I've seen some opinions on Bitcoiners getting wealthier by providing no value. I can't speak for everyone, but here's how I am getting wealthier by providing no value:
I go into my emergency medicine job and get verbally and physically abused (called names, hit, choked, threatened), serve an ever increasing number of patients with resource increases that don't keep up, do things that fundamentally change who I am in ways that can't be undone (work on dead babies with parents screaming in my ears), get exposed to dangerous pathogens frequently, work nights so someone is there to respond to your emergency (changing this because the pay isn't worth it), act as a social worker because that's my job now apparently, pick up extra shifts to fund my investments, and spend a lot of time maintaining my education and licensing.
Outside of that, I've spent literally thousands of hours studying a variety of topics covering the financial system, government, all sorts of investment topics, technology, philosophy, and other areas.
After all of that, I landed on Bitcoin and chose to store my extra wealth there. It's paying off.
I think some people are just fucking envious. I could have spent my time hating people who figured something out before me. Fortunately, I spent thousands of my hours learning from them instead.
Most of my focus and work in 2025 will be on providing value for those who also value freedom and Bitcoin. #Nostr and #Bitcoin are the way.
Anyone saying people like me produce nothing can fuck right off. I produced value and stored it in Bitcoin and all Bitcoin has done is what it was supposed to do. Full disclosure: a very tiny portion of my stack was bought out of spite using stimi money during Covid. I've since v4v'ed way more than that to devs and producers in this space.
It seems like people are called geniuses for doing this with anything else (Amazon, Microsoft, Apple, etc), but people who do it with Bitcoin are somehow different. It's all built on an internal image of what people will value in the future and betting on that thing. It turns out that people already value Bitcoin. You really don't have to be a genius to take a look around and conclude that the world needs Bitcoin. The fucking up and right chart can be understood by any simpleton.
Envy is evil and destroys people.
Thanks for sharing. Interesting story.
I volunteered in emergency services for 5 years. You’re a hero. Thank you.
I wouldn't call myself a hero, but I used to at least be passionate about emergency medicine. Government, incompetence, and the fiat system ruined that pretty quickly. Working on getting it back though. Maybe posting emergency medical knowledge under an npub would be fun and helpful. We should all be preparing ourselves in many ways. Thanks for your time in the choas.
Great post. It's cool to hear a bit about your work. You've worked hard for your money and deserve to keep it in something that won't inflate away. Holding bitcoin is not extractive, it's preservative.
TBH I agree with the statement ‘Bitcoiners get wealthy by providing no value’ because that is how a neutral money is suppose to work.
Now what is important is that bitcoin, unlike any other form of money, isn’t bias towards any fiat political system that inherently supports war, theft, and extortion on the grandest of scale. Of which pretty much everyone is captured by.
Bitcoiners get wealthy because they use a system of law that steals from no one, supports no wars, and has a fair and open distribution based on computational energy. It turns out that these features alone make it the greatest investment ever simply because it provides value to no individual; but to how the whole system functions, unlike all fiat monies and investments.
Working, earning, saving. Certainly seems like the right approach.
The savings of bitcoiner’s will provide the foundation for the capital formation needed for the following renaissance. This is valuable and will be rewarded.
I earned my neutral money either way.
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