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110 sats \ 0 replies \ @jimmysong OP 15h \ parent \ on: Sunday Survey: How long do you talk to a new person before mentioning Bitcoin? bitcoin
About 1 hr.
It works the other way, too. The people that work up that moral base find themselves earning more money. Married men, for example, are the richest in the economy, I think, for this reason. They've had to build up character and virtue due to their responsibilities. Bitcoiners are getting married and having babies, which I interpret as Bitcoiners maturing and becoming more responsible to handle the next level of wealth.
This is why getting rich slowly is a blessing. It gives you time to acclimate and frankly, mature, before you get to the next stage. People that are given lots of money at once (lotto winners, casino winners, sports stars) generally don't handle windfalls well and you can tell because they end up with divorces and few friends just 3-5 years later.
The slow growing wealth has generally sorted people out in the Bitcoin community. The people that can't handle wealth do something dumb with it (like altcoins) and lose it. It's not a coincidence that a lot of people that have pumped Bitcoin in the past are now pumping altcoins, in jail or something in between.
I suspect a lot of the spiritual searching that I've seen in Bitcoiners is from this dilemma. If you don't have a good base of morals to operate from, you're not going to be able to handle being rich.
How much do you practice? And how much time would you estimate that you have put into your art in hours over your life?
I would cut them some slack. The thing is, posting on forums like this is a different animal than posting on Nostr or X, especially for people that have a large following. Other than AMAs, it's really hard to manage the volume of responses. On X and Nostr, it's accepted that responders won't get a response or engagement if you have a big following. On Stacker News, it's not obvious who has a big following and who doesn't so a lot of people get frustrated with such accounts not responding. Heck, I get that a lot here and until the mute function came along, I didn't like that random people could troll me and show up in my notifications constantly.
Those experiences matter and places like this are naturally a bit more egalitarian and for better or for worse, it's not a great experience for them to post. Lurking, on the other hand, has little cost, so that's probably what they do.