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Love that passage. It is hard to get my head around it but it makes so much sense. Will be much easier for those born into the new paradigm. Can’t wait to get my hands on your book!

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We have reasons to be proud. We're contributing to a prosperous and abundant future for all humans It's hard to fully wrap my head around it nostr:nevent1qqs8qnsum82745jdynttq752jegnugu2vd36depry39ell569wtc4yqzyp0dhky966d37q6j3qa4l7lrxuqzay72m8gd42pw3ydu9z6lhs53uqcyqqqqqqgpz440y

My book Modern Chains should be out end of june too, and I’ll soon be in the dungeon recording just like you. No economics, just ethics. I do the moral and philosophical analysis of the monetary system, going back to Aristotle and Aquinas for laypeople. If that’s up your alley, I’ll send you one. Best part about almost being done with a book is having time to read/listen to books again. Yours will be top of the list!

“that ‘we must work for money’ is a belief—a social conditioning of the fiat world.” i get what your saying, but human action directed towards an end “ie. work” is what brings value into existence. expending energy into a miner to hash is work too, so even if a human isn’t “doing it” work is still constant in the equation. money being the vessel which encapsulates that value and is used to mediate human relations, so it’s a step too far saying that’s a “fiat belief” marx’s labor theory of value is such a fiat belief. bitcoin is grounded in work. without proof of work it’s nothing but fiat. that’s just reality and natural law, like you get at there at the end, choo wood, chop wood, there will always be work. what it looks like may change drastically, but if it goes, value itself goes with it.

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.

Thanks, appreciate that, I know how much work goes into it, congrats on being close to finishing ⚡️

we all contribute, such a unifying cause