With all due respect, nobody doesn’t want freedom. Some people just fear the potential beatings and lynchings more, and sometimes for good reason.
Freedom can be scary to contemplate because an attempt to attain it that fails results in punishment.
That’s the root of the “Bitcoin is boiling the ocean” critiques, it’s an attempt to scare people away from trying, to convince them that if they try they may end up worse. If they allow anyone to try we may all end up worse. And people believe that because they can’t even imagine being free of debts and bills and creditors.
Everyone wants freedom. Some people just don’t believe it is even possible.
Bryon D Bothun
npub15s…z4ce5
2023-08-01 12:42:02
in reply to nevent1q…rn8w
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2023-08-01 12:42:02Event JSON
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