#FreeSchool=Learning Together<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@benroyce" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>benroyce</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@KarlinEcuador" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>KarlinEcuador</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>gerrymcgovern</span></a></span> I agree Ben. </p><p>I think it also comes from us not having found ways to <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/respect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>respect</span></a> each other enough and seemingly still needing <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/abstract" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>abstract</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/numbers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>numbers</span></a> (banks or bitcoin) to think we're exchanging well... </p><p>Using <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/cruel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cruel</span></a> / materially-tied / burning ways to keep burning people and more material to make our exchange <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/valid" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>valid</span></a> is a bit of a sick design and sick / destructive <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/proofofwork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>proofofwork</span></a> thing by how much our currency has eaten - <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/primitive" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>primitive</span></a> let's say - but it serves us to have visible <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/digits" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digits</span></a> when we think we are worth 10 or 100 but when the face value of a bank or bitcoin does not match the real value even the next week or the next year. In fact the opposite by design (devalues is taking away continually to keep us working instead of potential giving more in another sense / not devaluing both of us EACH TIME we had 'currency' to each other).</p><p>Naturally or as more man-made creations, everything needs <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/consumption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>consumption</span></a> to be <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/transformed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>transformed</span></a> into something else more <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/visible" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>visible</span></a> / <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/static" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>static</span></a>... </p><p>The point is we don't really value non-material or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/mind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mind</span></a> things (at all or as much)... <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/friendship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>friendship</span></a> or even creating them from such a large pool, all with their own resources we could use (potentially).</p><p>So the whole thing as my main point is that more personally we seem to need these 'numbers' or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/false" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>false</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/accounting" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>accounting</span></a> techniques instead to represent things falsely (accept being tricked for those who know about Banks) and not looking for other ways... </p><p>Both <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/banks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>banks</span></a> or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/bitcoin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bitcoin</span></a> doing the bad things for us, much rather than in parallel finding how to <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/respect" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>respect</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/people" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>people</span></a> or <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/planet" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>planet</span></a> more even along side these existing things that we can't change... even as a side <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/project" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>project</span></a>.</p><p>If we're not doing that - it's kind of messed up. Is it not?</p><p>We have to learn sometime "how bad" these things are now but in short they made from crude <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/war" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>war</span></a> from their root (<a href="https://qoto.org/tags/money" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>money</span></a> / <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/energy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>energy</span></a> / computational resource consumption) we should have seen 100 times already... so as a root of all <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/evil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>evil</span></a> they are all self-validating methods (money to justify paying <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/tax" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>tax</span></a> (money existing as the whole reason to pay tax) or bitcoin as a long-winded energy burn in order to avoid bad people doing over-night banks or monitoring our own private life and <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>privacy</span></a> .</p><p>'Giving' something to others is not easy. There is more to it but not working on it is one main point we could start on now (I am as <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/FreeSchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSchool</span></a>).</p><p>Without that change, we are continuing the use by not trying for another way of exchange or value, and we seem to end up to serving the bad because we don't have an answer and not looking to creating something better than bitcoin / banks. </p><p>Not even conversation past hating these things (less Trump etc) and building more each other in some other sense.... would be nice.</p><p>Let's all talk more about the next generation$... <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/FreeSchool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FreeSchool</span></a> </p><p>Picture1: Bitcoin <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/genesis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>genesis</span></a> <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/block" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>block</span></a> by <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/SatoshiNakamoto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SatoshiNakamoto</span></a> - Times newspaper headline about bank <a href="https://qoto.org/tags/bailouts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bailouts</span></a> in code.</p>