billymg[asciilifeform]: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2024-07-21#1033666 << any guesses as to who is actually holding the keys?
bitbot[asciilifeform]: Logged on 2024-07-21 19:13:07 asciilifeform[jonsykkel|billymg]: luly 'elite' where there's a sumbody-else-sumwhere 'holding elite's coin' eh
billymg[asciilifeform]: maybe that's why they have segwit, so that if somebody 'steals' their coins, can reverse it and claim Rule of Law™ prevails!
billymg[asciilifeform]: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2024-07-21#1033667 << you can be well off and not be a lizard, been that way always and likely always will be. i can't imagine a world where it's only a child-raping satanic ruling class and a packed-like-sardines slave class
bitbot[asciilifeform]: Logged on 2024-07-21 19:14:05 asciilifeform[jonsykkel|billymg]: http://logs.bitdash.io/pest/2024-07-21#1033659 << lizards, helps to remember, aint lizards because they profitably hodl/trade xyz asset -- but rather in reverse
billymg[asciilifeform]: a healthy middle class, in whatever form it takes, is necessary to legitimize the ruling class so they aren't simply dragged from their towers
asciilifeform: billymg: asciilifeform not disagrees categorically, but notes that the lizard vs plebe pov re what constitutes 'sufficient middle class' do differ
dulapbot: (asciilifeform) 2022-03-15 asciilifeform: ... from reich pov, plebes having savings is a bug, similarly to resistive losses in electric cable. 'pieces of yacht that got diverted'
asciilifeform: ... and the difference becomes moar visible as the overall reich economic belt tightens
asciilifeform in a wash dc suburb, and last saw a freestanding house built 10+y ago. while kommunalkas are going up by the 1000-unit tower at rate of 2-3/yr
asciilifeform: (communal flats, explicitly rated for 2 or 4 payers on lease, with that-many bathrooms etc)
asciilifeform recalls american fishwraps & lit, circa '80s and prior, demonstrantively gasping in horror at ru kommunalkas & the rigours of life therein