ERIC KIM

# Why Bitcoin is All-American

So in a very very interesting shift of things, I guess I’m super pro Trump Donald Trump, because he is super super 1000% pro bitcoin. And also, contrary to what people understand, Donald Trump is anti-war, he wants to immediately stop the war in Ukraine, he actually wants global peace.

This is kind of a little bit shocking to me, because I’m from the liberal Bay area, Alameda Oakland Berkeley I still got my 510 area code number… what that means is that I was always raised in thinking that conservative Republicans were like the devil.

Why? I grew up so poor, why were all these super super rich people super anti-helping out poor people like myself?

And also, I thought that overall, the policies were pro war, ... I always thought that Republicans and conservatives were for war,... in that liberals and Democrats or anti-war?

## Just do the research for yourself

I think the credit card thing that I learned is ultimately… You must just do the research for yourself by yourself.

For example, one big thing that changed my opinion about Donald Trump was watching his talk at the bitcoin conference and also seeing his interview with Joe Rogan. To me the reason why this was so good was that it humanized him, often times whenever we hear news reports or snippets from whatever… It is kind of like bad and evil click bait cherry picking; you will never get a true sensor reality until you watch the raw interview, the full two or three hours or so, uninterrupted, and also encourage watching the actual video footage.

## Make your own choices

I think the number one thing that is very very difficult in politics is that so much of it is predicated on other random political lines. For example, truth be told I still qualify myself as a Democrat and a left leaning liberal, yet… When it comes to individual policies and opinions and thoughts, my personal belief system is actually far more multi variegated.

For example… I’m all about helping poor people, and the like, and I’m not like super anti-taxes either.  if I were a homeowner, I would probably vote yes to increase taxes assuming that the money would go to actually support the public elementary schools.

Yet also what I do believe in support is having individual sovereignty to my bitcoin, without having the government metal in my bitcoin. I am also very anti-centralized digital currency by the US government, I think this is very scary. Essentially if you had a centralized digital bank currency by the American government, this would be worse than big Brother, 1984 in brave New World, having a super baby together.

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So why does this all matter?

I think it matters because ultimately you gotta have somewhere to live, and I’m pretty sure that you do have a certain belief system.

## Bitcoin world peace!

PDF SLIDES: https://erickimphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Saylor_Cantor_Presentation_Nov_2024-1.pdf

Audio: https://erickimphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/The-Red-Wave-Saylor.m4a

All, https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2024/11/17/the-red-wave-saylor/

My simple thought is that one bitcoin should be worth one single family home: https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2024/11/16/1m-a-bitcoin/

Bitcoin, duh! https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2024/11/15/upgrade-your-capital/

the path- https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2024/11/14/retire-with-bitcoin/

pdf, https://erickimphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Bitcoin-Meditations.pdf

# Bitcoin Meditations

I Shall Never Die

Economic Armor

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Suit of armor, and formal suit?

The virtues of working as a team?

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A hybrid, a hybrid between the upside of nature, without any of the downsides? And also the upside of the city?

So one thing that’s super interesting is spending a little bit time here in the mountains, the quasi countryside is that something about the piece of the mornings is surprisingly wonderful and calming to me.

At first, I thought it was kind of a gimmick to be out in nature or whatever, ironically enough, this is even coming from a Boy Scout’s Eagle Scout.

So on one hand, the issue with all these people trying to seek the wilderness I think is a form of escape. They don’t like to be with themselves, so they try to get lost in nature to forget themselves.

I think one of the things that a lot of these overly sentimental week wings suffer from that they think that somehow, nature is God and nature is supreme. As a consequence, they feel this strange guilt about being alive, resources, etc. But I find this to be ridiculous; The truth is, human beings we are supreme, and nature is our slave. To anybody who has made it a virtue that somehow we have to be subservient to nature, to me is kind of a weakling mentality.  the true man has made nature his slave, his pet thing. His matter and mold and clay for wild, fun and playful experimentation!

I think the critical issue here is that people have no idea what to live for, whom to live for, etc. As a consequence, people spend a lot of their lives just wasting it, just wondering and meandering around, with zero insight about themselves, their personal role, their own personal philosophy, their own personal ethics ethos aesthetics and approach to life etc.

