Every song came from another song.
Every invention: a remix of what came before.
We wrote laws pretending ideas start from NOTHING.
AI just proved they never did.
Age of Abundance
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A daily live show about the monetary transition from fiat to Bitcoin - AI deflation, energy abundance, and the restoration of humanity. Hosted by Ricky Zhang. Live weekdays at 10am PT / 1pm ET. Clips daily.
Every pitch sounds the same.
None of this is your fault: vote for me, or buy this, and the pain goes away.
Both cures run on the same printed money that made you sick.
A snake eating its own tail.
Why does every good thing online turn into a walled garden?
Fiat money needs debt serviced.
It finds any real human thing and converts it: the open web becomes a search monopoly.
The pattern isn't malice, it's math.
Remember Sora 2?
For a few weeks anyone could generate Disney, Marvel, Sam Altman, Martin Luther King - from a prompt.
Then OpenAI shut it down and we all moved on.
But we saw it.
The idea that a company owns a likeness is already over.
The tax on spending bitcoin is small.
The fear of it is huge.
That gap is psychological.
And the fear is the real thing keeping you in the old system.
Name it and it loses its grip.
All we see are young guys flashing Lambos.
They're not the villain - they're the diagnosis.
When dollars are infinite, grabbing more before someone else does is the only game.
Fix the money and the aesthetic dies on its own.
The World Cup used to sell soccer.
Now it sells FanDuel bets and Kalshi prediction markets.
This isn't respected brands teaming up to create value - they're combining their extraction capabilities.
That's what late fiat partnerships look like.
Boomers want more money printing to lift their assets.
Young people need those same assets to fall.
Neither side is wrong.
The MONEY is what puts them on opposite sides.
The Soviet shopkeeper still puts the slogan in the window.
Everyone walking past KNOWS something is wrong...
You show up, pay the mortgage, price your life in fiat.
That gap has a name.
It's what comes before everything changes.
Anthropic says Chinese labs are copying its model.
This from a company that trained on the world's copyrighted work.
You don't build on everyone's IP.
Then cry when someone copies yours.
It's a mirror.
Rural electrification isn't a charity problem.
It's an economics problem.
Gridless puts Bitcoin miners at remote rivers with no grid.
The miner is the first buyer. Others follow.
A village forms where mud huts used to be.
Why does every 20-year-old online have a Lambo?
You see the winners.
You don't see the thousands who took the same trade - and lost.
It's a power law sold to you as a skill.
Real partnerships combine two names to make something bigger.
FIFA plus FanDuel does the opposite...
Two EXTRACTION machines pooling their reach.
Taking more from the same fan.
That's what late-stage fiat looks like.
Mining follows cheap energy around the world.
Lock in a long contract - the next Bitcoin halving wipes you out.
China banned it. It just moved.
Daniel Batten tracks it hiding in energy grids as demand response.
Why does every path in normal life feel harder every year?
Fiat centralizes.
A few winners pull away and everyone else treads water.
Bitcoin does the opposite.
Whatever you build there gets easier over time.
You don't have to owe a dollar to be servicing debt.
The dollar itself is someone else's IOU.
Every time you earn one or spend one.
You're propping up a system that can't be repaid.
That's why debt-free still feels like a treadmill.
Picking between two Bitcoin node implementations isn't a choice.
It's a coin flip.
We need more teams writing competing node software.
Then which one you run becomes a stance - not a default.
Does your one small conversation about broken money actually stick?
Yes.
Seeing fiat is broken is a one-way door.
People argue, stall, take years to walk through.
But it only runs one way: forward.
Look at what Gen Z gets to choose between.
Sports betting, meme coins, OnlyFans, managing OnlyFans.
The most respectable option left: teaching your peers how to make money online.
An entire generation preying on itself.
Fix the money and these paths disappear.
What actually backs the dollar?
Not gold, not oil, nothing you can weigh.
Only belief that tomorrow it still works...
Gold's value is locked in the atom.
Belief can vanish overnight.