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My master is satoshi: keep your OPSEC clean, behave, do not do harm and, eventually, disappear. There is an old saying: If you want to hide the treasure, put it in plain sight. Then no one will see it.

I have no master and I thank Satoshi among others for this reality.

Either you are close to reaching "fuck you" status, or you have already reached it.

Either of those scenarios would be good newses.

Alternatively, you wrongly believe that you have reached "fuck you" status in regards to you are in a kind of denial state about possible "master(s)" that you are failing/refusing to recognize or grant proper credit(s). That would suck. Cry

Fuck you status is a state of mind I have been in my entire life. Wink

Other variables as you pointed out can make that status easier to attain.

O.k..

I will concede to that way of framing the matter because it also ties to living within one's means, which causes options, and of course, there could be higher thresholds that provide for greater options, such as getting rid of the mandatory JOB, and causing the job to become more of an option.

Shouldn't we also recognize that there are a decent number of people who are stuck in various kinds of JOBs, but they mentally frame the matter in such a way that causes them to accept that they do not have very many options.

I remember having times in which I was performing pretty menial and denigrating jobs, but I had various kinds of ways to make myself feel good about the matter - and surely even to feel like I was enjoying the matter.

Perhaps the devil is in the details, and surely I am having some difficulties arguing with you in regards to these points, because sometimes people do put too much emphasis into all or nothing achievements, but there surely are scenarios in which the introduction to bitcoin and thereafter taking meaningful investment actions would later lead to greater states of empowerment and options merely because the investment made returns that were way beyond any other investment asset that you had been holding.

So, from your forum registration, I will presume that both you and I got into bitcoin at a very similar time, so I will use late 2013 as a hypothetical investment date.

So that would provide nearly a 7 year investment time horizon.

Let's say that we are living largely paycheck to paycheck and with modest savings and modest investments that allow us to largely cover all of our expenses on a regular basis and we have enough savings that we could live for 6 months without a paycheck and/or cover various emergency expenditures. We are not richie in absolute terms, but we are not really suffering in any kind of meaningful way. We are feeling relatively happy about our ability to support ourselves with a kind of peace of mind.

When we get introduced to bitcoin, we feel relatively positive about the ideas behind bitcoin, and we want to act in some kind of way to support bitcoin, just in case something might positive happen with bitcoin in the future. We do not really feel that we have any kind of large amount that we could lump sum invest into bitcoin, but we do feel that we could scrounge up $10 per week on a regular basis and invest that $10 per week into bitcoin without really missing it.

So, after 7 years of $10 per week, we have invested about $3,660 into bitcoin, and that 7 years of relative modest investing into BTC has given us way more options (of a $51K pool of funds to draw from) rather than what we would have been able to achieve through regular gold or stock investments that would have merely just held their value, relative to inflation and not really gotten us much, even though in nominal terms they would have been at about $5,550 and $5,000 respectively. See DCA BTC link for such current reference to such investment scenario.

So largely, I am conceding. There are ways that someone in a situation like yours could have not quite reached "fuck you" status when entering into bitcoin and may not even have quite reached a pure objective "fuck you" status, but bitcoin providing quite a few more options, especially after 7 years-ish of mere modest investing and sticking-withit-ness.