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I'm tired of buying products and services that clearly show how little I mean to the seller. Fortunately, I've been able to replace most of the garbage with better stuff over the past several years. @SoapMiner is one great example. You can tell that the consumer is important because the product is squared away. Good ingredients, packaging, construction, etc. It arrives and all I have to do is wash away the dirty aspects of my own work. The product helps me focus on providing value instead of fixing another broken product. @Ben Justman🍷 and his wine is another. When I need wine, I order his. Why? I don't get headaches. I don't feel like garbage when I drink it. It tastes wonderful. The packaging is beautiful. He doesn't cut corners. He cares about the product, and therefore the consumer. I haven't needed a new wallet yet, but when I do, @Leathermint is on the radar for that. I'm seeing the same good traits in that builder. Alternatives to legacy social media built on #Nostr helped me find these people, making it clear that there's room for a completely parallel world to the fiat system. I don't remember where I was going with this (typical 😂), so thanks to the producers giving me good products. I'm sure there are many others on Nostr that I'm unaware of or haven't purchased from yet.

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↩ replying to Ben Justman🍷
I realized recently that the consumer side is just as important as the producer side. I'm actually casting a vote in the market every time I buy something. So if I keep buying shit instead of quality (if I don't have to - it would be unfair to say everyone can or should by the best things no matter what), I'm voting for shit. I can't go on to complain when I had a choice and made the wrong one.
↩ replying to Matt⚕️
its a weird feeling as you realise that. your old fiat behaviour was based on always earning and saving from a deflationary income. You seek cheap, compare prices, collect reward points, stamps, tokens and stickers. It drives nearly every decision from what you eat to what job you choose, where you choose to travel etc. Quality will return and it will start with bitcoiners which is pretty cool as well.
This is why we keep bees in horizontal hives, and never treat with anything. Less stress for them and us, never dealing with miticide, sugar water, only allowing them to live like bees do naturally, etc. I like less work and a superior product, even if we may get less volume yearly. Quality over quantity.
This is why we keep bees in horizontal hives, and never treat with anything. Less stress for them and us, never dealing with miticide, sugar water, only allowing them to live like bees do naturally, etc. I like less work and a superior product, even if we may get less volume yearly. Quality over quantity.
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↩ replying to BTCbeeRancher
I'm sure there are some benefits to mass production, but if given the choice, I prefer better quality. Honey is one of those things. I remember honey tasting a lot different back when I bought the cheapest stuff. I doubt it was even pure honey. And it never did what real honey does. I've noticed that with a lot of foods since I started paying attention.
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I make exceptional nut butter spreads that you simply can't find in stores. I also craft Hodl Bars built around dates and chocolates - each one made with real intent, genuine love, and creative care. I'm always looking to branch out and expand, incorporating new recipes and working alongside other cacao makers in the space to create exceptional chocolates together.
Fiat forces most people to cheat to get ahead. With bitcoin, a low time preference, and morals, we can all build the world we want to live in. Bitcoin demands quality, otherwise, why spend it? I know it sounds cliche, but... You don't change bitcoin, it changes you.
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↩ replying to SoapMiner
Fiat is actually what changes people into unnatural beings. All Bitcoin really does is purify us back down into what we actually are; creative, intelligent beings who are rewarded for virtue and punished for bad action. Fiat perverts that natural state and flips the results. So really, Bitcoin is only changing me back into what I was born to be.