Oddbean

So today was interesting. We decided not to join our fellow passengers in one of the many tours around the beautiful Island of St. Lucia, but instead walked into Castries, the local town. What we saw was raw, ugly poverty and the reality of a third world economy. I hated almost every moment, trying to avoid touts and hustlers and the dirt and hostility of town life in the Caribbean. This was very useful and clarified my thinking enormously. It is possible to live in an ivory tower in places like this and many choose to do so, but I have always wanted to be part of any community that I live in, and I know I cannot be a part of this community. Tomorrow at breakfast, in the restaurant reserved for suite guests, we will sit next to our neighbours once again and discuss the previous days activities. They had booked a very expensive tour to a “drive in” volcano, a luxury natural mud treatment and a 5 star lunch. We will be honest and explain the miserable day we endured. However trying to explain to them that this is probably the most pivotal day for me and will define the direction of the rest of my families lives for generations to come will be much harder to explain. So I will probably allow them to think they had a better day than us, which they did.

Very wise, Mike. 🤙 I do enjoy the odd relaxing holiday somewhere nice. But I also like to visit different places and hang out with some locals, to try to get a real picture of what it's like to live there. Obviously this is especially important on your current mission, and it's good that you were able to take the time to gain this insight. I hope this helps to simplify your choice, rather than complicate it.

You entitled middle class cunt you. You are amongst the n'th percentile of people on the whole planet who have the most wealth, yet. Oh yet, I cannot put up with this filth. This squalor is not for me. I must congratulate our neighbours in the next suite, how exemplary they were, in luxuriating in their 5 star meals, while we, THE Mr Hatdcastle, famous author, who's sea-faring neighbours "BEGGED" them to return to his cabbin for a signed copy of his book? Who brings a signed copy of their book on a voyage, haha, what a prick. Narcissism at it's very finest.

Now I’m back home I thought I would respond to this in more detail. I appreciate you are probably a bot or have created the npub just to make this one comment, but I find engaging with opposing views informative and helpful in curating my own philosophy and opinions. I’m going to ignore the expletives, but that aside, you seem to not like the fact that I am successful and becoming more so, primarily due to the hard work, time and effort we have all put into studying Bitcoin. Apart from the usual retort of HFSP, I’m not sure I understand this. Bitcoin is for anybody and yes it is not for everybody, but the fact that there is buried deep beneath this npub a human that initiated this, means you are more than capable of learning Bitcoin and NOSTR. Thus you will be stacking Sats and growing your wealth the same as I. I appreciate you may have a smaller stack or have stacked for less time, but that aside we are the same. Therefore you must despise yourself, or perhaps despise the personal wealth you are creating. Aside from the initial work to understand Bitcoin, this requires no effort and so may be unpalatable to a working class ethos, but even so, it is a natural result of putting work into an area that even today, most people dismiss. I am a narcissist in so much as I love and admire myself very much. That is the goal for most people and I have done so most of my life. If you don’t love yourself, then you should ask why not and try to correct that. And yes, I am not middle class, I am very definitely upper class, not by breeding but by success. My father was poor and from a working class background. He became self made through natural talent, luck and hard work. He passed away recently, but you can still purchase both his books on Amazon under Cliff Clarifies by “Cliff Hardcastle OBE” Lastly and most importantly, I am incredibly proud, not just of my father, but of myself. I have put in huge effort and pushed myself to places few seem capable of, or are interested in doing. I am no different to anybody else, except I am focused and find the work of learning and improving immensely rewarding. I also wish to see others improve themselves and am deciding how best to help. I am considering philanthropic routes going forward, but have been disappointed at the results my efforts have made to date. I have tried giving money, but that never works, I have tried offering my time, but that is often unappreciated. I am now trying to decide whether it is even possible to make a significant difference to the world within my lifetime. Your intended offensive post swings me further to the apathy side, but I am determined to find a way to allow the people that most need Bitcoin to be comfortable adopting it. Going forward I am going to make a lot of mistakes and take many failed paths, but I hope to find a way to help as best I can, I normally do. I firmly believe that Bitcoin will either achieve its intended goal of separating the state from money, or the less desirable accomplishment of backing fiat currencies with a hard asset. Once this is achieved, I think Bitcoin has the best chance in the history of mankind to solve poverty on a global scale. This is the part that fascinates me the most and this is the part I intend to put the majority of my focus on. Despite yourself, I intend to fix poverty within my lifetime. I’d rather fail trying, then not try at all. Most projects I attempt, I am generally 80% successful. Watch the next 30 years of my life to see how I get on. If I fail, you are welcome to insult me on my death bed as I draw my last breath.