if we manage to consume less, we pay less taxes to the state. Do you have any ideas of how can we improve transportation, maybe creating solutions more outside the system?
You touched on a good subject. Because bitcoiners are not only those who have large funds in btc and are rich. The bitcoiner is the one who believes in the bitcoin project and everything that revolves around it, decentralisation, privacy, financial freedom, etc. And in the meantime that he accumulates satoshi, he tries to survive by choosing alternative paths to the ones that society has always laid out for us. Car sharing could be useful, there are many apps in various cities, it reduces costs and environmental impact. Or get together with neighbours or colleagues or other parents and take turns sharing cars, if you can match schedules. Those who don't have a car can offer another favour in return, such as mowing the lawn or similar.
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Interesting idea, with family friends and coworkers it works fine, but then there's apps like blablacar that require some sort of kyc, it would be great to have a foss solution for it, maybe with reputation from nostr.
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Yes, unfortunately the apps require kyc. Indeed, it would take an open-source solution, possibly integrated with Nostr to manage reputation without sacrificing anonymity and without intermediaries. That would be perfect! Maybe we'll get there..
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just a matter of time
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I think making walk/bike friendly cities. Cars and huge parking garages are a drain on city infrastructure. So much space is wasted.
Urban sprawl and suburban live is not very efficient. Better planning that thinks long into the future can lower the need to travel far for goods and services