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🥔 Bitcoiners Talk About Freedom... But 90% Couldn't Grow a Potato

Can There Be Sovereignty Without Real Self-Sufficiency?

We talk all the time about financial freedom. About sovereignty. About independence. About breaking free from the fiat system, from state control, from banks, and from inflation.
But here’s the uncomfortable question:
👉 How sovereign are you if you depend on the supermarket to eat?
You can run your own node, have cold storage, multisig, a hardware wallet... but what happens if the supply chain breaks tomorrow? What if the power grid goes down for weeks? What good is financial sovereignty if you can't even produce your own food?

🔥 The Big Lie of “Modern Freedom”

They sold us the idea that sovereignty means having money outside the system. We believed it. But we remain hyperdependent: on industrial food, centralized energy, and controlled services.
We’re free in the digital world, but still slaves in the physical one.

🧠 Digital Freedom ≠ Real Freedom

Bitcoin is an incredible tool. It’s resistance. It’s monetary independence.
But it’s not total freedom. It’s just one pillar.
Real sovereignty is holistic:
  • Knowing how to grow food
  • Knowing how to purify water
  • Knowing how to generate your own energy
  • Knowing how to defend yourself
  • Knowing how to heal yourself
Without that, you’re just a digital consumer pretending to be sovereign.

đźš© The Harsh Irony

Many here talk about sovereignty but wouldn’t recognize a potato seed if it was placed in their hand.
We laugh at fiat… but we’re still dependent on gas stations, supermarkets, Big Tech, and government infrastructure.

đź’Ł The Brutal Truth Bomb

Can real sovereignty exist without physical self-sufficiency?
Or are we just living in a prettier cage?
This isn’t an attack — it’s an invitation to think deeper. Maybe the real path isn’t just stacking sats… but also learning how to grow a damn potato.

🔥 Your turn.
What do you think? Are we truly free... or just fooling ourselves?
Supermarkets and farmers would still exist under a bitcoin standard...
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Yes but very likely the nature of farming and business more generally would change substantially- more toward value and less debt slavery. Fiat money does imo imbue a corrosive character to the entire economy and societal narratives.
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I agree, and I believe real sovereignty only comes when we are far enough removed from the systems.
Bitcoin is an incredible tool. It’s resistance. It’s monetary independence. But it’s not total freedom. It’s just one pillar.
For many of us, it’s the first step — taking your money out of their hands and gaining full control. It might even be the most important step.
I understand that all the Bitcoiners here who talk about freedom are, in some way, in a process of reaching that sovereignty — so let’s keep talking about freedom, even if we haven’t yet learned how to grow our own potatoes.
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Amén....!!
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I have not bought potatoes for decades. Most of the ones sold in supermarkets are not of good quality. Grew all my vegetables and fruit for many years and only relaxed on that a little more lately...am currently in the process of developing some pasture to produce my own meat- lamb and pork, perhaps beef too. Growing my own food is definitely important to me and potatoes are a great crop to plant to break in new ground...and while not everyone can do it I recommend it, if you can, as a very rewarding pursuit. One of my more rewarding gardening projects was growing potatoes from true seed (not the clones that are sold as 'seed potatoes')- I now have my own unique genetic line of potatoes which are delicious and hardy- they have streaks of purple through the flesh and on the skin a light blush of red. I call them revolution potatoes!
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very interesting, keep it up brother.....!!
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