Viker

i can arbiter the bet !

I remember using and WAP2IRC gateway to impress my IRC buddies.

Coz Scandinavia or Canada....

Well yes. That is exactly as society.

We ignore the people that actually feed us (farmers), and instead we focus all our energy on the people that feed us bullshit (Elon M.).

It is ironic isn't it.

Having everything society has to offer actually makes you dull and miserable, and depressed.

I can fully understand your sentiment too. I not have always lived in Scandinavia. But sadly now I can fully relate to the author too.

This discussion needs more exposure because it is hammering the nail hard in the head.

I have come to both conclusions on my own too... Is it better to live in competition to avoid thinking... Or... Is it better to derive joy form external factors: family, craft, nature.

I have no good answer but love where the discussion is going.

I also live in Scandinavia.

Hmm... Hard to beat that energy density when the workload is large.

Trucks, tractors, planes, ships. Sure consumer cars will be EV but ICEs are not going anywhere

Factorio takes me around 250 hours every two years.

It's not an avarage but in a burst

People might not be aware but this is standard operation for any kind of integrated OEM ( other equipment manifacture)

You sell units at break even, hoping you make profit from service and support.

Sure. I can hand you a handful of USB sticks about 20 paper wallets maybe a hard disk or two...and tell you, here are my keys. Now what you do? Do you put down your gun and start verifying which one is with actual funds or, do you know what is a usb drive and what is a hw wallet? Are you gonna ask me for my password too. How do you know you actually stole something worthwhile? How do you know I am not going to be faster transferring the coins to different wallets?

All that is vs. "show me gold, shiny ohh heavy".

You see the levels of complications....

Here is the irony of crypto vs gold...

You can secure ur gold physically very well, fires and natural disasters short of volcano, yet it is easy to steal it at gunpoint.

Crypto is hard and cumbersome to secure ( paper keys, hw Wallets), yet very hard to steal at gunpoint.

You can call it that.

But both data and research and confirm that.

Also there is plenty of anecdotal evidence especially in IT of highly successful career women that would drop everything just to have have children.

It made me sad too.

All these brilliant minds working for so long and accomplishing so much... Just for a clap and cheer, yet tommorow they have to do it all again in the rat race. Yet cryptokings are basking in glory for a lifetime.