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jimmysong | 1 months ago (raw) | export | reply | flag +50 
 Fiat money is deeply nihilistic. At core, it's the idea that you can create value from nothing, and by extension, meaning from nothing. In a subtle way it concedes the metaphysical ground, that nothing is the default state, hence trivializing anything and everything. Denial of reality is its inevitable end.
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TheyHODL | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It’s an illusion.

It’s a trick.

It’s captured the audience for a time but reality will soon hit home and make fools of those who believed the slight of hand was real.
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StackSatsRaiseFamily | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 This is very, very well written. Fiat reinforces cultural ambiguity and abstractions to what ought to be inherently, yet difficulty articulated, truths. Fiat is your life is an accident, it means nothing, there is no truth. Bitcoin is your life was made from intelligent design, with real purpose, and truth is derived from that. Hear, hear.
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0xfa | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Wow, what a concise and profound note, love it! 💕