Capitalism or a free market economy is the natural state of things. It is the default, not an upheaval of a different order. It is every other system, Communism, Socialism, Corporatism, etc which are forced modifications to the natural order.


The Tao Te Ching was libertarian like 2,500 years before libertarianism became a thing.

Chapter 75: Stephen Mitchell translation:

When taxes are too high,
people go hungry.
When the government is too intrusive,
people lose their spirit.

Act for the people's benefit.
Trust them; leave them alone.


Argentina is moving up my bucket list of places to visit. Quotes from Milei’s speech at UN today.

“The UN has become a multi-tentacled Leviathan that seeks to decide how each nation should live."

"We reject the 'Pact for the Future'—it is nothing but a socialist blueprint for control."

"Freedom is the only path forward for nations; we must resist any system that curtails it."

"Socialism designs a world it can't achieve, and when it fails, it represses the people."

"Argentina will lead an agenda of freedom, not submission to globalism."

"We must empower individuals, not centralize power in bureaucratic institutions."

"Freedom, free markets, and individual rights are the pillars of a prosperous society."

"We reject the collectivist agendas that destroy wealth and enslave nations."

"Austerity and economic discipline are the only roads to true independence."

"Long live freedom!"


All positivist law, which grant positive rights such as the right to health care or housing, or food, inevitably lead to some form of slavery. This is because such goods and services must be provided by someone.

No positive rights exist, they are a political fiction to get support from compliant people.


Stay humble. Stack sats. Provide value to society. Repeat.


good morning nostr, get your priorities in order 🫡

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The human mind is “amazing”

Imagine watching what happens to other nations and their people as their currencies lose value…..yet failing to connect the dots to the consequences of it in your own country.

Just “imagine”

#Bitcoin
#Nostr.


Minimum wage is a product of inflation. When wages keep debasing, people demand intervention. It's a stupid intervention, to be sure, but it's one that politicians can promote to get votes.

Unemployment is a product of wage controls. Little known about the Great Depression is how Hoover and Roosevelt both lobbied large companies to keep wages high. Wages need room to come down during downturns. Free markets need normal supply and demand, not artificial ones imposed by elites that think they know better.

Both of these things result in a more socialist policy where the government controls far too much of the economy and ruins it. In the end, the newly printed money creates these perverse incentives.


JStark will never be forgotten. The idea is greater than the man.

His influence continues and will never stop.


People still really haven't appreciated how bad the car thing is. Or the phone thing. They think they do, but they don't. The full range of capabilities has yet to be used routinely — companies and states are both trying to keep it beneath the waterline. The public is intended to be unsure what it is that they're looking at, and why it matters. It is the news report playing in the background of a disaster movie. It is the half-glimpsed monster from a horror reel — implied, but never fully shown.

History is still going to look back at this period with enormous bewilderment that we did not do more to stop what is coming. The signs were there.

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Most people have been trained just to react to what other people are saying/doing, instead of having opinions they've derived themselves.

This is why most people are so incredibly boring.


We are told we need mass surveillance to protect civil rights.

We are told we need censorship to ensure free speech.

We are told we need bank bailouts to rescue the free market.

We are told we need compliance to protect science.

We are told we need rigged elections to save democracy.

We are told we need forever war to secure peace.


good morning nostr, freedom tech is hope 🫡

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I unironically believe bitcoin is designed to pump forever.

scarce, fixed, amount of bitcoin

the record of which cannot be changed

infinite humans

the math seems pretty straight forward


- reddit leadership goes to war with third party clients
- top reddit mods shutdown their subreddits in protest
- reddit ceo moves to reduce the power of reddit mods

nostr fixes this


Stacks is a premined scam that implements a forever ICO model - bitcoin holders send bitcoin to stacks holders to receive stacks tokens.

Stack promoters use affinity marketing and misleading terminology to hide this fact. Naive retail users are their target.

https://i.postimg.cc/brF6nvHB/stx.jpg

Due to the premine, founders and investors receive the majority of the bitcoin sent into the forever ICO which they then use to advertise the scam to more naive retail users. Incredibly predatory.

https://i.postimg.cc/02Mn3PC9/stx2.jpg


Many people like to use Bitcoin Pizza Day as a platform to discourage bitcoin spending but any money you have spent throughout your life could have been sats stacked instead.

We should all consider reducing our expenses to maximize the amount of sats we save long term but personally I would rather spend bitcoin than shitcoins like the dollar.


Life is short and fleeting. Our time is the only thing more scarce than bitcoin. Get your priorities in order. Make it count. Stay humble and stack sats.


no idea on timing but the prudent move is to prepare for hyperinflation because it seems we are well on our way toward that reality

when it happens the most tradeable asset in the short term will be ammo until we transition to bitcoin based local economies


You can leave securing the blockchain to proof-of-work miners who have to continuously compete.

Or you can leave them to proof-of-stake rent-seekers who don't have to do very much to have the same influence and income forever.

Tough choice...


Welcome!