Oddbean new post about login | logout Sir, the "free market" isn't what excluded you, the lying manipulating market run by central banks and giant politically connected corporations that own everything and rent it all back to you is what is "excluding you." then they are buying you off with a pittance on the side and claiming they are helping you. Check the original post, we have a central bank that issues trillions every year and direct it through a massive financial and corporate apparatus. Your anger at the "free market" is massively misplaced, because you don't live in one, not even close.
You'll notice I said, "as you people call it." I'm very aware it's not remotely "free." Which is why your concern as to whether or not setting prices is appropriate in regard to a system which doesn't exist, is sus.
Price controls are literally what make it nonexistent. If we don’t understand what is causing our problems and refuse to even point out why things are being destroyed. Nothing gets better. In fact it all just keeps getting worse 🤷🏻♂️ Our only options are to have the govt fix it for us, or opt out. I suggest opting out by buying a money they can’t print.
My son begged me to buy Bitcoin when it was first available. I was poor, but could have scrounged up a hundred dollars, which would have soon changed to a truly life changing amount. But I couldn't understand it at all, didn't know how to buy it if I did have the hundred, I might not even have had a bank account at that time, and I missed the boat.
You haven't missed anything. Money is a measuring tool thats it. Its representative of the time youve invested into providing to others. This isnt about getting rich overnight. This is ablut taking personal responsibility over your own time and energy by no longer placing it in a thing that someone else arbitrarily creates at a whim. You have a biased lens of " i couldve got in sooner" therefore its too late to try now. This is a false dichotomy view to have when it comes to agency over your time. You have to step and say i no longer wish to participate in being stolen from and them telling me its good for me. You can start that journey today. It seems like a small insignificant step today, but over time those small steps add up and become large strides towards the goal youre working towards. You CAN do this, the issue is nobody can FORCE you to do this. You must make decision on your own that i wish to own myself AND my time. The only one that can make that choice is you.
@a29992c8 's point as well as @TheGuySwann 's response made me think. I started a longer response, but it was too much. I was left with this. What, most certainly is comming, will be very painful. I can't stop it. I've found my best shot at getting thru. Im headed that way. I can't save many, certainaly not everyone. I can point at the tidal wave with one hand and at the life boat with the other. Beyond that, me and mine take first priority. I will remember sadly those who drown. I will not feel guilty for what I didn't/couldn't do for them.