I haven’t read Gradually Then Suddenly, but it’s definitely on my list. I’m currently reading The Fiat Standard by @Saifedean Ammous and I’m getting a better understanding of just how influential incentives are. Nature’s incentives, expressed through the free market, are perfectly designed to constantly improve quality of life by rewarding people that do good for the world and punishing people that don’t. Fiat incentives kill the free market and nature’s incentives with it by rewarding the politically connected regardless of how productive they are. Bitcoin fixes this because Bitcoin’s incentives are aligned with nature.