JayLeClay on Nostr: Hey #Plebs, #NostrPlebs, I met a bitcoiner last year who had recently gone down the ...
Hey #Plebs, #NostrPlebs,
I met a bitcoiner last year who had recently gone down the rabbit hole. Listening to lots of podcasts, but not reading very much. I know this because he kept repeating how he had been “orange-peeled” and how he wanted to “orange peel” as many people as he could. Evidently, never seeing it written down, he did not know that the term is “orange-pilled,” as a reference to the decision Neo has to make between the red pill, which will wake him up to a life-changing truth, and the blue pill which leave him asleep and living an ordinary existence inside The Matrix (1999).
He didn’t know the reference and it was an innocent mistake — not one of any real consequence. But here’s another for all you Plebs, #BitcoinPlebs, doing it all #ForThePlebs.
Of course language can change over time and slang can hold different meanings but, in this case, you are actively reinforcing the belief that there is a division in society (originally Rome) between the elites and the common people, the haves and have nots, the Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat. Ah, yes. It’s literally a Marxist framework and you are swallowing it uncritically, regurgitating it enthusiastically, and binding yourself to an ideology that DOES NOT WORK for a free society. Unless you are a Marxist, stop using this language.
You cannot talk about creating generational wealth while simultaneously bashing the wealthy class… which you will become once you create said generational wealth with #Bitcoin. It is only through Capitalism that you will create the wealth you seek. Not Marxism. Not even Anarchism.
An Honest Capitalist is a net producer of value (whether products or services). They are rewarded in the free market in the form of profit if they can steer their enterprise effectively, efficiently and fairly among a variety forces: sales margin, competition, regulation, supply chain management, employee satisfaction, customer service, growth, etc. It is, of course, true that we live in an age of Crony Capitalism which rewards intermediaries, nepotism, political connections, regulatory loopholes, obligatory intermediaries and rent-seeking (which has nothing prima facie to do with your landlord or real estate), etc.
…but that doesn’t mean that we should be reconsidering Marxism, Socialism, or Communism and using THEIR mental framework and language.
I met a bitcoiner last year who had recently gone down the rabbit hole. Listening to lots of podcasts, but not reading very much. I know this because he kept repeating how he had been “orange-peeled” and how he wanted to “orange peel” as many people as he could. Evidently, never seeing it written down, he did not know that the term is “orange-pilled,” as a reference to the decision Neo has to make between the red pill, which will wake him up to a life-changing truth, and the blue pill which leave him asleep and living an ordinary existence inside The Matrix (1999).
He didn’t know the reference and it was an innocent mistake — not one of any real consequence. But here’s another for all you Plebs, #BitcoinPlebs, doing it all #ForThePlebs.
Of course language can change over time and slang can hold different meanings but, in this case, you are actively reinforcing the belief that there is a division in society (originally Rome) between the elites and the common people, the haves and have nots, the Bourgeoisie and the Proletariat. Ah, yes. It’s literally a Marxist framework and you are swallowing it uncritically, regurgitating it enthusiastically, and binding yourself to an ideology that DOES NOT WORK for a free society. Unless you are a Marxist, stop using this language.
You cannot talk about creating generational wealth while simultaneously bashing the wealthy class… which you will become once you create said generational wealth with #Bitcoin. It is only through Capitalism that you will create the wealth you seek. Not Marxism. Not even Anarchism.
An Honest Capitalist is a net producer of value (whether products or services). They are rewarded in the free market in the form of profit if they can steer their enterprise effectively, efficiently and fairly among a variety forces: sales margin, competition, regulation, supply chain management, employee satisfaction, customer service, growth, etc. It is, of course, true that we live in an age of Crony Capitalism which rewards intermediaries, nepotism, political connections, regulatory loopholes, obligatory intermediaries and rent-seeking (which has nothing prima facie to do with your landlord or real estate), etc.
…but that doesn’t mean that we should be reconsidering Marxism, Socialism, or Communism and using THEIR mental framework and language.