Here’s When I Block People on Facebook

00:01 Hey everyone. I almost never block
00:03 anyone on Facebook, but the only thing
00:05 that actually would lead me to block
00:07 someone is if I detect that they is they
00:10 have absolutely zero open-mindedness
00:13 whatsoever. Now, I know that the
00:14 Facebook algorithm prefers dump dumpster
00:17 fires. So, the Facebook algorithm wants
00:19 people to post controversial stuff that
00:22 gets everybody stirred up, that gets
00:24 everybody’s heart rate high, and just
00:25 gets everybody sort of fighting with
00:27 each other in the comments. That is what
00:28 Facebook wants. But that is not what I
00:30 want from Facebook. What I want from
00:32 Facebook is a community of engaged
00:36 intellectual people who are curious who
00:38 want to figure out what is Bitcoin and
00:40 how do I use it to combat inflation? Uh
00:44 how do I make it how do I use it to make
00:46 my life better? So I will spend hours
00:48 and hours and hours every day helping
00:50 people understand about Bitcoin,
00:53 answering their questions. Uh people are
00:55 constantly messaging me with questions
00:56 about Bitcoin or what about this or what
00:59 about that or have I thought about this
00:60 and in most cases I’ve already done a
01:02 video about whatever their question is.
01:03 So I just send them a link to the video
01:04 I’ve already done. I will spend hours
01:06 and hours and hours doing that. But I
01:08 have zero patience for people who are
01:10 closed-minded that want to stir the pot.
01:13 So I probably only block someone about
01:15 every month or two on Facebook. But if
01:17 somebody posts, if somebody starts
01:18 posting snarky, stupid stuff that’s
01:21 intended to to stir the pot, then my um
01:24 my immediate question is, is this person
01:28 even onetenth of 1% open-minded? Like,
01:31 is there any possibility that I can have
01:33 a productive conversation with this
01:35 person? Or are they so close-minded that
01:38 anything I respond to is going to be a
01:41 complete waste of my time and their
01:43 time? Now, obviously, they posted it
01:44 because they want to waste their time,
01:46 but my time’s too valuable to waste on
01:47 people who want to waste my time, so I
01:49 don’t do that. Um, so anyway, so if
01:51 somebody makes a post about something
01:53 where I can tell that it’s like they
01:55 have no interest in learning more, they
01:57 are completely close-minded. Uh, and the
01:59 example I’ve given before was this guy
02:01 named Jim, the very first person I ever
02:03 blocked on Facebook. He was constantly
02:05 posting snarky stuff on my Facebook uh
02:07 comments. And so, I reached out to him,
02:09 you know, privately on Facebook
02:10 Messenger, and he lives in central
02:12 Mississippi. and I offered to take him
02:13 to lunch and I offered him $100 of free
02:15 Bitcoin and, you know, I told him it was
02:17 no expense to him and I’d love to, you
02:18 know, have a conversation with him and
02:20 he kept saying, “No, no, no. I’m I I
02:22 don’t I don’t have really I don’t have
02:23 any interest. I don’t I don’t want to
02:24 learn at all.” But then he wouldn’t stop
02:26 posting. Like every time I’d post, he’d
02:28 have some snarky uh comment that
02:31 indicated his pure ignorance. And then
02:34 I’d reach out to him and say, you know,
02:35 finally by the end, I think it was $300.
02:37 Finally, I reached out to him and was
02:38 like, “Jim, I will pay I will give you
02:41 $300 of free Bitcoin and a free lunch.
02:45 Just have a dialogue with me to see if,
02:47 you know, to see if I can convince you
02:48 that there’s something worth being
02:49 open-minded about.” And he was like,
02:51 “No, no, no. I’m way too busy.” You
02:53 know, actually, he was retired. He
02:54 wasn’t, he wasn’t even busy. He was just
02:56 like, “Uh, I’m too old. I’m too old to
02:58 uh, you know, to be messing with this
02:59 stuff.” It’s like, “Well, you’re clearly
03:01 he’s not too old to be posting
03:02 constantly on my Facebook page.” So
03:04 anyway, so he kept making excuses that
03:06 he was too old and he couldn’t, you
03:08 know, I don’t know, he was he wasn’t
03:10 even old, you know, he was, you know, he
03:13 he was he very easily could have
03:15 understood Bitcoin and, you know, it
03:18 could have used it to make his life much
03:20 better, but he was so 100% close-minded
03:23 that once it became absolutely
03:24 positively clear that there was nothing
03:26 I could possibly do to have a productive
03:28 dialogue, ultimately he posted one last
03:31 time and then I blocked him. And uh so
03:33 anyway, so it happens rarely, but now
03:35 and then somebody, you know, they’ll
03:37 they’ll typically post if they’re uh you
03:39 know, if if they’re close-minded,
03:41 they’ll go post snarky stuff on like
03:43 two, three, four, five of my uh of my
03:45 posts at a time. And it’s like they woke
03:48 up one day with a chip on their
03:49 shoulder. And I’ll go through the posts
03:50 and, you know, sometimes I’ll respond to
03:52 one of them. Sometimes I’ll try to have
03:53 a dialogue, but as soon as it’s clear to
03:56 me that this person is a lost cause, I
03:58 have no time to spend with people who
04:00 are lost causes. if they want to be
04:02 close-minded and they want to lose, at
04:05 some point you just got to let them
04:06 lose. I mean, you can’t convince
04:08 somebody to win who really wants to just
04:10 be close-minded. I mean, people some
04:12 people are just so close-minded to new
04:14 ideas that there is absolutely nothing
04:16 you can do to convince them. So anyway,
04:17 if you’re ever curious, uh it again, it
04:19 probably only happens every couple
04:20 months or every month or two at most,
04:22 but now and then, uh I get the sense
04:25 that someone is so close-minded and
04:27 unwilling to read a book, unwilling to
04:29 read a long Facebook post, unwilling to
04:32 watch a video, unwilling to engage at
04:34 all, they just showed up and they’re
04:36 positive Bitcoin’s a horrible idea, and
04:38 they don’t want to think about it. Okay.
