For some, it’s inflation. For others, it’s the creeping surveillance or the endless wars.
What was your moment? That line you saw crossed that made you say, “I’m done playing this game”?
Let’s hear the real stories.
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30 sats \ 1 reply \ @Signal312 12h
The covid insanity put the cherry on top of the sundae. I wasn't a conventional thinker even before that, but the insanity of the covid era really red pilled me.
Like...getting kicked out of a Starbucks for not being vaccinated.
That's why I will never again buy anything at a Starbucks.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 10h
Yep.... it was insane... people were being forced to inject barely tested substances into their children so that they could stay in school.
The amount of people who were willing to accept such tyranny pissed me off.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 10h
Never did play the game.
Never will.
Certainly Bitcoin makes it easier and has enabled a lot of projects that would otherwise have never got done, but overall the world has imo got worse in many ways in recent decades.
Cannot be easy for younger people now.
The neoliberal greed is good financialisation 1980s was probably when I consciously took a stand and said, No thanks. Fuck that.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @slodkny 11h freebie
Currency devaluation followed by inflation followed by more devaluation and so on, all while being told lie after lie.
Stupid and pointless biometric controls. Part of my money is forever stuck (or in the process of being seized) in the banking system unless I give them all my fingerprints.
My own thoughts and realizations about value, money and property.
0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Blank 11h
Debt, the amount of debt that people take on to buy useless shit, is in my opinion, are willfully being indentured servants.
Trying to save, and watching the representation of my life's work be eroded by monetary policy.
Movies like fight club, office space, and zeitgeist came out when I was a young man. They most likely left a last impression on how I view the world and work.
Can't really pin it on any one thing really, becoming a Bitcoin maxi was where I was always meant to end up I think.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Undisciplined 12h
I like the framing of this question. I think it was just finally seeing an opportunity that I believed would work, so more of a pull than a push.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 14h
a critical health event, when the specialist's explanation did not make enough sense; that's when my process to opt-out really took off
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