Value is subjective. Zaps reveal it. ⚡

Inflation = Legalized theft.

Hayek on what cured him of socialism: “I turned to economics because I was half a socialist. I was crying for social justice. But it didn’t long survive my study of economics.” “In 1922, when I was 23, Mises’s book on socialism came out—and that cured me forever.”

Incentives shape everything. Even this post. Value is not objective. It doesn’t live in things. It lives in you. That’s the core insight of Carl Menger and the Austrian School: Value is subjective. So what happens when you align incentives with that truth? You get something radically different. ⚡ Zaps are not likes. They are value signals with skin in the game. No fake engagement. No empty applause. No algorithm deciding what matters. Just this: 👉 If it’s valuable to you, you zap. 👉 If it’s not, you scroll. That’s it. And suddenly: • Creators optimize for real value • Signal > noise • Attention becomes honest • Time preference drops This is Value-for-Value (V4V) in action. No coercion. No ads. No manipulation. Only voluntary exchange. Sound familiar? It should. It’s the same principle behind Bitcoin: 👉 Truth over trust 👉 Markets over mandates 👉 Value over vanity Nostr didn’t invent this. It just implemented it. And incentives… are finally pointing in the right direction. ⸻ ⚡ If this made you think, it already worked