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 14h
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 12h
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 \ 2 replies \ @justin_shocknet 2h
In my 20's, I had 3-4 hours total commute time every day just to have both a decent paying job and be able to afford a respectable house. Commuting comes with a cost too, gas and vehicle maintenance depreciation. The math was just retarded.
One day in traffic I looked around at boomers in BMW's and Porsche's and shit, sitting in the same bullshit traffic I was, and realizing they had been doing this for 30+ years for the same retard math.
I could not accept this for decades more, got really motivated, did some debt snowball shit for a few years and started consulting on the side, mostly remotely. Ramped that up to full time and fucked off permanently to the middle of nowhere where I had always took vacations.
Some of the shit I sold to do that, like my commuting vehicle, I noticed all the buyers were government employees in some way. Nobody else could afford to pay cash for things second hand. Yet another Cantillon wake up call.
That wake up, and the time I free'd up, left space for Bitcoin to come more into focus.
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17 sats \ 1 reply \ @halalmoney 2h
Interesting. I’ve noticed the same with people I know. They simply don’t have the time to look into Bitcoin properly and end up regurgitating headlines and FUD because who likes to admit that they don’t know about something which is mentioned in ‘mainstream’ news.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @justin_shocknet 2h
Yea, over time I've come to empathize with people who are so occupied by being in survival mode that they don't have the mental bandwidth take in the bigger picture.
That's why orange pilling is a lost cause in many cases, a slow drip is more effective than a flood... you first have to get them to reject survival mode as a state of being, and the fear of change that keeps them there.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Solomonsatoshi 13h
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 14h 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 14h
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 15h
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 16h
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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