I'm learning a bit about markets and technical analysis; that's going to be my primary coping mechanism for the time being, since I might actually make some money doing it.
I think that the mental-health benefits actually are The Real Shit. It's good be wrap your mind around stuff that's happening in meatspace in a way that positions you to benefit, rather than just passively absorbing information about why your thoughts and opinions don't matter in the big big world.
Libertarians don't understand how the economy works; low-to-moderate inflation is Good, Actually.
Inflation makes stonks go up, and also provides a slight discount on interest-bearing debts. Everybody has debt; and if you don't, then your customers do. If you own or develop property, you need loose credit so that people can buy your assets.
As long as real inflation is lower than Treasury interest and real GDP growth, then nobody is actually losing their savings due to inflation.
You know what's really bad? Deflation. That's when an 8% loan requires, in effect, 10% or 13% interest to repay because money is more scarce and more valuable. If you have no debts at all, and if you own a restaurant or a car dealership or any business that relies on consumer's discretionary spending, you are fucked.
I regret my lolbert phase honestly. Wish I was more tradmasculine (at least in mentality, and possibly in terms of an earned physique) when I was younger and more impressionable.
When the bartering economy first emerged from the agrarian economy, people high and low understood that being a professional barter-er was a privilege, not a right.
Making a living as a barterer depended upon having friendly relations with our tribe's chieftain, and the neighboring tribes' chieftain as well. If the neighboring chieftain says "I want one tenth of your surplus shells, from trading with my kin, each harvest season" it is well within his rights. And well within his rights to banish you from his realm if you don't comply.
The competing interests between the warrior caste and the merchant caste is nothing new. It's easy to say "well, the warriors just stab us with pointy things and the merchants bring us shiny baubles, so clearly the former are stealing value from the latter."
That mentality itself is a form of modernist degeneracy; our Bronze Age ancestors didn't believe this. When the first crops were cultivated, they understood their harvest depends upon their ability to retain possession of their land, and that they have a collective responsibility to support their warrior class.
That's just American exceptionalism and frontier society at play. America is free-ish because the founding stock encountered no formal military hierarchy, at all, from then enemy camp when they conquered this land. That's why they believed in low taxes and unregulated markets.
North America is exceptional because it was the final hunter-gather society that gave way to agrarianism. All others had given way thousands of years ago in the bronze age collapse.
I think that the bluestate soycialist propagandists and bureaucrats are primarily scamming the $27 donations out of demographics that deserve to be scammed. Natural slaves and all that.
State authority naturally emerges from the martial classes. Who formed this government? Who formed the first government?
I actually am a bit pessimistic that black-letter constitutionalism will hold, for the duration of my lifetime.
"The First Amendment says" isn't going to protect you. Eventually it's going to matter whether or not we're bold enough that we won't shut up, even when they tell you to.
There's some projects I need to finish with AI chats, there's some shit I wanna learn with crypto and markets, but I need to get some shit done IRL as well. Most importantly, I need to do something about my health. I haven't been eating solid food most days, just protein shakes. The caffeine I take for focus and attention (among other issues) messes up my appetite.
I'm going to take my misskey offline in a few days, since I'm not likely to receive any replies or notifications for my existing posts, after that. I'll turn it back on and check in September.