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Playing the gold keys

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When I write I take my inspiration from all over the place, conversations I have, little things I observe and like this post, images. I liked the edit of this image, so I decided to use it as a basis of a post.

Gold keys.

I don't have any gold, but I do have some keys.

People talk about Bitcoin being gold 2.0, but I think it is somewhat better than gold due to the mobility and additional layers of security. Gold is hard to travel with, crypto is about as transportable as something gets. I still don't have much Bitcoin myself, but I do have a little, along with plenty of other shit coin bags I am holding. Will they everbe worth something?

Perhaps it doesn't matter if they are not, after all, since I don't use them to finance my life, of they all go to zero, I am pretty much where I would be if I had never got in at all.

Would it be a waste of time, energy and nerves?

Yes.

But, at the same time I have learned a lot and had a fair amount of fun in the process. Just think how much tume people waste normally for no reason whatsoever - at least the last 4 years had the potential to give some return.

I am pretty positive that not everything I hold will go to zero. It is good to be prepared though.

Time wasting is something I frown upon, although we all do it. Just imagine if all the time, energy and resources that have been put into various social movements or talking about Covid was spent on something that really mattered, like improving the economic conditions or the environment, would things look better? Imagine if even half of all the mebtal power wasted over the last 30 years was focused into improving air and water quality globally, would the problems be as dire?

I remember hearing that enough energy is burned in the 100 meter sprint final at the Olympics to boil a bucket of water.

I dont know if that is true, but I can imagine that if all the mental power was put into solving a few global problems with the same focus, things would look a whole lot different. I believe that a lot of the reason why we can't do that is that it is not economically viable to do so. Solutions don't make money, subscriptions and incremental upgrades do.

I think we are going to profit-focus our way into extinction. We will get to the point of no return before we put ourselves before profit.

We are all part of the problem. You included. The laws of supply and demand dictate that the world we have created is a direct result of what we have demanded. To change the world, we need to change what we demand.

it is inconvenient though.

We like to have easy and the world we have that we have created yet we despise, is easy. Sure, we want different to what we have, but not enough to demand it. So the supply keeps coming. What people should realize is that regardless of how freaky or terrible something is, if there is a demand for it, someone will be willing to supply it, for a price.

How come we want a better economy, companies and governments, yet we keep consuming them as they are today?

There is a difference between vocally demanding change and consuming in a way that supports that change. If you want a better, more opportunity filled economy, you best kit keep looking to fiat as your solution to your future - that is just more if the same and exactly what will ensure that change is impossible.

The gold keys we all hold is to our decision making on what we consume - each time we opt into the status quo economy, we are giving a little of our gold to the system - each time we opt out and into crypto, we are transferring a little of our wealth into a new way, a new future - one that we own a small piece of and collectively, all of it. With continued opting out of centralised and into decentralised economies, the more economic mass and therefore power, gets transferred off of the traditional vehicles and onto the new. In time, the pendulum swings far enough that the mass topples on its axis and the whole world changes direction.

I think most of us as individuals go not understand that collectively, we have the economic power to change anything, because consumer demand drives everything. There is no bank, no government, no company or social platform that can operate profitably if we truly choose to restrict them.

Or empower them.

It requires our gold active key.

Taraz [ Gen1: Hive ]

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