Excellent post, Gabe. And thanks for liking my comment on Sarah's. My feeling about both issues, bodily health and communications hearth, is that it has to start by creating the supplemental economy that supports it locally.
I don't know if you saw my conversation with Mathew on the G&E thread. I really liked your comments about scams and theft, and whether Bitcoin prevents them. Next week, after my daughters are gone, I'm going to post an episode on Bitcoin vs. the Caret, comparing the two systems. They serve different purposes, of course, and aren't redundant or mutually exclusive. But there's a hell of a lot of energy being put into the former and mostly just me sorting through the latter. So my goal would be to change that.
I also don't know if you've seen my first chapter that I posted from the book. So far it's gotten mostly men and one woman who all want to jump to arguing about the solution. My first book was going to be about the solution, when I realized that my process of discovering and defining the problem needed to be the first step. So if you happen to be at the first chapter yet, I could use a comment there that I could like--so far I have one ;-)
But none of this is meant to defer planning your hearth. I have no doubt that our connection isn't accidental and that you and your perceptive, knowledgable and passionate grasp of this aspect is absolutely key to how it's going to happen.
I'm really looking forward to your Bitcoin vs the Caret episode! As somebody immersed in the cryptocurrency discussion for far too long, it seems many people aren't even aware there are analog / alternative methods to decentralizing finance. I really appreciated the important distinction you drew between a tool for protecting wealth and something that fundamentally alters the game. As I outlined, I'm very pessimistic about Bitcoin still having potential for the second option. In fact, since the discussion, I've looked deeper at what Michael Salor's Microstrategy gambit is...and I'm starting to think Max Azzarello was really on to something... (https://theponzipapers.substack.com/p/i-have-set-myself-on-fire-outside)
Thank you Gabe! I'll check out that link. I think another important distinction is system change vs. what can be done within the existing system. What I find are wild extremes. Either people think it's futile to change the system or they think someone's going to give them the power to start bossing everyone around, ordering land redistribution, sending everyone back to their countries of ethnic origin, etc. For those who take system change seriously, you're looking for the smallest change possible that takes away from the smallest group and makes the biggest and most irreversible slow change over time. Not a bloody revolution ;-)
I'll think of you as my target audience when writing that, which is already in process. That way, if there are things I'm missing about Bitcoin, someone can explain them to me instead of telling me to go do my own research so I can prove to myself why I'm wrong.
Excellent post, Gabe. And thanks for liking my comment on Sarah's. My feeling about both issues, bodily health and communications hearth, is that it has to start by creating the supplemental economy that supports it locally.
I don't know if you saw my conversation with Mathew on the G&E thread. I really liked your comments about scams and theft, and whether Bitcoin prevents them. Next week, after my daughters are gone, I'm going to post an episode on Bitcoin vs. the Caret, comparing the two systems. They serve different purposes, of course, and aren't redundant or mutually exclusive. But there's a hell of a lot of energy being put into the former and mostly just me sorting through the latter. So my goal would be to change that.
I also don't know if you've seen my first chapter that I posted from the book. So far it's gotten mostly men and one woman who all want to jump to arguing about the solution. My first book was going to be about the solution, when I realized that my process of discovering and defining the problem needed to be the first step. So if you happen to be at the first chapter yet, I could use a comment there that I could like--so far I have one ;-)
But none of this is meant to defer planning your hearth. I have no doubt that our connection isn't accidental and that you and your perceptive, knowledgable and passionate grasp of this aspect is absolutely key to how it's going to happen.
I'm really looking forward to your Bitcoin vs the Caret episode! As somebody immersed in the cryptocurrency discussion for far too long, it seems many people aren't even aware there are analog / alternative methods to decentralizing finance. I really appreciated the important distinction you drew between a tool for protecting wealth and something that fundamentally alters the game. As I outlined, I'm very pessimistic about Bitcoin still having potential for the second option. In fact, since the discussion, I've looked deeper at what Michael Salor's Microstrategy gambit is...and I'm starting to think Max Azzarello was really on to something... (https://theponzipapers.substack.com/p/i-have-set-myself-on-fire-outside)
Thank you Gabe! I'll check out that link. I think another important distinction is system change vs. what can be done within the existing system. What I find are wild extremes. Either people think it's futile to change the system or they think someone's going to give them the power to start bossing everyone around, ordering land redistribution, sending everyone back to their countries of ethnic origin, etc. For those who take system change seriously, you're looking for the smallest change possible that takes away from the smallest group and makes the biggest and most irreversible slow change over time. Not a bloody revolution ;-)
I'll think of you as my target audience when writing that, which is already in process. That way, if there are things I'm missing about Bitcoin, someone can explain them to me instead of telling me to go do my own research so I can prove to myself why I'm wrong.
Couldn't possible agree more!! Well said.