Do I regret turning down VC money? Not for a second.
VC funding is fast growth paid for by betraying your day-one users and abandoning your principles. That's always the trade.
I'll choose failure over selling out every time.
This community actually matters to me, and I mean that.
If I didn't care about you or the fediverse, I would have sold out long ago.
You deserve better. ❤️
Mast Alternative money
@dansup CONGRATS - Next level up I think is about getting people to see that all money is a devaluing mousetrap, or there is a better pot to piss in.
In other words using less what abuses us, and using more what is like the software we use...
Money was 'given' as debt / created to oppress and devalue people... it's not a coincidence that all states copy the same template despite being smoetimes wildly different in traditions and culture... the culture of money is a monopoly to create devaluation in the power they give (and can take it away using %'s and regulators).
Time to think about our own Currency as the next level up / tool which will OPEN all other other "tech-tree" levels of the game between people in different ways (people using / abusing money too much means we need something else).
I can help develop something p2p-ish where we keep our own values with more like-minded people... to work for us overall not band and States who skim money from every transaction or remotely attack currency by adding to the pool to devalue it, speculate and gamble while adjusting rates all the while...
Another currency between the people.... Let's talk...
