I have been well informed that financial assets are only permission of overlords. I have learned this by the actions of those overlords intent on my enslavement to them, and the seizure of my money and property through fraud and corruption in which the courts were principal vectors of fraud. I have understood that what was possible to my forebears has been closed to me, and as a result value very different assets than they did.
I am confident that we are being led into a trap, so I will not follow that herding direction, and this devalues digital assets and systems in favor of actual estimation of good people and the real wealth of goods and services that create the blessings of civilization I enjoy. I commend you to the application of requisite due diligence to secure those blessings to you and yours as will be necessary in the obvious deception narrative we are being fed.
My sincere best wishes for your robust success.
My overarching goal is to be "left to quiet enjoyment", without the need for constant labour.
I am a creative soul, I cannot escape that. Capitalism is not compatible with creativity, and any "support" from entities such as governments and foundations come with far too many ligatures attached.
I seek simple independence from these systems to pursue the renaissance-man lifestyle - to be skilled in many things, and for my mind, body and whims to be challenged, healthy, and satiated.
Unfortunately, I cannot purchase or barter for the things that we all require - calories, water, with crypto, so I still require fiat to hold off the wasting away and to satiate the bridge trolls with their annual, compulsory pleas for taxes, rates, tarrifs and levies.
If you research the Potlatch economies of the PNW Native American tribes there is an idea of the mutual dependence goodwill facilitates, and that is something like what I do. I just take care of my friends and neighbors when they need things I can do, and when I have needs I go to them, which has developed over time into relationships that are dependably mutually satisfactory. There are people capable of goodwill, and people that aren't, and I have to not depend on them that aren't, so don't try that with lawyers. It's neither something that must be all or nothing, but develops over time through appropriate investments in taking care of people. I am not uniquely virtuous, and whole nations had similar economies without money.
I am jealous, to some extent of the richness (probably the wrong word there) that the third world has in terms of its sense of collectivism and the desire to assist. I really enjoy reading the musings of @beelzael on his Ecuadorian bakery on this. Everyone pulls together to get shit done. To get things made. At least, those are the people that get written about, because who knows where the others are.
Meanwhile, I have my four chilli plants that produce way more than I can reasonably consume, and I'd love to trade some for tomatoes, in order to to then allow me to make more chilli sauce than I could reasonably consume, to trade it for eggs, or what ever else.
Unfortunately, Australian suburbia is nothing like this. There are of course "buy nothing groups" - notably on big social networks, but those are ones (from my other comments) that I will be "opting out" of when (it is funny how these things coalesce) digital verification of physical id is required to maintain ongoing access.
Thank you for your comments and continued discourse and engagement. It is thoroughly appreciated.
I also am anticipating losing the fervent verdance of international correspondence we now enjoy upon the requirement of biometric digital ID to access the internet. It is one reason I have flogged Reticulum here, in the hopes that it would gain traction and adoption prior to that surveillance initiating - although it's already bad enough to recommend usable alternatives. Where I expect to seek a connection from Reticulum will not serve, and I will decline to provide PII just to access the internet.
That's not a day I eagerly anticipate.
We can mail letters. Also, the tyranny of the government. Put messages in bottles. Littering. Smoke signals? Arson.
I consider institutions the Antichrist. Institutions aren't born, don't hunger, love, hurt, or hate. They're inhuman and inhumane, and can't be anything else. Mercy isn't something inhuman pathological psychotic immortal evil features.
Today I learned that tyranny can be a substitute word for mercy, and I edited a post to reflect this learning :)
I am always learning whenever we exchange words, and I am grateful.