Topic: I am a member of this community, I am running for US House of Representatives. (Read 171 times)

Nice to meet you. I'm of the opinion that vacationing outside the country once in a while opens up your mind to the international affairs and cultures of the world, so it's really beneficial.


I find it surprising that although the work visa applications are difficult enough for those immigrating to work, these people are often the ones facing discrimination at work; women and blacks in particular. That just makes it harder for them to find a healthy environment to earn a sustainable living in. I'm sure earning enough money to pay the mortgages, the bills, send the kids to school, and have some left is the goal of most of them, rather than the often-discussed American dream.


Have you seen https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ ? It visualizes the wealth of Jeff Bezos and the top 400 richest Americans. I'm sure he doesn't have that much wealth now, but it's kind of scary how it makes someone's $1billion net worth look tiny in comparison, to saynothing about the average household income, and how almost nothing is being done with it. One could argue that most of the money is tied in stocks that are slow to liquidate, but at the same time, you see all these bitcoin addresses with billions of USD cropping up as the price hikes, which is slower to liquid as well. It will be interesting to see what community members who are fortunate enough to still hold that much bitcoin do with all that money, when the bitcoin prices reaches a point to match the wealth of the richest.

Regarding unions I have something to say about that later soon once I get back here.

Gene Redinger - Northwest Ohio, my district isn't drawn yet. The commission to draw districts has just been formed. Census data was either released yesterday at 1 PM or today at 1 PM [I'm not sure off the top of my head, so we can finally start looking at drawing the districts].

Abolishing work isn't beyond radical. Parkinson's Law shows that people will fill the time elsehow. As we trend towards full automation, work becomes no longer necessary. The 40 hour work week is over 100 years old - it's outdated. We can move towards abolishing work by shortening the work week. Hours in the office doesn't mean hours of productivity anyway.

Considering people still die at work, nah. There's plenty of safety concerns at companies. Considering companies still pay min wage [$7.25 an hour or less for tipped workers], I think unfair wage practices still exist.
Considering it took how many laborers dying to start collectively bargain [everyone walking off instead of individuals], I think unions are absolutely required. The evolution of unions would be co-ops, in which the laborers take ownership of the company.

Right now, labor is strong. That might not be the case 12 months from now. Even with strong labor, folks are still dying, folks are underpaid, and we still need to work together to balance the status quo.

I am curious who you are, and what district you are running in.

I would be happy to debate you on policy, but I am sorry, this is a radical, crazy position. Not everyone who is talented is going to be successful, some people choose to not take risks for a variety of reasons, and some people happen to have good (or bad) luck that results in changes to their success when compared to others.

Unions are also an outdated concept. Gone are the days that companies would subject employees to dangerous working conditions, and unfair wages. The former is due to both a long-term competitive labor market and laws such as OSHA. The later is due to a competitive labor market, and the FLSA. Labor unions have a long history of curruption, and embezzlement. As an additional example as to why labor unions are unnecessary, at the beginning of the pandemic, many (non-unionized) farm workers who were illegal immigrants, walked off the job due to concerns about working conditions related to covid...bear in mind that unemployment was at the time expected to reach 25%. If the most vulnerable employees can successfully neogeoiate improved working conditions during a time of mass unemployment, there is absolutatly no reason for a union to exist.

You're right regarding politicians. A lot of them will say what people want to hear. I'm way different in that regard; I'll speak my mind regardless of public opinion.

There's a lot of wealth in the bitcoin community. Even a few satoshi from a few users makes it all worth the while. Interestingly enough, people can donate cryptocurrency as an in-kind contribution [there's even a special form for it].

The vast majority of politicians are old, outdated, and really don't understand technology. I'm from a technology background so I have a pretty indepth understanding of most of it. Now, I'm still not a fan of proof-of-stake; and I see proof-of-work as being much better, albeit I'd rather see proof-of-capacity as the proof of work instead of just hashing.

