1/2 “Every time you spend money, you’re casting a vote for the world you want.” – Anne Lappe
The profoundness of this quote isn’t in pointing out where you spend your money, but what money you chose.
Ansel is right. People with this view don’t truly understand the open source aspect or the proof of work aspect fully.
A strong point about Bitcoin is that it literally doesn’t matter who created it. It can be assessed on its own merits since it’s transparent and decentralized.
Unfortunately, this bill only makes stablecoins tax exempt.
This is the wrong direction to go in.
It’s bitcoin that should have a de minimis tax exemption. Stablecoins are not decentralized and they are not permissionless. They’re not real money, they’re just fiat.
Mike Lee is an utter disgrace and everyone should push back against this dishonest cretin.
The moment he realized how unpopular his public land sale scam is, rather than reassess, he implies regular Americans like myself are being paid to oppose it.
Awful human with zero conscience.
Shit makes me feel like I'm taking crazy pills.
Go to the rust belt. Get in a car and drive from Green Bay to Buffalo.
You will drive through miles and miles and miles of abandoned urban sprawl.
Cities who used to have populations in the millions that now average around 500k.
We are not hurting for space, at all.
@1000yearhouse Because I think you're correct, the disposability of all that we do is a death spiral of cause and effect into societal decline and moral decay
@1000yearhouse Said mostly tongue and cheek, but the general belief is that the disposable and consumable nature of everything around us, including architecture, is down stream of devaluing money that demands consumption...
America is flooded with cheap goods imported from the third world via discount and big-box stores. How much different would life feel if some of the things we use the most were beautiful and handmade and we took care of them like we wanted generations to come to use them?