This evening, I spent about an hour talking with my wife about the potential for our cryptonized future and where things might be headed. I was trying to explain various aspects to her about what I am doing and how I spend the time, what kinds of applications and things I am using and what kinds of streams are incoming and outgoing, - but mostly, I was trying to get her to understand the ramifications of all of this as a whole, not just on our lives, but everyone's.
While she kind of listened, she doesn't really find any part of it interesting and added, that I shouldn't talk about it with anyone, as most people aren't interested. Fair call, she is right - however I also find it a strange thing that she is right, because the things I am talking about, are important to pretty much everyone. When I talk about them with friends, it isn't because I am trying to get them into an MLM scam, nor get them to buy any particular token. In fact, there is nothing in it for me at all, other than more work that I know they aren't interested in.
I listen to people talk about their houses, their cars, what they watched on TV, their mundane work, their crappy boss, their crappy colleague, the latest phone they bought, what they read in the news, their thoughts on the latest social movement, the meme they saw on Twitter, the restaurant where they didn't like the service, the concert that disappointed them, their kid's recital, a stomach ache.
But I mention my hobby...
Perhaps it is because talking about "money" is a taboo topic, even though we all generally feel we need more of it and it weighs on our minds, especially when we have others for which we are responsible. Maybe it is because people don't want to talk to their friends about this kind of thing, as it is too personal, even if they have told you in the past that they cheated on their partner. It could be about authority too, where I don't carry enough in the field of finance to be worth listening to. There are many reasons to not want to talk about it with me, but there is one reason for me to talk about it with them - I want the best for them.
I was talking to a friend a couple years ago who has been in crypto for a long time and doesn't have to work again out of necessity, leaving them to pick and choose their life path. What he mentioned was in the early days of Bitcoin when he was espousing the future, his friends essentially told him to Eff the Eff off, with that shit, but a few years later when BTC was sitting around 20K, they were pissed off that he didn't help them get in, and now they are not friends with him, because they missed their opportunity. But then it went back to 3000 - and they didn't buy then either, because of course, Bitcoin is dead, and it is already too late for them - the hype is over. Up to 64K, down to 28K, up to 60K today - I wonder if any of them have bought yet?
But I think that mostly, people just feel uncomfortable talking about financial opportunities openly, as if everything money-related has to be some big secret. It is silly, but part of our social and cultural conditioning, where we have been so convinced and encouraged not to talk about money that we avoid learning about finance at all, even as we struggle to pay our bills and send kids to their hobbies due to a lack of available resources.
Weird isn't it?
People are happy to complain about how expensive something is that they have to pay for, yet aren't interested in ways of easing their burden. People don't want a cure, they just want a pill to easy the pain - that way they can still have an excuse to fallback on. Hearing about opportunities makes them uncomfortable, because they know they aren't going to take them. It is far easier to ignore or criticize instead of putting some skin in the game.
One of the reasons that most people don't invest into crypto is, because they don't participate in crypto conversations with people already in crypto and take their advice to try it. Back in the past, "trying meant buying" for most people, but that is not the case now and there are plenty of ways to try before you buy, wit no risk - but, how many do?
I have a few colleagues that are into gaming and one of them got into crypto about two years ago and has since ramped up. However, from when we started talking about it together three years ago, I have mentioned Splinterlands as something he should look at, since he likes that kind of thing. I have talked about it many times and shown him the site and sent him the links a couple times, even though I didn't play myself. Did he pay 10 dollars for a starter pack?
No.
If he had, he would have been using his investment rather than just staring at a Bitcoin chart thinking he is in the game. If he had, he would have likely bought a few packs, played some games and when I bought in four months ago, he would have been one of the larger accounts in the waters, because, it is the kind of game he would enjoy and he would have got a taste of what utility in crypto is like, not futility, which is staring charts and waiting for moon.
"Don't tell me about it" seem to be people's go to attitude with opportunity if it means that they have to do something to take it. If it doesn't fall into their lap, if it isn't handed to them on silver platter, they'd rather not hear.
But it is disappointing when friends don't listen. Not just because they are missing an opportunity I think they would benefit from and be able to improve their lives and empower others, but because they are not interested in hearing about what I am obviously very enthusiastic about. While people expect to have an interest taken in what they are interested in, whether it be their latest diet or the course they are doing on flower arrangement, they aren't willing to give any reciprocity. Even the people who are interested in investing and finance and will harp on about the gold they hold or the "high percentage" they got on their blue-chip stocks - when it comes to crypto, or anything crypto related, they ask no questions and their ears close, because they have heard it all before.
They know all about it. They know it is a scam, has no utility, uses a lot of energy, will never be adopted by the mainstream, is too complicated for normal people to use, is illegal, is banned in China, is unable to scale, is slow... the list goes on. Why listen when you already know everything you need to know about it? When people know so much about crypto and don't see the opportunity - the people who do see opportunity in it are obviously not worth listening to, because they are wrong.
One day... I'm gonna have to buy new friends.
Taraz
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