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All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us??

Like past bubbles, it’s usefulness is being marketed into existence.

> "I have always done exactly what I wanted. Which is why I find myself on a shady facial recognition website looking for a bus driver I met when I was 14."

Is a powerful way to start a blog post. 9/10

> Cost of living can only go up if people are willing to pay more.

, is the worst economic take i've heard in a while and I read the FT. CoL is primarily driven by supply and demand, not willingness to pay, not to mention inflation, supply chain issues, inelastcity...

Fake diamonds are for vegans.

The article emphasizes financial pressures on new couples due to rising living costs making lab-grown diamonds more appealing, and that's sad in my mind, it's sad that the cost of living prices people out from nice things, it's sad that people here are coping saying lab made are the same, which to me is like saying a veggie patty is the same as a beef and I'm a bad person for eating meat, that a knockoff purse is the same as the brand name because they are both leather; dematerialize and dissasociate from the world more why dont you, oh are you above consumerism and so romantic you could wear a string as a wedding band because its more about meaning. What's the point of any fashion then. Of any art if any paint will do. Gold is just metal too then.

[Born during Clinton's first term]

Indeed, a strange forward-thinking reversion back to a hard money standard to have BTC backed anything.

Whatever $€£¥₹₽^x to BTC bridge exists, I'm all for it.

Stabelcoins are\will be nothing more than glorified digital dollars\CBDCs, of which there are many already, that will proliferate USDs 'exorbitant privilege'.

The only real revolution in/for/from 'crypto' is BTCs double spend PoW solution/it's ability to be defi p2p cash for 15+ years and running.

Special slop, made by ai for ai, now only €199-799 a month.

Goals, however small, give life meaning.

AT is an amazing tool that can boost productivity and help with creative inspiration. If an app is making you feel sad stop using the app.

A price appreciation of about 75% over roughly 20 years.

I'm not excusing nor rationalizing prices and the economics, obviously they hoard and manupulate the rates. Can't argue with how dark that crap must be. All I'm saying is real diamonds are 'better' and everyone knows it. Humans are emotional and that's a good thing. The manipulation of it is the bad thing. Trying to deny yourself of your emotions like a monk and yet still wishing for the iconic symbolic significance having 3month salary storybook ring, what are we doing here. Pay more for the real thing because life is real.