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Project MUSE - Why Bitcoin Is Freedom Moneymuse.jhu.edu/article/970346
423 sats \ 8 comments \ @siggy47 3h bitcoin
Alex Gladstein wrote this for the Johns Hopkins Journal Of Democracy.
According to the Human Rights Foundation, 5.7 billion people live in authoritarian regimes, meaning that the overwhelming majority of democracy activists are living in places where their payments, fundraising, and savings are completely broken.
This is a very comprehensive article. Those familiar with the work of the HRF will already know about many of the examples Gladstein cites.
This paper is directed to a more normie audience, and I think it's very persuasive.
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432 sats \ 4 replies \ @Coinsreporter 3h
Yes, the article is really very comprehensive for normies, for non tech guys like me. A must read for all imo.
On a side note I'm surprised to see that I shared it already but it doesn't show up in the related top (I'm sure it also didn't show up in the dupes for you).
Something to look into for @ek and co. maybe.
Please don't delete, it should get more discussion which it's due.
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41 sats \ 3 replies \ @siggy47 OP 3h
I would not have posted it if I saw it. Oh well.
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144 sats \ 2 replies \ @Coinsreporter 3h
No problem sir. This one should get more discussion/engagement what the article deserves. In fact I just put up links, don't have such articulation to suggest why the article is important.
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41 sats \ 1 reply \ @siggy47 OP 2h
You are very articulatešŸ˜€
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @Coinsreporter 2h
Thank you so much.
Surely I'm nowhere close to the natives of English. I often try to ape, but aping is aping you know.
Although I believe if I ever got a fair environment to learn English, I could do much better. I was raised in rural India. I still remember how my English teacher in the high school used misspell on the board. Whatever English I know, I learnt it through videos, songs and self reading and mostly imitating because I knew it was easiest for me and could provide me lifelong opportunities for earning my bread and butter. So I learned speaking it but my writing remained just ok.
I got my first job as Spoken English trainer at the age of 17 and my pay was better than so many other teachers there. That was then made me learn it theoretically. Then I decided to do M.A. in English Literature. I did that privately (self study) again doing the same job, passed it with 80% plus marks, did M.Phil too and was then recruited in a college a Assistant professor.
To become an assistant professor for English in India was much easier back then...hahaa
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36 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 3h
Beneath the shrieking of the Bitcoin Treasury boosters, there does seem to be a steady drumbeat of sensible information about Bitcoin beginning to permeate society:
  • Bitcoin is an alternative to government money
  • Bitcoin is not bad for the environment/plays a constructive role in the grid
  • Bitcoin is useful/valuable
Maybe people will adopt BItcoin via common sense assumptions before they ever get any sats of their own.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Entrep 38m
5.7 billion people under authoritarian rule is staggering. I havenā€™t read the article yet, but it sounds like Gladstein makes a strong case for how financial systems impact activism.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @035736735e 1h outlawed
stackers have outlawed this. turn on wild west mode in your /settings to see outlawed content.