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🤣 Saving is always an equation of production versus consumption. If you consume more than you produce, consistently, you will not be able to save. Bitcoin does not change this reality. Saving in fiat adds another element to the equation though - other people can consume the value of your money without you even spending it. This makes saving over long periods impractical and inefficient. The incentive becomes to spend or get into debt, which creates a positive feedback loop where interest payments make saving even MORE difficult. Bitcoin fixes that problem and allows long term saving to be possible again. You still need to produce more than you consume, but it 1. Makes it easier to save every year 2. Reliably stores value deep into the future
The average American also spends 2.5 hours per day watching TV. Half of Americans *choose not to be prepared for* a $400 expense. If you remove responsibility from others, you remove it from yourself too.
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nobody 2 years ago
The last couple of years is the first period that I’ve been incentivized to save since 2001, when I first read “The Creature from Jekyll Island” by G. Edward Griffin and soon thereafter discovered Mises’ work in Austrian economics. Things that ought to be introduced to eighth graders, if we didn’t have an indoctrination-focused education system.