Thanks for the best wishes.

Like they said, politicians will always be politicians, they know how to tell people what they want just to get them on there side, I hope you're not just saying all this to get our mind but truly what to improve the life of your people. While I was reading your thread, I can see someone that believe in bitcoin from the get go so good lock. Well I don't think you election would have much contributions from this forum unless you're planning on getting some citizens from the forum to join your campaign team by volunteering.

I don't know how election campaigns are done at your end but I do hope you come out with a great campaign strategy to emerge the winner of the election. It would be nice having Bitcoin enthusiast in the government so we can get some break, there attack on the community is just too much. Good luck again.

I can't stand the spam in Politics & Society - I'm posting here to avoid the shitposts and spam that is normally generated in those threads. If moderators want to move it, tough shit. Deal with my 'advertisement' here or meta.

I actually have a Legendary account here; it was compromised when the forum was compromised. I haven't retrieved the account, nor do I care to revive the internet handle [a past that should remain buried]. It had +1 trust from default trust even.

I've hit 7 blocks on my hardware; rewards of 50 bitcoin per block at the time.. I was unlucky in the grand scheme of things. Luckily, I mined using deepbit, and using PPS, I was able to earn ~520 bitcoin mining [sorry other miners on that pool, I guess].

My connection to this community is over a decade.
I have 3 accounts; my main, the main's alt [both using a dead internet handle], and this account linked to my real life name.

However, this isn't what the thread is about.

The thread is about doing good for this world.

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I have a few strange and radical beliefs. One of those beliefs is that Satoshi isn't from our time. The universe has been modified quite dramatically since we started observing quantum... things. The observation alone changes the outcome; and there's an infinite balance this universe achieves even throughout all the chaos.

Blockchain is more than just a transaction ledger; it's the communication pathway. It's the infinite Rosetta Stone for all modern times. I hold a less than 1 BTC but more than .5 BTC; not to spend, but to embed my autobiography for all of time in this universe; to provide message and information to folks.

I'll be holding onto these Satoshis long after the value of "Satoshi" is considered massive relative to whatever resource people are consuming at the moment.

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I hold many contradicting beliefs to this community.

I believe Bitcoin was meant to be democratic; to give power to the people; not to be centralized. I think that ASICs for Proof-of-Work was a net-negative to bitcoin as a whole. I feel as though Bitcoin was supposed to be accessible to the masses; not to the few.

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Our planet is dying. Gaea is dying.  She'll have a choice; kill her children to save herself; or die and let her children die. It's a choice she's made before.

Humanity is power, powerful enough to overcome even Gods themselves. We have the ability to mobilize to save Gaea and ourselves.

The will of the people is not there to realize this. They're more concerned with how to survive in this technological gilded age. The rich get richer; the poor get poorer. Capital Accumulation just works this way.

The problem is the rich don't seem to care if this planet dies or not; they devil they deal with convinces them this planet isn't worth living, and it won't be their problem.

As a child, I bonded with nature; I talked to animals, I communicated my feelings and emotions blindly to them. I slept under the stars for years during my infancy; looking up in the clear night sky, seeing thousands of stars.

There wasn't the light pollution that exists today.

The air was cleaner; I breathed better. Gaea was healthier; but she still yearned for life. She was dying, but the humans didn't really care; it wasn't even in the top 5 of their concerns.

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America's healthcare system is beyond broken. The for-profit motivation of the healthcare industry is absolutely disgusting.

The idea that an individual should be impoverished because they were born sickly is absolutely inhumane. It's absolutely bonkers this society allows the social murder of these individuals.

If humans mobilized; and worked together, we could actually defeat death entirely.

Death should be an individual's choice; not something nature can force upon us. Not even a dozen Maruts can stop a single human from exercising their choice to live ad infinitum. Not even the heat death of this universe will stop us from continuing to live.

