137 sats \ 9 replies \ @tomlaies 21 Aug 2022 \ on: What's the Biggest Mistake When Orangepilling People? bitcoin
The biggest mistake are people thinking Bitcoin was an investment for financial "gain" (measured in fiat). Idk how to do this but we really need to bring people to the irl community and meetups to make them understand that Bitcoin is a non-government network first and foremost (which investments and financial speculation normally are not which creates the confusion here).
I always start with "Bitcoin is just a public ledger of transactions that anyone can write to, but somehow everyone trusts. We've never had that before."
The conversation usually then goes in a few directions, "Why have we never had it before?" or "Why does this matter?" Either way it goes to a very productive discussion on either the underlying technology or the underlying monetary economics
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Sounds good. But what has that to do with my comment?
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Just an example of a conversation that follows your advice in not emphasizing the financial gain, but emphasizing that Bitcoin is first and foremost a network that lets people opt out of the government controlled monetary system
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Oh okay, I get it. More of a flow based strategy instead of an individual good or bad argument then.
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The moment I realized that I am no longer excited about selling my bitcoin for millions is when I realized that I have hit a milestone in falling down the bitcoin rabbit hole: It's not about fiat gains, it's about the separation of money and state.
In other words: I finally understood the Matrix meme
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I'm sorry to say this now but I cringe really hard at matrix / red pill / sheeple metaphors. Very cringe to me.
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I can understand, but I think that one has some depth to it.
Interested what you then think of "orange-pilling" people?
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I think "orange-pilling" is fine.
My problem with matrix / red pill / sheeple metaphors is rather that it implies that one is smarter than everybody else. Which is simply not true. Having early exposure is luck or fortune - but nothing that diminishes people that did not!
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Einstein and Newton were smarter than you, so are most CEX owners and people who got in earlier than you.
Genius is the capacity to learn and pattern recognize at a much faster rate than the average. And so is intelligence and it falls on a spectrum
why do you have such a hard time accepting that other people WERE smarter and got in earlier on?
You get bitcoin at the price you deserve.
Equality nonsense does not hold up in reality :)
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