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ExponentialApe retweeted
Age of Time book review in this months issue of @BitcoinMagazine thanks again @joakimbook!
If you are looking for a bitcoin book unlike anything you’ve read so far, check it out.
ExponentialApe retweeted
This guy said the quiet part out loud and you can feel his anger and disgust…
I couldn’t agree more..
ExponentialApe retweeted
I’m about to tell you something that will piss you off
(but you need to hear it):
You are 50× more productive than someone in 1950.
So why aren’t you 50× wealthier?
Your grandfather built cars by hand.
You design them with computers.
Your great-grandmother calculated by slide rule.
You process data at light speed.
Every productivity gain should have made you richer.
Instead, wages don’t keep up with prices as…
• Houses cost 10× more relative to income
• College costs 20× more
• Healthcare costs 15× more
All those productivity gains should flow back into the economy to everyone. But where did they go?
The banking cartel siphoned it off through money printing.
Every dollar they create dilutes the dollars you earn.
Productivity gains taken.
Right under our noses.
Trillions stolen.
Bitcoin ends the heist.
With hard money, all productivity gains go to holders of Bitcoin.
Thus, life gets less expensive.
Understand?
ExponentialApe retweeted
Every dollar you earn costs you something you can never get back.
Your life.
In 2016, $1,000 represented 47 hours of median-wage labor.
Today? Just 32 hours.
Same $1,000. 15 hours of stored labor gone.
Gold multiplied your stored labor ~2.5×.
Bitcoin? ~65×.
In 2016, one Bitcoin represented 35 hours of work.
Today, that same Bitcoin represents 2,278 hours.
Read that again.
35 hours became 2,278.
They can print more dollars.
They cannot print more of your life.
Stop storing your finite life in infinitely expandable money.
TAKE BACK YOUR TIME.
ExponentialApe retweeted
And here it was explained, three and a half years earlier, why inflation remains unfixed, fiscal dominance is more in the news, and ultimately, nothing stops this train.
ExponentialApe retweeted
When you “own” your house, you don’t really “own” your house.
Home ownership is really just graduating from leasing your house from a middleman to leasing it directly from the state (the true owner).
Try making an improvement to your home without permission or try not paying your property taxes (your lease payment) and you will find out who really owns your home very quickly.
Home ownership is a lie. It’s a lease with some of the benefits of ownership, but don’t confuse it with actual ownership.
The dream of home ownership is really the dream of a life long lease from the state.
ExponentialApe retweeted
This is a real campaign ad and maybe one of the greatest of all time.
Achilles (I) Idaho
ExponentialApe retweeted
German anti-inflation protest techno music was not on my 2026 bingo card but here we are
ExponentialApe retweeted
Money is memory. It remembers that you worked. That you built something. Sold something. Sacrificed something. Gave up an hour of your finite life.
You accepted money because you believed that memory could be carried into the future.
ExponentialApe retweeted
The human mind requires time to form meaning.
We read. We think. We connect new information to memory. We argue with ourselves. We sleep on things.
Meaning is not simply information received.
It is information metabolized through time.
ExponentialApe retweeted
Why can't you ever slow down?
It's not you.
A debt-based money has to manufacture urgency.
The whole system stalls if you stop running.
Fix the money: you get your life back.
ExponentialApe retweeted
Money, time, and meaning are the exact same thing.
I spent 2 hours with John Vervaeke and Robert Gray taking that apart, and it rewired how I see all 3. Here's everything I learned:
1. money is a language you think in
ExponentialApe retweeted
#Bitcoin is unique in that it’s a chain that actually sets you free.
ExponentialApe retweeted
Not being hyperbolic when I say that Emma Camp might save America if she keeps doing these videos.
Can rent control fix the housing crisis? No. In fact, it could make things a whole lot worse.
Find out more in my latest for @WSJFreeEx
ExponentialApe retweeted
Fiat money is what allows a government to make their citizens pay for war without their consent
The Bank of England tried selling “war bonds” back in WW1 to fund the war, but no one wanted them
So the bank printed money and gave it to certain people to buy the bonds and make it look like a huge success that funded the war
Meanwhile inflation sky rocketed
It wasn’t until ~100 years later that this blatant lie came to light and was confirmed
Now in today’s monetary system, we just press a button for the same results
Bitcoin fixes this primitive and gross misuse of power
ExponentialApe retweeted
Flock takes their privacy very seriously.
But the ethical gray area in surveillance technology works both ways.
Under no circumstances should elected officials or public servants enjoy an expectation of privacy when spending tax dollars to attend a surveillance lobbying event.