So what\u2019s super interesting is like our parents generation, they all came to the states for better opportunities to escape religious persecution whatever. And actually\u2026 Some people went to America simply to see us silent because they were like escaping a war torn Vietnam or somewhere else.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Therefore, the general ethos was you go to America\u2026 For the land of opportunity. This is what a lot of Koreans did, South Koreans, as the thing that\u2019s very very interesting in Asian language, even in Chinese, America is called literally a beautiful country. \u201cMee-gook\u201d (mee means \u201cbeautiful\u201d) and gook means country. I think in Mandarin it is like \u201cmee-gwwuh\u201d– same word, beautiful country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\ufffc\ufffc now\u2026 In the year 2025, I think it is wise to think about first principles again. The question is\u2026 What is the purpose of country, why a country, why go to a country, or even when to leave a country?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So the first thing is I guess in regards to opportunity. For like 99% of people it was kind of like an economic opportunity thing. For example, to get a green card or a visa or even better\u2026 Citizenship in America was like the golden ticket because You would probably at least 1000 X the opportunity of your future family. For example even in today\u2019s world\u2026 America has by far the largest economy on the planet, partly because of English language dominance and also the US dollar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Now with bitcoin, we have to think about \u201ccyber nationalism\u201d (maybe I made this up). Or to be \u201ccyber-national\u201d. Not just International or transnational\u2026 Cyber national.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
So for like most people\u2026 The only reason I think people stay in the states or LA or whatever is because they have a job there, and they look just like literally cannot leave even if they wanted to. I think most people are just like slaves to a corporate job, it doesn\u2019t matter if you\u2019re making $10 million a year at Apple, you\u2019re just a well paid slave<\/strong>. \ufffc<\/p>\n\n\n\n Well obviously the first one is freedom. Economic freedom, freedom of speech and expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I suppose the question is you just have to think critically about yourself your own family etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So for example, myself, I really think that politics is like watching wrestling on TV<\/strong>. Even Donald Trump was on wrestlemania like five or six times. He is like the world\u2019s most experienced entertainer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So if you still are watching the WWE or the WWF as I remember it, or even better\u2026 WCW as I enjoyed as a child in Bayside Queens New York shout out to my friends Spencer Aditya and Jonathan –> to be watching wrestling on television and if you think it is real, you are a super fool<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Politics is the same. If you\u2019re watching politics and you think it is all real, you are even worse than a fool<\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" So what\u2019s super interesting is like our parents generation, they all came to the states for better opportunities to escape religious persecution whatever. And actually\u2026 Some people went to America simply to see us silent because they were like escaping a war torn Vietnam or somewhere else. Therefore, the general ethos was you go to […]<\/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,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-667398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667398","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=667398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":667399,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/667398\/revisions\/667399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=667398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=667398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=667398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Freedom<\/h2>\n\n\n\n