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 That‘s why earning BTC is so great. You spend and replace. 
 The cost of opportunity you're incurring is exactly the same as if you spend bitcoin bought with fiat. In the end you're losing bitcoin. 
 You mean someone who earns bitcoin only shouldn’t spend? Tell me how this person shall pay their bills? 
 Some of them will lower their standard of living, to avoid spending Bitcoin. 
 This is the way 
 The way is to always be frugal and prudent, regardless of the currency, and spend intentionally, deliberately, and charitably.

Fiat shouldn't make us spendthrift.
Bitcoin shouldn't turn us into misers. 
 Being born in between the UNIX epoch and world war 3, being frugal and prudent means minimizing economic activity until far into or after the war. Especially in the US where I live and all economic activity is harshly dealt with. The colder your Bitcoin is in this period of time, and the less you participate in the rush to destroy natural resources, the more potential future wealth for you and everyone else. 
 I disagree, as I'm actively trying to improve things, but perhaps we will both be proven right. 
 Have you ever done the math on:

• What your profit margin is on your economic activity
• What the military industrial complex profit margin is on your economic activity 
• How much profit you need to save 1 life
• How much profit the military industrial complex needs to kill 1 more person 
 A better way of looking at the last 2 is "how many years of life can you buy per dollar vs how many can the military industrial complex"

It seems like extending lives is more expensive than shortening them, and killing is more profitable than saving these days 
 Tools don't make people do anything, people are the actors not objects. 
 indeed bitcoin should turn us into mises ;) 
 Not misers :) 
 https://c.tenor.com/ScAiELX_pS0AAAAC/tenor.gif 
 yeah, miser, mises, different lol

we WANT bitcoin to turn people *on* to mises (satoshi was a big fan btw) 
 Today I learned 
 it is hard going but Human Action is probably the most important text ever written in the 20th century 
 For now, I simply spend the depreciating, debasing, inflation-afflicted fiat money first. 
 Spoken very poetically!