Hey, thanks for your comment ⚡️ I think we’re mostly aligned, just exploring different layers of the same idea.
You're right that work—in the sense of energy expended toward a goal—is fundamental to value creation. The nuance is around why we work and how value is harnessed in both systems. In fiat, the incentive structure forces us into survival-driven labour—chasing debased money just to stay afloat. Labour and value are disconnected in fiat which is built on rent-extraction, inflation, and debt. Fiat’s extrinsic pressure distorts how and why we work and is a reason why so many people are in jobs they hate, just because it ‘pays the bills.’
In contrast, Bitcoin realigns incentives with intrinsically driven proof-of-work; our innate desire to fulfill our highest passions and follow our greatest joys—whatever they may be, and even if they are not “financially viable” like music or art. This is because Bitcoin is imposing a free market where prices fall to their marginal cost of production (meaning everything is becoming cheaper and cheaper to near-free or free). Technological productivity (like AI and robotics) is the force accelerating the trend and on a Bitcoin Standard, at a certain point, you do not even need to work for Bitcoin in order to experience abundance. You can just do what you love, without worrying about money in any form because all your gifts, talents, abilities, and productivity are serving yourself and collective, while all the gifts, talents, abilities, productivity of humanity (as well as that of technology) is being redistributed back to you through Bitcoin. We have never lived in such an interdependent system and so it breaks all our previous mental models.
This is what fascinates me most about where it is taking humanity.
It may seem like a stretch from where we are now, I know, but many Bitcoiners are already there. Just sitting with this first principle concept opens a whole new world of immense freedom to explore what it truly means to be human.