I've worked in web software dev since 2006 and very quickly I learned about Free & Open Source software. The idea that anyone can download the source code to an application, audit it, modify it, or fork it is very empowering. I've learned so much because of this practice. I've seen how OSS out performs closed source on security over and over again. I've seen the power that an open protocol can create with RSS, HTML, and JSON. So when I first heard about bitcoin I was immediately interested. At the time I was very new to Austrian economics and the liberty movement so I really didn't get that part of it fully. As I began to learn about how the Federal Reserve worked and how they were stealing our life force (wealth) silently and with little push back I became very anger about it. I followed Ron Paul and he accepted bitcoin which I thought was interesting. Then the 2017 bull market got my attention. I started thinking about what open source money would mean. What if the rules for money were in code? What if it took massive consensus to change the rules instead of appointing some jerk to a board run by the bankers?
If you recall Ron Paul's big push was to audit the Fed. Seems reasonable right? I mean this entity which controls the money supply which affects almost every person on the planet. They should have accountability right? Well, most politicians do not agree. Ron Paul's attempt to audit the Fed failed. He retired and no one is even attempting to do this now. It will never happen. It taught me that the true way to change things isn't to reform existing systems. The way to fix the world is to build something new. Something better. Something that will unseat the status quo. The good news is we already have that thing. Its bitcoin. Its open source. Not tricks. No hidden elites calling the shots. Just those that join the network and run their nodes. Deciding which set of rules to accept. It is a revolution that hasn't been recognized. It will happen though. As many say, gradually, then suddenly.
Would everyone remove their space helmet from their avatar now, please?
Well, I live in Peru, a sexist country, but sexist by convenience, that is to say, they believe that women should marry as virgins, work and be a housewife and the husband should only work and give orders, that happens to people aged 40 and older. Now, in the school and university population it is the opposite, liberalism and some woke leftist ideas. I don't have a very wide social life and even less with younger people, so I don't experience it completely, what I know is because I hear from afar or see things on social networks. The few people I usually talk to are generation Z and they are very sexist, both men and women. It's really strange here they are totally at opposite extremes, but there is no middle ground.
I have seen that the government has implemented woke messages (?) I don't know if that is the term, but in hospitals in the gynecology section I have seen messages that say things like "you are a woman if you feel like a woman" with their respective trans flag, there are also those messages in airport bathrooms.
https://m.stacker.news/66507
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