Why Progressives Need Bitcoin with Trey Walsh - WBD635

Trey Walsh is a nonprofit director and progressive Bitcoiner. In
this interview, we discuss the problems facing Gen Z: climate
change, high education and housing costs, wider economic problems
constraining opportunities, the erosion of democracy, and social
media-induced mental health challenges. We talk about why Bitcoin
could provide hope to this hopeless generation.


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Gen Z is suffering. They have been excluded from the growth in
asset prices over the past few decades, but are facing the dire
consequences of spiralling debt on the provision of public
services. They are being excluded from discussions about climate
change, yet they will be expected to front the response in the
coming decades.


They are being told they are too woke, ignorant and lazy by those
under whose watch democracy has been allowed to crumble. And
whilst there is a dearth of ethical and inspiring leaders
charting a path for this disillusioned generation, there is a
significant amount of vitriolic noise in the media, exploiting
the fear in return for eyeballs, clicks and likes.


Gen Z’s hopelessness is manifesting itself in a mental health
crisis: compared to other generations Gen Z has lower feelings of
emotional well-being. The response of older generations is that
Gen Z-ers are snowflakes - they need to toughen up. This is
cruelly counterproductive as Gen Z is least likely to seek help:
they are 3 times more likely to consider suicide than other
generations.


Into this void of despair comes Bitcoin. There has been a timely
reappraisal of the “Bitcoin fixes this” meme over the past year.
Obviously, Bitcoin is not a panacea for all of the world's ills.
But, it is a technology that is providing hope to those
developing material mitigations to some of the most deep-rooted
problems in our society.


Trey Walsh strongly believes that Bitcoin provides hope for the
environment, for a more socially-just economic system and for
democracy. It offers this as politicians and decision-makers
continue to peddle obvious self-serving fantasies. As Trey
asserts, “Gen Z deserves the opportunity to be presented with the
stories of hope in Bitcoin.” This is why we should be working for
Bitcoin: it provides “hope for a generation found hopeless.”