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Kiwi is a chad. Known him for many many years, since before bitcoin community fragmented and got all retarded. This is a much needed product. Looking forward to watching you build it mate 🤝
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If you’re going to host workshops, or events / gatherings of any kind, check out @nprofile1q...

Bitcoin-native, Nostr-native events app. Almost as good as Eventbrite, but every event (and by end of month, every user account) comes with a native bitcoin wallet
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This is all true..
Except - it only works in a high trust culture, with a homogenous ethic population that has a high average IQ.

Sans that biological & cultural substrate, it’s not practically possible.

And since the earth is filled with people who mostly do not fit the conditions outlined at the top, then this will always remain a perfectly accurate sound *theory*.
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Storytelling remains king. Yes.
But you need to remember that 90% of people are not main characters. They’re extras in someone else’s movies.

They don’t tell their own stories. They play a part in others.

Therefore, there is no “saving them”

What technology does is give them extra powers to be useless with.

It elevates them & accelerates everything.

Those of us who are main characters AND can intentionally USE technology (as opposed to it using us) have an advantage (as we always have) but there’s no denying that the quantum of noise is higher than it’s ever been and this makes the tide harder to resist
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Nah. Tech transforms us. It accelerates everything and clashes with biological tendencies & modalities (which evolve and adapt over much longer time frames).

Consumerism is of course a huge issue too, and we know why. Fiat money bla bla bla.

But tech has a bigger impact.

People think money printing for example fucked everything up in 1971. Sure. It had an impact.

But you know what had a bigger negative impact on society? The pill. Less than a decade beforehand.

Same in 2010 with the proliferation of the smartphone. And later social media.

Not saying we need to go Amish. But these things have a way bigger impact than simple consumerism (consumerism is an accelerant)