04:41 Well, then either they can not post on
04:44 my Facebook page or if they keep posting
04:46 on my Facebook page with snarky stupid
04:48 stuff that doesn’t make any sense and
04:50 zero desire to learn, then at some point
04:52 I will clear them out of my Facebook
04:54 page by blocking them so that we can
04:56 keep a positive dialogue about Bitcoin
04:58 by open-minded people. Now, I don’t mind
04:60 if people are skeptical. I’ve told you
05:01 before I love to read uh information
05:04 from Bitcoin skeptics. Like, I love
05:07 reading, you know, entire articles. In
05:09 fact, um I just came across the
05:11 Atlantic. Someone in the Atlantic posted
05:13 a a long article, like long long long
05:16 article sometime this past week, and
05:19 basically it was, you know, the the
05:21 thesis was that cryptocurrency is some
05:23 sort of right-wing conspiracy theory. I
05:25 don’t know, it was ridiculous. But I
05:27 read I meticulously read through the
05:28 whole thing and the conclusion I came to
05:31 at the end of it was wow this person had
05:33 to really really really try hard to
05:35 write a very long article about Bitcoin
05:39 without ever identifying its one useful
05:42 purpose which is as a sound money that
05:44 the government can’t make more of. So
05:46 this person basically was throwing
05:48 grenades every which direction except
05:51 that they never actually attacked
05:52 Bitcoin. They were attacking crypto.
05:54 They were attacking blockchain. They
05:56 were attacking this, they were attacking
05:58 that. They were I mean they were
05:59 attacking attacking every dumb thing you
06:01 could think of. But never once did they
06:04 identify the one thing that gives
06:05 Bitcoin value, which is a it’s a scarce
06:07 new form of digital money. Like that’s a
06:09 whole purpose, you know. So they’re
06:11 going on about NFTTS. They’re going on
06:12 about stupid stuff. And never once in
06:14 this article did they even mention
06:17 Bitcoin’s primary value proposition or
06:20 attempt to engage on that at all. They
06:22 just wanted to rant. So, if somebody
06:24 wants to uh have a dialogue, if they are
06:26 even onetenth of 1% open-minded, I’ll
06:29 have a dialogue about Bitcoin with
06:30 anybody about anything, including
06:32 skeptics. I love discussing Bitcoin with
06:34 skeptics uh that are just positive. You
06:37 know, they’ve it’s a scam and it’s a
06:40 it’s a Ponzi scheme and it’s a this and
06:42 it’s a that, it’s a bubble. And it’s
06:44 like, great, let’s let’s have a
06:45 dialogue. I’ll send you the entire
06:46 presentation I did about why Bitcoin’s
06:48 not a bubble. Let’s talk about it. But
06:50 if somebody is so close-minded they can
06:52 they literally their brain cannot
06:55 process one iota of open-mindedness then
06:59 at some point I’m like nope my Facebook
07:01 page is not going to be a dumpster fire.
07:03 It’s going to be a productive dialogue
07:04 by curious people who want to make their
07:06 their lives better because that is who
07:08 Bitcoin is open to. Um Bitcoin will make
07:11 a bunch of close-minded people very poor
07:14 which I think will actually make the
07:15 world a better place. I think the more
07:17 close-minded people that don’t climb on
07:20 the Bitcoin bandwagon, well, great. That
07:22 means the open-minded people have more
07:24 financial resources and the close-minded
07:26 people have less, which I’m okay with
07:28 because the world should, you know, the
07:31 way the world rewards open uh
07:33 entrepreneurship, the world should also
07:36 reward open-mindedness. And if somebody,
07:38 you know, decided back in the 1990s that
07:41 the internet was a fad and they were
07:42 never going to touch it, well, they
07:44 might become poorer if they completely
07:45 ignore the internet and they spent all
07:47 their time criticizing the internet
07:49 while everybody else is using it. Well,
07:50 their life is not going to be as good as
07:52 people who understood the power of the
07:54 internet and started using it earlier.
07:56 But I’m okay with that. That seems to be
07:58 the divine justice of the universe is,
08:01 you know, the more close-minded you are,
08:03 uh, the worse you end up off. And the
08:06 same is playing out in Bitcoin right
08:07 now, literally as we speak. There are
08:10 close-minded people writing articles
08:11 against Bitcoin with no desire to
08:14 understand it or to engage it. And they
08:17 will get poorer over time. Where the
08:19 curious will get, you know, will become
08:21 wealthier and as the as the the curious
08:24 and open-minded find have a solution for
08:27 inflation, the close-minded and the not
08:29 curious don’t. And so that will be
08:31 reflected in the financial resources
08:33 they have to live their lives. Um, so
08:35 thanks for being open-minded. I love the
08:37 uh, you know, the vibrant dialogue I
08:39 have with so many people every day about
08:41 Bitcoin and how productive it is. And I
08:43 figured I’d just give you some context
08:44 that, you know, one in a thousand people
08:46 I interact with are so close-minded that
08:48 it’s not even worth trying. Uh, you got
08:50 to move on to open-minded people because
08:52 there’s plenty of open-minded people in
08:53 the world and the world’s an amazing
08:55 place with tons of people in it. So have
08:56 a great day everyone. Thanks.