Everything of value is about to become illegal... \ stacker news ~meta

Everything of value is about to become illegal...

1131 sats \ 15 comments \ @blocktock 13 Oct 2023 meta

We have got accustomed to being more or less left to ourselves in recent years. Yes we have been surveilled, yes we have witnessed cancel culture, but in most Western countries laws have remain relatively unchanged. It hasn't really happened at scale.

So it got me thinking, what do you Stackers think we'll see outlawed, with things heating up in the world?

What might we see?

VPNs outlawed 🚫
Gun ownership 🚫
Shorting stocks 🚫
On-mobile device media scanning 👀
Automatic software updates ☁️
Intense capital controls ☑️
Energy blackouts 🔌
Anti-military stances 🙊
Unreliable/unavailable utilites 👎
Jobs off the market 🔻
Productive independent farming restricted ⛓️
Energy prices 🚀
Conscription on the rise 🚨
Bitcoin on-chain stigmatized & illegal to purchase 😅
Comment below else you think will be outlawed...

view all related items

275 sats \ 1 reply \ @0330830bf9 13 Oct 2023

This blackpill shit is the opposite of Bitcoining.

We're winning. Governments are tied in a pretzel. The house of cards is coming down. An unprecedented era of freedom and prosperity is upon us.

Bitcoin is the next world reserve currency and it's happening faster than anyone could imagine.

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @blocktock OP 13 Oct 2023

Fair.

Just hope people here grab the tools that are available to them. Stackers are great people, but it's in our nature to at times be complacent.

228 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 13 Oct 2023

When do people really get this meme (that is actually true)?

So act accordingly, refine your contract with those companies.

In regards of so called governments...

So why people still give attention to some meaningless papers?

Please define what really is outlawed... Please define "legal".

51 sats \ 0 replies \ @mallardshead 14 Oct 2023

Energy blackouts and pricing volatility are avoidable with an independent renewable energy setup, but some bitcoiners love the fossil fuel industry and centralized energy companies so much, that the sun, wind, and ground are scams. They prefer the geopolitical games of oil regimes and demand their grids use centralized commodity inputs. They don't know why, but heard some twitter personalities throw out old data that sounded new. Also, if a person is an urban dweller, decentralizing transportation with an e-bike is another great way to avoid the energy and KYC scourge. Several e-bikes exist that can seat multiple kids and carry hundreds of pounds, others than can easily fold and be carried, but a bunch of bitcoiners love their 4-wheel spyware, gas stations, repairs, KYC insurance, and police interaction.
VPNs are getting better, but mesh net tech is coming.
Gun ownership and freedom of speech in the US have gotten consistently stronger in since 1791's constitution ratification, not weaker.
Shorting stocks won't be illegal, otherwise volatility, and efficient pricing will be significantly worse, and cantillionaires won't make as much
Media scanning is easily avoidable if you dump the centralized abusers. It's insane to use Gmail, iCloud, your university email, non-private web browsers, etc.
Bitcoin on-chain stigma probably won't get worse than that period of overlap starring SilkRoad, Mt. Gox, and Ghash.io
The ultimate capital control is interest rates
Truly independent (non-commercial) farming seems to be encouraged, even in empty lots across a bunch of US cities, lots of vertical stuff too.
Conscription possibly. Mostly a global East, and global South thing

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Zepasta 13 Oct 2023

deleted by author

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @zuspotirko 14 Oct 2023

Pretty sure this will not happen. At least in major western countries in our lifetimes.

I could see higher taxes. But even if price quadruples (x4 is unrealistic but lets imagine it) ... you'd still have way cheaper meat than the overwhelming majority of human history. It wasn't that long ago that french kings promised to their peasants one chicken every sunday as a moonshot goal.

30 sats \ 0 replies \ @BlokchainB 13 Oct 2023

If COVID proved anything is people and states will push back.

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @TheBTCManual 14 Oct 2023

Lol bring it on, I'm so here for it, in South Africa I can say that only software updates, shorting stocks, conscription is not happening yet, and we go on, you get the government you deserve, if people don't do something to protect themselves that's still a choice.

1 sat \ 1 reply \ @2bithits 13 Oct 2023

I don't think they'll be able to outlaw a lot of this without a mass exodus. Good to be prepared though

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @blocktock OP 13 Oct 2023

Everything is possible when there is a greater enemy than the state. Most will obey. Many won't though, you're right

1 sat \ 0 replies \ @blocktock OP 13 Oct 2023

Why this post? Why is the world going to be any different?

You may have seen my 'inflammatory' SN post last week about where markets are today. TLDR: they are going lower from here.
As Lyn Alden recently shared in her newsletter, volatility both politically and financially is here to stay.
During War times, all logic goes out the window. Laws get rewritten, 'visible' choice will be limited and disobedience will be punished.
We're all aware of the "political-ganda" that exists today and what the shock of 2020 unleashed on the world.
Coordinated or not, with tensions worldwide on the rise, with protests, mass migration, joblessness, homelessness and with financial liquidity at it's lowest in recent years, volatility will be abounds.
Under these circumstances, truth must be suppressed to maintain control.
Any tool that empowers individuals to find such truth, and retain value amidst the chaos is likely to see some headwinds.
But that doesn't mean to be deterred. We may need to be smarter about using these tools.
The reason I am saying these things is not to get all doomsday - it is more to prepare in advance for some crazy policies, from those that pretend to 'govern'.

What is there to do?

Get an open-source 2nd mobile device setup. Buy it in cash and install GrapheneOS. Secure yourself some additional surplus resources. Do it tomorrow.
Run your own node, duh. So you can at the very least retain some control of capital.
Have a bootable backup or copy of software pre-2019 (particularly Apple software), for stuff you can't do on a mobile device.
Start keeping an inventory of consumables. Not to be a prepper, but in the eventuality they may not always be available day to day.
Consider your exit plans.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @quark 14 Oct 2023

They are going to ban encryption too. They need to read our chats 😂

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @zuspotirko 14 Oct 2023

Not going to happen. Companies need trade secrets and encryption.

Some low-iq politicians will probably try. But this is doomed - will fail to get 1. democratic majority support 2. fail in courts. 3. Even if it would get past this (impossible) it would be unenforcable.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @brave 14 Oct 2023

Gun might be illegal but people will always go get it

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @lunanto 14 Oct 2023

Blame it on the Government