The growth imperative: With money printing, the rate of monetary debasement makes it where investors need to look for ways to invest their money to preserve it against this inflation. So it’s almost like the unsustainable money printing of the government forces companies to operate unsustainably to compete against the “productivity” and inflation afforded/caused by the excess capital flowing into the markets from money printing which competes for goods and services driving their prices higher. Under something like gold or bitcoin, which can’t be debased as easily (Bitcoin being the best in this case) people wouldn’t be forced to outrun monetary debasement as much and could focus on long term growth over short term year after year returns to escape the 7-10% annual debasement of currency. Also, JUST holding the gold or bitcoin would be in and of itself a kind of profitable business, which would incentivize holding onto it instead of “putting it to work” to try and multiply it because it’s decomposing. Bitcoin and gold increase in value over time being strong stores of value. As such, if we used one of these currencies as global reserve, companies might transition to focusing more on real productivity and value-production rather than financial engineering, debt fueled short term growth and unsustainable/destructive business practices to appease inflation-wary investors looking to plug the hole in their money.

(The Cantillon effect) The fed chooses its local syntropy over global entropy when it prints money.

Just as sustainable agriculture minimizes entropy production at the level of food production. Bitcoin minimizes entropy production at the level of money creation. The down stream effects of these two and their opposites, are innumerable.

EARLY HUNTING: burn muscle to extract energy from meat (energy extracted from plants and concentrated by animals) high entropy: overhunting, and extinction. Value decays: no storage methods (energy wasted) TRANSITIONED TO: SUSTAINABLE HUNTING: hunting rightly (syntropically) maximized constraints on extraction: hunting rules/bans/traditions Less waste, most structure: pemmican, jerky. LESS ENTROPY Once maximized, and empathy has been seeded in man, we learn that giving life is more efficient than taking it. SO WE TRANSITIONED TO: EARLY FARMING: burn muscle to extract energy from plants, using the vastly more efficient energy of the sun instead of animals. unsustainable and costly high entropy As such, it took time for us to develop the following technology. SUSTAINABLE FARMING: Burn muscle to give life. Irrigation technology Integration of animals into farming Crop rotation LESS ENTROPY For organisms to grow they must increase their order within, giving structure to the atoms and molecules which make up their body. To do this, most organisms increase the disorder without. For example, they dig in the soil to find roots, they kill another organism, or they, in the case of humans, use machines run of diesel to farm acres and acres of a single plant sprayed with poison and fed with industrially made “nutrients”—the same process utilized to produce molecules used in bombs. This marks a divergence from the intelligence and knowledge of the native people, who learned to live with nature, constraining themselves as such—seeking to reduce entropy without while still obtaining syntropy within at greater and greater magnitudes: the destiny of life. The plow marked the transition to using muscle to give life instead of taking it. The petroleum-plow, soil destroying, air poisoning, farmer’s suicide note machines we use today mark the transition back to the entropic side of life. Perhaps Bitcoin will reorient us away from entropy. Perhaps it will be the digital plow that connects value again to giving life instead of taking it. Perhaps its will turn our society of entropy into one of syntropy. Perhaps it will turn the highly costly hunting grounds of capitalism into the butterfly fields of the future. Perhaps.

Bitcoin will aid in turning society from an Entropy accelerator, destined to collapse, into a self-sustaining “stellar” organism.

Why Matter Doesn’t Vanish and Bitcoin Won’t Either: Energy is stored in mass, creating a structure resistant to entropy (to a degree). Similarly, Bitcoin is energy embedded in cryptographic hashes of nuclear level security, creating a structure and store of energy/value resistant to entropy or tampering. (To a degree) The degree to which they are resistant to entropy is due to them being energy-bound systems and as such, their security and structure arises from the cost prohibitive energy costs levied against “attackers” in physical space attempting to break its syntropy (the strong nuclear force or the Proof-of-work protocol). Nakamoto’s insight - truth is energy

The top s&p 500 companies are largely information companies, ie; they capitalize on the digital internet infrastructure, decreasing their production costs (which already benefit from scaling extremely well, with zero marginal costs), giving them access to user data (virtually stolen capital). The networked nature of the internet brings with it unprecedented efficiency and potentials for profit. It’s like pitching a forest to a plant growing out in the desert on its own. As such, when we succeed in tying digital data and property to physical value and energy, giving people rights to their data again, there will be a kind of battle between the companies and the people they steal value from. Another battle between those who want to own that which is beyond their own labor.

Stephen Wolfram’s term computational irreducibility offers a view of the universe that’s a bit like this: A man once asked Beethoven, upon finishing a piece he’d just completed, “My God! Well, what does it mean??” And so, Beethoven began playing the piece again from the top.

