The left missed Bitcoin as a transformative tool for wealth creation, including for ordinary people and especially for the working class.
They dismissed it as something “for the rich,” when in reality Bitcoin created wealth for many people who were not wealthy before. It also gave millions of people access to a monetary network that does not require permission from banks, governments, or legacy financial institutions. For the unbanked and underbanked, Bitcoin is not a toy for speculators. It can be a lifeline, a savings technology, and a way to participate in a global financial system.
Bitcoin is for everybody.
One could write an entire book on how badly the left misunderstood it: a decentralized, open, censorship-resistant monetary system that anyone can join, regardless of class, nationality, race, or status. These are values the left should have recognized immediately. Instead, many chose to see only the billionaires, the volatility, and the speculation, while missing the deeper revolution.
Now the same thing is happening with AI.
AI has the potential to liberate people from menial, repetitive, and soul-crushing work. It can give ordinary people tools that were once available only to corporations, experts, or the wealthy. It can amplify creativity, education, productivity, and entrepreneurship. Used correctly, it could lift millions out of poverty and radically expand human potential.
And once again, much of the left reacts with fear, resentment, and prohibition.
They are positioning themselves on the losing side of another technological revolution. Being a Luddite does not work. It did not stop industrialization, it did not stop the internet, it did not stop Bitcoin, and it will not stop AI.
The right question is not how to stop these technologies. The right question is how to make sure they remain open, accessible, and empowering for everyone.
“The most effective lies are never shouted. They’re whispered until they sound like common sense.” – Julian Assange
A Thread Exposing the Everyday Lies and Propaganda We’ve Been Sold🧵
1. Equality Wasn’t the Lie. Feminism Was.
For the last 18 months I’ve been obsessed with how Feastables can do its part to help kids in child labor on cocoa farms in west Africa. Here’s what we’ve put in place!
In light of what is going on in the world today, I believe it is imperative that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. receive Secret Service protection — immediately. Given the history of the Kennedy Family, this is the obvious right thing to do!
@realDonaldTrump Donald Trump Truth Social 11:40 AM EST 07/14/2024
over the course of the last decade there have been some key events that pushed me from the Left to the Right 🧵
from Hillary 2016
to Biden 2020
to Trump 2024
let's unpack it by exploring these 10 examples:
When we help people (curing 1000 blind people, building 100 houses, 100 wells, etc) people get mad and say I shouldn’t be doing this and governments should. Yes, ideally a YouTuber isn’t the one fixing these issues but I’m not just gonna stand by and do nothing 🤷🏻♂️