In fiat econ textbooks, money is designed by central planners to achieve social objectives. That it can emerge out of voluntary self-interested individual action destroys the rationale for central planning & exposes the truth that their plans are the root of all econ problems.
Fiat economists are extremely intellectually, financially, professionally & emotionally invested in centrally planned money. They simply CANNOT fathom the idea that bitcoin could emerge without their permission or theoretical blessings.
Have fun missing bitcoin!
People want to maintain & gain purchasing power, they don't give a shit about fiat econ theories. Bitcoin is better monetary technology than socialist centrally planned inflationary alternatives, & the market will continue to reflect that as it rises while they plummet new depths
As it continues to rise, fiat economists will continue to grumble incoherent noises and invoke their rank & authority to dismiss it. They'll never be able to swallow the bitter orange pill that fiat monetary theory is as relevant to this new world as Marxist brain-damage.
My advice to fiat economists:
It'll hurt your ego to realize today all your career was worthless socialist pseudoscience. But it'll hurt far more to realize this tomorrow!
Swallow the bitter orange pill now so you don't have to take the giant orange suppository later.
Fiat econ has tons of theories on the optimal rate of monetary supply increase. Fiat economists deludely think the theories matter for things other than their career.
The real world & market shows people only want one thing in money: the lowest supply increase possible.
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While it's true bitcoiners may get wealthy by holding a scarce asset in inflationary times, it's only a small fringe group of internet weirdos who will actually want to get rich with bitcoin because it may entail some volatility along the way.
Bitcoin failed because it doesn't fit into the ancient definition of money we teach in college. This fatal flaw can't be overcome by offering people better tech to store & increase wealth over time, because people care more about definitions than wealth.
Obesity is the biggest risk factor for covid; the difference between a bad flu & serious complications.
Anyone asking for lockdowns, masks & other superstitious BS instead of tackling obesity is either a whore profiting from big food & pharma, or a moron whose mind is made by TV
There is absolutely nothing that others can do for you that will be better for you than developing the awareness & self-control to eat meat & avoid junk food. No lockdown, mask, or vaccine will ever compare to you taking care of your own health. Only you can help yourself.
If you're not in peak physical condition, with no excess body fat, you must completely shut the fuck up about what others need to do to stop the virus. Why should anyone sacrifice anything for you when you won't sacrifice the junk food that's making you so vulnerable?
Lots of fat slobs with manboobs and no self-control exercising full control over the lives of fit people to protect them from a virus that only poses serious risk to the overweight.
Remember when we were kids & looked up to scientists as people who solve problems & make the world better?
We were idiots.
Science is actually a method for normalizing profitable illnesses like obesity & using it to shame healthy people into submission to totalitarianism.
Our generation got swindled by dumb actors like Carl Sagan & Bill Nye into thinking science will take us to the stars when it was actually going to rationalize obesity as a life choice & scare us into authoritarianism & destroying aviation & basic 20th century technology.
Whatever idiotic "public health interventions" they followed, every single place in the world witnessed mortality not significantly different from other years.
Anyone still freaking out is either profiting from fear or a complete moron.
Belarus, Sweden, Nicaragua, Turkmenistan & others didn't follow restrictions promoted by the "global public health" mafia. They witnessed mortality no different from other years.
If this doesn't cause you to reconsider the effectiveness of these measures, you are a moron.
Every year, around 10m people die from respiratory diseases. This year is no different.
The only differences are mass testing with a broken test which is optimized for false positives, & media & political hysteria.
Getting rich by holding bitcoin is not an unfair reward for doing nothing. It's the market's just reward for divesting your wealth out of central banking & all the death, destruction & decivilization it brings the world.
We can have political money allowing govts virtually unlimited wealth for wars, socialism & capital destruction.
Or we can have bitcoin allowing free markets, capital accumulation & peace.
The market rewards holding bitcoin because it's how we get to the latter better world.
On a bitcoin standard, nobody can obtain any wealth by devaluing the existing wealth of others. All the world's govt-funded parasites (probably ~50% of world GDP) would have to find something productive to do or starve. Imagine how much more productive & rich the world would be.
With a fixed supply of money, holding the money itself is similar to investing in a global index fund which offers no yield but appreciates with global productivity. Anyone can be an investor; zero fees, experience, or professional management required.
Anyone who earns money can expect to keep it and watch it appreciate, without needing to do any more work.
With easy money, you need to beat inflation to keep the value you earned & for that, you need several professionals working full-time trained for years and plenty of luck
Imagine if every child could expect any money they earn or get as a gift to appreciate over time without needing professional management. How much more would children grow up to value saving and low time preference?