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This life is not just about expanding our wealth.


In our current capitalist economy, most people spend majority of their life just working and saving for their retirements.


That's not something I disagree with. I do that. But via traditional means (I generate something of value and get wealth in return), not solely by using my wealth to generate more wealth.

I hate bitcoin because you can only participate (and become more wealthy) if you're already fortunate/privileged enough to be wealthy. It's just another thing that helps increase the divide between rich and poor.


> In our current capitalist economy

Hasn't this always been the case, for all of humanity's existence?

"Cursed is the ground because of you; through painful toil you will eat from it"


Everything bad is because of [buzzword that represents everything bad about the current social order].

Do lefties have a "not real capitalism" meme like the "not real communism" meme for righties?


It is absolutely not - where did I say it was? But you do invest your money in stocks or bonds don't you? Why couldn't you have invested 1% of your capital in BTC in 2018? Just treat it as one of those investments which went well?


Why would I, for any other reason than to expand my wealth?




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