0 sats \ 1 reply \ @gnilma 19 Jun 2023 \ on: Another orange pill moment bitcoin
That post on HN and that line of thinking is pathetic. Really typical weak men / 4th turning shit. It’s far from what I would call “orange pilling”, which in my mind, means understanding bitcoin. Bitcoin teaches ultimate personal responsibility; in its simplest terms, you lose your keys you’re fucked. Bitcoin teaches you to become the best version of yourself. Wanting to work the minimal, just enough to get by is the very opposite of taking on personal responsibility nor becoming the best version of yourself.
Men don’t work hard just for themselves. Men work hard for the ones they love.
Or, alternatively, we have a bullshit economy inflated by a fiat fire hose and people are seeing various side effects of that, and responding the best way they can to the incentive structure around them. The guy isn't avoiding personal responsibility, he's looking for a job that provides the bare minimum so that he can provide value to himself, and maybe society, in other ways.
In a hard currency world, he'd probably work hard for a while (i.e. provide real value to others, because people won't easily part with hard currency), save up some coin and live off of it while finding meaning in other ways.
If I had my way, I'd have a market garden to feed my family and provide nutritious food to my neighbors. Maybe you view that as doing the bare minimum, maybe not. Instead, given the fiat treadmill incentive structure, I write code for a living.
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