From the Ashes of Rusty, We Can Rise

Gosh. I will admit that sounds really mushy and kind of cheesy. Yet, at the same time, I still think that we have missed an opportunity and are still unfortunately deeply struggling to understand that.

That's okay. A few of us are still trying to wrap our heads around what went wrong? Why did Rusty say se la vie? Did he not like us?

By the way, I am not one of them.

Anyway, the bottom line is who cares? That was then, this is now. Right? Maybe they (Simon and Marc) won't fund the site anymore. But we still can. Sure, the loot won't be as good. Or maybe it will be better. Who knows?

And again, who cares?

The fact is that we won't know anything if we get mad about it. We won't know if read.cash still has life if we ourselves simply abandon it, tail wagging between our legs because Rusty left and took the gravy train along with him.

I get it. As I have been writing these posts, encouraging those of us who still want the site to exist and thrive, and as I have been commenting on many posts that were expressing anger and resentment and departure because of Rusty's abandonment, many people have simply said, "We don't have any money."

Which surprises me a bit. At the same time, I don't believe it. And I don't believe it no matter which country one happens to be from or what lousy economy they have to deal with where they are.

Because I read all those posts before Rusty left just like everyone did. From all those people who did not have money, but at the same time talked about buying this discretionary thing or that discretionary thing.

Sure, some of that may have come from Rusty's money to some extent.

But not all of it did, and not all of it could have. No matter what our circumstances are, we all have something. Some have a lot. Some have a little. But we all have something.

And at the same time, what we do here is sort of like a business of sorts. Not a job. I want to make that clear. Because nothing replaces a Bonafide income source like a job.

We provide a service, and someone offers us something in return for it.

But you see, businesses spend money in order to make money. That's, in fact, how they make money. And they cannot make money without spending it. That is simply the reality.

So, in our business here, if we failed to run what we did like a business does, with some of the same ideas and concepts in mind, how did we expect to continue to simply receive money?

If we only collected money and made no further contribution, how would we continue to get a return?

You see, there was a limited till. That was Simon and Marc (or Rusty). There were a handful of generous other folks around here too, and I want to be sure not to leave them unannounced or unaccounted for.

We know who they were. We could see the stats.

The unlimited till was us. You and I and every single pocket within this site's walls. But if we were not willing to open our own tills, of course the well would eventually run dry, and for whatever reason beyond the main till simply running out of money.

Give some, take some, leave some. That's how the world works. That is true of all things, and it is especially true of business.

A business takes some when it makes a product, gives some to the people who work to make it and sell it, and leave some behind to continue to reinvest in and grow the business further.

Why could we not have done the same thing here? With our business? Keep a little something for ourselves while at the same time giving some of what we take and leaving some to reinvest in this whole platform?

I think we could have walked away with much more than any amount Rusty could have left us.

But again, we failed to understand that, and now it is biting us all in the butt.

You know, what we were doing here was taking on a bit of a socialist view. We were simply expecting other people to give us money. And anyone who has ever followed history knows...socialism never works.

As Margaret Thatcher famously once said, "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money." Her antidote, and the antidote is a capitalistic view.

If a few make a lot of money, eventually and almost by default, everyone makes money. Because that is how money is made and generated, and that is what wealth provides for.

No. Not everyone gets equally rich. But in a socialist society, no one gets rich. Or, the percentage of rich people are much smaller and the poverty level is dramatically increased.

In a socialist society, middle class almost does not exist at all because, generally it can't exist. Much less of the concentrated wealth gets to trickle down, and very little of it is shared.

Consider that in a capitalist society you have the stock market. Open to the public. You start a company, and it becomes huge, and the one who starts it get very wealthy and it provides jobs.

But those workers can access that generated wealth by buying the very companies generating all that wealth.

Jeff Bezos starts Amazon, becomes a billionaire and then opens his business to the public allowing them to own a slice of Amazon and share in the success.

That opportunity is almost non-existent in a socialist society.

The bottom line is that you have to spend money to make money. You cannot have a successful community built only on takers and receivers being supported by a tiny few at the top.

It just doesn't work that way.

Crypto doesn't change that fact any more than it changes circumstances in any country where the economy is in the tank.

One will only ever have money if something is produced to generate it. And one will only ever have the ability to generate more money if they are willing to spend money to do that.

Rusty may have waved us his final goodbye. It's sad. It is even a little disheartening and frustrating. But it does not have to be the end. In fact, it can be the beginning. Not only of the continuation of read.cash, but the beginning of making it bigger than it ever was. And frankly, bigger than it could ever have become with just one till being raided.

And yes. I used the term raided.

I am not saying anyone needs to unload their pockets of their last dime. Not at all. I am simply saying that if we spend a little and give something back, there may be more money to go around overall, and making money will be something that happens almost by default.

Give some, take some, leave some, and we can rise from the ashes of Rusty and make this site soar higher than the most majestic eagle to ever take to the air.

I am telling you we can do it. I am telling you we have the opportunity right here in front of us. Will we take it? Will we run with it? More importantly, will we understand it?

Because if we do? Why, read.cash could become one of the greatest success stories of BCH beyond even mass adoption. We could walk away from this little venture with money in our pockets, and big smiles on our faces and be able to say...

"My God. Would you believe it? It actually worked."

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