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Humans are way too distracted by social media. We're also distracted by trying to make ends meet. We have the technological capability to automate the vast majority of work; we also have the ability to just fix it ourselves the vast majority of time.

However, humans toil away; wasting their precious time; their finite time at the office.

No one ever wished they spent more time at the office while laying in their deathbed.

America is radically unique; we don't have paid vacation leave by law. No company has to give their employees paid leave.

It's an utter disgrace that the vast majority of Americans never leave the country; a huge chunk don't even have passports.

We need to be the leaders in labor; abolishing work [as we know it] should be an objective of society. How many people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops? Far too many; even today, we toil away, burning our precious time just to live, just to exist.

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Education and knowledge are protected behind paywalls. If you're in the "in", you're in. If you're not, good luck with your ignorance. The younger folks are scaling the walls to gain access to that knowledge. Entities like Sci-Hub are creating holes in the wall that allow those who are curious to peak inside and see the wonders of the folks who stand on the shoulders of giants.

We need to tear down these walls and allow open access to all of humanity's knowledge; to want this knowledge to be shared and improved upon by others. Not in secrecy or for competitive means, but to collaborate to build together a better future for all of us and not just those who want to stand the tallest.

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America is #1 in prisoner population. We're #1!! We're not even close to #1 in population, but we sure have more prisoners than they do. Woo! Yay us. The land of the free has the most folks locked up.

This is manufactured. When we abolished slavery; we left in a loophole... just make inprison them.

Prisoners are stripped of their rights; they no longer are valid citizens. If the government wants to strip these rights from you; you have zero recourse afterwards.

It's absolutely sickeningly that a single abusive prick can ruin the rest of your life; they hold the authority to plant evidence and ensure your civil rights are quashed. The worst bit is when these abusers are recorded and evidences provided that highlights their abuses; the fraternity of abusers defends them.

I'm surprised they even can focus at work considering the rate at which they beat their wives.

You want to abolish crime? Abolish poverty.

When you're hungry, hot, and exhausted, and tired of life; you stop giving a fuck about others. You just want what's best for you; fuck society. Hell, even the corporate overlords shows this in their snicker's commercials.

The idea that 50% of folks in prisons are there because of non-violent offenses is absolutely disgusting. People making personal choices that only impact themselves, and other consenting adults are stripped of their freedoms.

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America is an imperialistic empire. We have several colony states we maintain. Do we actually own Israel or do they own us? Well, it depends on who's in charge in the moment; and who's made what promises.

You want to build a better society for everyone? Stop fucking trying to capture every single piece of land for yourself. Allow others to live. Work with them to help them thrive.

America's war path is  never ending; we'll never stop fighting in West Asia under any administration. The cold war never ended, it just shifted to digital mediums because traditional methods of engagement were... well, non-effective.

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I believe America is the best country in the world; not because I was born here, but because how it was built. It was built by immigrants, for immigrants, with the help of immigrants.

The idea that "I got mine, now go somewhere else" is absolutely counterintuitive to building a better nation for us. I believe that anyone should be able to attain the American dream regardless of where they were born. It really goes back to the previous comments; how many great minds exists in sweatshops or fields, they'll have the opportunity to create a better nation for us all.

The bars of entry into this nation should be low; the amount of support we give these folks to transition to the American way of living should be high.


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Here's the rub; if I tell you any of these policy names, you'll instantly hate them. The mass media has manufactured consent regarding these concepts. You're inherently opposed to them because the billionaires with megaphones told you to hate them.

You're a sheep. Satoshi wasn't a sheep; he was ready to overthrow the billionaires, but it wasn't their moment.

The billionaires legalized foreign slavery; they legalized domestic slavery. They enjoy the legalized serfs; it makes them richer.

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I'll leave you with a quote... from a leader that I'll disagree with on many topics;

"This is a moment to dream big, to rethink our priorities - what we value, what we want, what we seek, and to commit to act in our daily life on what we have dreamed of."