And I think what a lot of these people also feel to understand is that there is no ultimate truth or true North to anything; life is like a wonderfully wild creative monster, a beast, full of chaos fun play enjoy. The Indonesian joy of radicalness, playful candor, and unreasonable art?

## I’m the new Nietzsche?

Certainly everyone wants some sort of legacy, some see through their altruism and the virtuality, some try to do it like Mother Teresa, Gandhi etc., other people like Thich Nhat Hanh, Rosa Parks, Martin Luther King Jr., etc. Other people tried to found religions like Saint Paul, Mohammad, Moses, the pharaohs of Egypt etc. I think Plato also tried to create a religion but failed. Same with Socrates and most of the ancient Greeks.

1 single family home : https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2024/11/12/whats-a-bitcoin-worth/

Once you found the golden goose, the golden eggs, the orange goose the orange eggs, hoard them forever! https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2024/11/11/the-orange-swan/

Audio! https://erickimphotography.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/Optionality.m4a

Options options options options options which ones should I pick? https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2024/11/10/optionality-2/

## Seek optionality- https://erickimphotography.com/blog/2024/11/10/optionality-2/

I don’t need to own it, I could just visit it rent it borrow it try it out for the week or weekend!

I think this is also a big thing, we Americans we are so silly in our notion of “ownership“, we both believe that in order to gain legitimacy, we have to “own” the underlying asset.  but I was thinking about it… Never really kind of own anything, maybe besides bitcoin.

Why? So for example let us say that you own a single-family home property whatever, you don’t really 100% owned, you’re just borrowing it from the federal government, the local city government etc. And you’re paying a huge state tax fee local fee tax fee etc.

Also, vehicles automobiles cars etc., as long as you’re sooner or later taking some sort of public Road Highway, freeway etc., you don’t really 100% on your car either because you’re just kind of leasing the rights to use your vehicle on public roads, as long as you had to pay some sort of DMV fee and sticker, you never really 100% own your vehicle.

And also, you still have to pay car insurance, like forever. And once again, vehicle registration fees. Even the fees even though the fees are not super super high, you still gotta pay something.

I think also one of the soccer fallacies is that some people fall victim to this notion of somehow like you buy some sort of RV or truck or converted Mercedes sprinter van and you could somehow turn it into like a mobile house or a mobile RV, and then you could just finally become free travel through the states whatever, etc.… But still you’re kind of a slave because you still have to find somewhere to park at night, you often had to pay a fee to park somewhere, And also, more private things like you gotta pay for sanitation to plumb out your vehicle, you still need to buy food and stuff, etc. This is where I still think it is wiser to just rent an apartment and somewhere desirable where you could just walk everywhere because once again,Americans we were romanticize the idea other great American road trip and being on the road, but still… The ideal strategy is to spend like close to 0% of your time in a car or a vehicle, and you try to instead, spend about 100% of your time walking around outside in the direct light or the direct sun.

So the ideal goal is to find a place or a local or a city or neighborhood or area that you absolutely love like for me in Culver City, the arts district, and you could just 100% pedestrian walk yourself everywhere, just jump on the metro E line if you want, and just go on a drive if you want. 

And once again, location location location location location. I still cannot stress this enough; because of the laws of physics, Los Angeles, Los Angeles traffic; still the most intelligent strategy in life is to find the best location absolutely, in which you never have to drive more than five minutes a day. Or driving just becomes an optional thing; **you could actually live a virtuous 100% pedestrian lifestyle.**

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On creating your own opinion

The ears of Odysseus:

I think the hard thing in today’s world is to create and form and formulate your own opinion. I think the big issue is now, with an over abundance of information data words on the Internet etc.… It is almost entirely impossible to create your own opinion, to own your own opinion.

Also, on some ethical friends; it is actually kind of considered unethical to have your own opinion which is not packed by data facts etc.

Issue is when it comes ethics owning your opinion… Ethics is not rooted in data facts science etc. Rather it is something deeper, more philosophical, deeper harder, more incorruptible. 

## The ethics of owning your own opinion

My personal reading intake is that in today’s world, it is actually considered unethical to have your own opinion. Why? In a world hijacked by academics, constipated fat academics  with PhD‘s