Rootdude 🤙🏻⚡️ @rootdude - 2y
I busted out my full on Bitcoin/CBDC rant at a normie dinner with boomers. SMH.
𝕼𝖚𝖎𝖊𝖙 𝖂𝖆𝖗𝖗𝖎𝖔𝖗 @QW - 2y
Word. They’ve been friends for years, and a vodka rocks in, I got all protective. The timeframe for CBDC’s has accelerated rapidly and even I don’t feel like I’m locked and loaded for this summer. We are in for a summer of complete chaos.
feb4e - 2y
Love that moment. Had it last night. SMH.
28853 - 2y
How’d it go? Worst case is you planted a seed that sprouts when they get rug pulled by their bank
Wife of boomer seemed to get it and was asking questions. Boomer husband wouldn’t look me in the eye - probably thinking about his life’s savings going up in smoke and those steaks we were eating being a memory. The evidence of the machinations to destroy the USD are incontrovertible. He’s a blue pill kinda guy. Not sure what I was thinking talking to them about this stuff.
Truth: he’s starting to see the rug pulls (insurance industry in our state is all fucked up) but he refuses to connect the dots. Cognitive dissonance is a thing.
You’re doing God’s work man. It’s literally spreading the gospel. They’re free from wealth destruction and forced stock market gambling. You can orange pill people without getting toxic or political or grandiose. Most people never think what money is or they’re full of Keynesian propaganda or they hear Bitcoin and think of dogecoin. It’s rough but they should hear about it if you care about them at all
To some degree. The boomer is still fiat mining, so he is concerned about wealth destruction. Unlikely I’d convince him to do anything beyond the matrix he’s lived in 90% of his life.
All you can do is plant the seed. He’ll look for it when shit hits the fan.
It’s like most things boomer. The first thought is, “What’s in it for him to offer me this advice?” They don’t understand the answer, “Nothing”. A lifetime of experience tells the listener that altruistic behavior only exists in Philosophy books. The allegory here is they’ve seen plenty of Chicken Little in their lives - and they perceive this monumental shift away from the USD hegemony to be nothing more than that. The move away from the gold standard in 1971 was supposed to be a paradigm shift that would send gold to the moon - which it did (and didn’t)… shifting the focus from enhancing fiat wealth to surviving the destruction of fiat wealth and just having freedom be that wealth is an alien thought to anyone who has enjoyed 60+ years of unfathomable abundance.
We are definitely having similar experiences at dinner parties. I find that younger people get it way way easier. They all know they’re getting railed but can’t say exactly how.
