The nuance around why we work and how value is harnessed in both systems can be difficult to grasp.
In fiat, the incentive structure forces us into a survival-mindset—chasing debased money just to stay afloat. Labour is not tied to value; these concepts are are disconnected from a proof-of-stake system built on rent-extraction, inflation, and debt.
Fiat’s extrinsic pressures distort how and why we work.
In contrast, Bitcoin realigns incentives with intrinsically driven human motivation; our innate desire to fulfill our highest passions, to follow our greatest joys, and to be of service to others. We can fully dedicate ourselves to these things, even if they are not 'financially productive or viable' like creating music, making art, or just spending time with loved ones.
Bitcoin enables us to work for fulfillment and pleasure, not for survival.
It 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. Exponential technological productivity (like AI and robotics) is the force accelerating the trend and replacing our physical time-based labour on a Bitcoin Standard. (See Jeff Booth's work for a deeper dive into these first principles)
At a certain point, we will not even need to work for Bitcoin in order to experience unfathomable abundance.
We can just do what we love, without worrying about money in any form because all our gifts, talents, abilities, and productivity are serving ourselves and collective, while all the gifts, talents, abilities, productivity of humanity (as well as that of technology) are, in turn, being redistributed to ourselves 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 Bitcoin is taking humanity.
It may seem like a stretch from where we are now, 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, beyond money.