In the movie Interstellar, upon being pulled into Gargantua—the massive black hole central to the story—Cooper says the following after finally seeing the tesseract that lies at its center and mysteriously contains his entire life: “They didn’t bring us here at all, we brought ourselves.” Marveling at the creation, TARS, who is still miraculously communicating to Coop from somewhere in the “bulk”, says “People couldn’t build this.” And Coop responds then, “No. Not yet. But one day. Not you or me. But a people. A civilization that’s evolved beyond our four dimensions.” I imagine this would be the reaction a cell may have if permitted to enter into the world we live. It would realize that it is a “we” who feeds into and makes up a higher dimensional “they” who is still paradoxically ultimately them. and that beautifully so, just as we seek to take care of our bodies, the higher dimensional bodies that we make up seem to do much the same, just for us instead. And infinitely through time, extending through infinite tiers—infinite realms—does the universe sing its song with one choir, sitting in infinite chairs, signing infinite songs. Peeking into their world, he sees himself everywhere, just as this cell may. Mirrors of himself in a mirrored world. He sees the world he lived in, the worlds, superimposed onto a world he didn’t know he always lived in, condensed into a place—a new place. There is no “they” only we; “One blood”; “I am because we are.”

Self is not real, but relation is. We are not things, but processes in relation to other processes.

Each invention is matters way of living longer. It seeks greater order and in us achieves that. See: iron atoms use humans to construct a plow, which ultimately “prolongs” human life and as such its own.

“All hail to power” the mitochondria said to its cellular subjects. What about what is to be done, the body said? What about that which we Illumine? That is my question to answer, the mitochondria said, you merely carry my energy where I send it; where I permit it.

The first organisms to take energy from its environment and convert it to a new useful exogenous or endogenous form for its local or global environment was the first to add to the “money supply”. I call this Syntraction. “Syn”, meaning integration, synergy and creation. “Traction”, meaning, leverage, motion and value-generation. Extractions opposite.

Wealth and “money” is not how many bushels of corn you can extract from the ground and sell for symbolic paper value, it’s how many “seed corns” you have left to plant next year.

Gold as a monetary technology and physical commodity vulnerable to supply growth is fundamentally entropic and dissipative in structure. Bitcoin, on the other hand, stores an exponentially greater amount of energy and symbolic capital in the same amount of Bitcoin and as such, operates as an energy crucible, condensing energy syntropically into ever smaller digital units called Satoshi—which can be further subdivided to facilitate even more energy per unit.

Cows are essentially dynamic, standing, and walking, “grain stores”. Passively consuming (for us) and converting grass into a solid form of protein, cows and other ruminants and related species allow us to carry our farms with us—and “liquidate” them by slaughtering the animal in times of need, like the winter. Furthermore, these dynamic “grain stores” give birth to new “silos” and the associated “farming equipment” in the form of their babies. The “ruminant factory” is perhaps one of natures most perfect and—if stewarded rightly—sustainable forms of capital accumulation, reproduction and interest.

It’s a matter of time until this theatre collapses under the weight of its script.

Commodities destroy societies energy over time. Falling prey to tech innovations, and greater energy efficiency, slowly but surely the energy used to produce the first of these commodities is more and more gargantuan compared to the morsels needed now. With bitcoin, despite tech innovations or vast increases in energy efficiency, it gets exponentially harder to add to bitcoins supply—until you no longer can—ensuring its value doesn’t fall prey to ephemeralization—the key mechanism which the capitalists have obscured from us through price gouging and dollar inflation. The key mechanism which allows capitalists to use less and less resources to produce more and more capital, while extracting greater and greater amount of labor out of us due to the inflating US dollar and wages keeping not keeping up with capitalist profit. Bitcoin exists as an economic pillar, an economic anchor, in the socio-politico-technological chaos and storm and sea-change that is coming. It ensures that energy spent now on bitcoin will be worth exponentially more over time—instead of less—compounding our energy, making it syntropic, instead of entropic—the systemic flaw that causes systemic flaws like price gouging and exploitation and price inflation. Bitcoin is civilizations battery, instead of a “battering ram” which becomes less and less valuable, ultimately requiring you to “ram” more and more people to make ends meet.

Paradoxically the capitalist economic fiat fed system has ushered in the greatest energy efficiency (or access to it) in civilizations history and at the same time, the highest prices of consumer goods ever seen. Bitcoin will solve this. And as our energy efficiency dwarfs what it is now, prices will instead reflect that, and fall as the energy needed to produce them does too. Our money has lost its connection to reality, to signal to society a things REAL value. As such, we’re all being robbed in a way. Bitcoin is transparent energy accounting. Bitcoin is transparent cost accounting and will help destroy fiats total exploit accounting.

The decision to pay a CEO more than its employee is like paying the bodies brain more than its hands. The “hands” brought the brain into existence, and sustains it, fuels it even still, yet has been subsumed, consumed and controlled by this brain. The brain CAN’T survive if it takes too many of the capital-calories of the hands. It takes just ~20% of the calories, being 2% of the bodies mass. CEOs represent .001% of the employee “mass” and even still take vastly more value than their functional contribution—in some cases 300x their lowest paid employee. This system can’t survive. At least not with any measure of health. The brain merely issues commands, coordinates capital—determines where energy flows—and yet the hands generate nearly 100% of the capital that the CEOs lay claim to nearly 90%+ of, in some cases. This cannot last. “My hands don’t seem to be my kin no more...” - From : “What Kind of Way” - by Luay