Not when they own everything. The king did not need his peasants to consume except in as much as you needed them to stay alive so that he could get them to feed his knights to protect him and invade other domains.

The rich don't want to or need to sell you an iPhone in the world they're building. You won't have any money to give them because they will have all the money and all the power and all the land and everything. They will keep a handful of us to amuse them and that's it.

Think of the worst and poorest American Indian reservations. That's what they have in store for you.

Machine gun can take down any mob you care to point at. If it gets bad enough you use drones and bombs. Like what they did with Black Wall Street but on them much much larger scale.

Israel is currently bombing the ever-loving shit out of civilian targets and Gaza and nobody cares. When the ruling elite start dropping bombs on your neighborhood nobody's going to care either.

You need to get real comfortable with the fact that if you don't do something now violence isn't going to save you. This isn't a mother fucking 80s action movie.

You let the militarize the police already. And the police are on their side because the police are on the side of property and always have been.

So yeah with your little semi-automatic rifle feel free to try to get through the security Bill Gates has. And then if you manage to survive that with Bill Gates or whoever completely unscathed enjoy spending the rest of your life in a work camp. Or if they don't have any use for you in a work camp they can kill you and harvest your organs or use you for various experiments

Whatever thing that sounds like it came out of a cool Hollywood movie you've thought of they have already thought of. You are not going to beat them with violence. This isn't the 17th century anymore.

Figure something else out and do it quick.

Is eliminating their dependency on us.

AI is designed to allow wealth to access skill without skill accessing wealth.

Folks need to start deconstructing the Cold war bullshit their brains were programmed with and do it fast because there's not much time.

If you think you're safe you're not. They're coming for your 401k, your social security and the pills to keep you alive. Once they've got that your house is next.

These people want to be trillionaires and you're in their way.

I see tin pot dictatorships using it to move money out of the country for said dictator and I see my president here in America using it to solicit bribes but that's about it.

I can't imagine that if somebody actually used Bitcoin for a legitimate international transaction that the hodl crowd would not have made sure every single person on this website heard about it.

Find you I don't think Financial corruption and money laundering is going anywhere anytime soon. People are too fucking stupid to realize how much damage that does to their daily lives. The way we let the entire economy collapse every 6 to 10 years or so.

Stodgy professors at various universities will tell you in detail how to prevent those collapses using the tools and tactics we developed after the Great depression but nobody likes to listen to them. They are extremely uncharismatic. Absolutely no fun to watch.

So unless we pull our heads out of our asses, realized that bureaucrats are white collar law enforcement and stop cutting funding to them and begin to seriously regulate Wall Street while demanding a more stable economy than no Bitcoin isn't going anywhere.

It's not going to burst like a bubble because it's not a bubble it's a tool used to launder money and it's a tool that the ultra wealthy and the ruling elite are beginning to use.

Now if this keeps up our entire civilization will collapse and yeah Bitcoin will go down with it but at that point I don't think anyone's going to care.

Somebody is using my comments to train in llm. Not a very sophisticated one probably running on a desktop but still.

Back in 2016 you would have been jaded. In 2025 you're just acknowledging reality.

Trump took $3 billion in bribes from Middle Eastern countries and we didn't even blink. The guy should have been impeached and removed from office immediately following that.

I think about a $100 million dollars should be enough. I mean for now anyway. Like any good Mafia you're only as good as your last envelope.

The more it goes after queer people. That's because for some reason queer people give a significant percentage of the population but can only be described as "the ick", and queer people are very clearly born that way because they exist in every single culture no matter how hard people try to stamp them out.

So if you're a dictator looking for a minority to oppress in order to distract from your incompetent leadership there is none better. They're just enough of them that you can scare people with them but not so much the queer people can reliably and effectively form voting blocks or interest groups that can push back.

It's frustrating to see the same tricks from our ruling class used again and again for thousands of years and we never fucking learn.

Zillow is actually worse. What they were doing was buying up properties to artificially inflate the value of the properties surrounding it that they owned.

It's the kind of market manipulation that used to be illegal and probably still is if we enforce the laws.

But Americans can't walk and chew gum at the same time. So while we are busy freaking out over whatever moral panic they put in front of us this week, currently trans kids in sports, we can't also demand law enforcement do anything about this crap.

The other major problem is law enforcement for white collar crimes is mostly bureaucrats and we've been taught bureaucrats are bad.

I wonder why we got taught that?.. hmmm. It sure is a mystery. Somebody calls Scooby-Doo.

What's left are the dregs that turn into scams.

This is incidentally why they opened up private equity to regular investors. Your 401k is about to have hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars poured into it from dodgy private equity stocks.

They're aren't enough public pensions for them to dump bad investments on anymore because again they've killed them all already.

So now they're coming for your 401k. Better start picking out your favorite flavor of cat food. And make sure you have a dry option for backup. But hey you sure showed those bureaucrats what's what right?

Building out those data centers is highly specialized work so besides maybe throwing up the exterior frame which is hardly anything they bring people in from outside to do everything else

They're too busy chasing tax cuts and deregulation. They won't want to do anything until it's too late and they're being pushed out of Windows and drinking polonium tea.

We might convince a few of them to donate to the Democrat party but that's about it.

I'd say you should be ashamed of yourself but if it's one thing I've learned the right wing have no shame. Like you're physically incapable of the emotion.

It's weird and creepy seeing you psychopaths operate. It's no wonder you don't care the Trump is a pedophile.