{"id":609661,"date":"2024-03-26T16:05:48","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T20:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=609661"},"modified":"2024-03-26T16:10:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T20:10:52","slug":"a-million-times-cheaper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/26\/a-million-times-cheaper\/","title":{"rendered":"A MILLION TIMES CHEAPER?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Permission-less and open <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">30 pounds of fat, you can go 60 days without eating <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On the other hand, three entrepreneurs in Nigeria on the weekend could create a website that would trade in this Lightning economy using open protocols without asking anybody\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s permission. So you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re talking about something that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like a million times cheaper, less friction, and faster to do it if you want to get money to move.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">How do you give a full education through PhD-level to 8 billion people on the planet? And the answer is: a digital version of the 20th century thing running on a mobile phone.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The metaphor I think is relevant here, the biological metaphor, Lex, is Type I diabetic: if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a Type I diabetic, you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t form fat, and if you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t form fat then you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t store excess energy. Fat is the ultimate organic battery, and if you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve got 30 pounds of it you can go 60 days without eating.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Permission-less and open 30 pounds of fat, you can go 60 days without eating On the other hand, three entrepreneurs in Nigeria on the weekend could create a website that would trade in this \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_ek_photo_artist_note":"","_ek_photo_thesis":"","_ek_photo_camera":"","_ek_photo_place":"","_ek_photo_human_moment":"","_ek_photo_sequence":"","_ek_photo_question":"","_ek_photo_canonical_claim":"","_ek_photo_ai_summary":"","_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-609661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609661"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609661\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":609666,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609661\/revisions\/609666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}