Oddbean new post about login | logout Fiat money forces you to worship it if you hope to keep any of it. Our struggle for sound money is at core, a spiritual one.
Once you see how the system functions, sound money is the only answer. And yet, we’re so early. Robert kiyosaki said if he held up a 1964 silver dollar and a 10 dollar bill most people would take the 10 dollar bill. Folks will have to hit a financial rock bottom for them to find bitcoin.
Money is time and energy in abstract form. You cannot worship your God if you are having your time and energy stolen from you by a bureaucrat.
I’m a spiritual person and feel the spirituality of Bitcoin. God said “I say unto you that all things unto me are spiritual” and God gave us Bitcoin through Satoshi.
What is the meaning of spirit in a provably non scarce fiat regime versus a provably scarce btc one? How can faith find a foothold in a world where there is an objective no? Human mortality being a kind of thermodynamic energy pool defining the edge case of proof of work expenditure?
the fiat system draws society into idolatry https://escapehatch21.substack.com/p/fiat-idolatry