I've spent a whole lot of time thinking about this topic in the past few years. I do think it's fair or possible to point out a mutual exclusion. To say the "fiat" (agreed, everything wrong with the world) problems are _solved_ with bitcoin. I'm not almighty enough to determine what solution WILL solve what problem.
What I do often think about is the idea that to function "in a modern society" requires a consistent tolerance for increasing pressure and responsibility on the individual, from the collective, and a large target I can point to is inflation. This of course is can be greatly over-simplified for online chat. This idea is enough to write a novelette about.
I just mean that it seems like there is more requirement to work harder than anticipated to achieve the same results you could have had a few years prior, that is continually disappointing, and continually requires reshaping your own perspective to tolerate the "things you can't change".
I'm sure you could counter again with perspective, and that's not lost on me. But the idea that myself and everyone I knew grew up with, didn't include the concept that you will need to work harder, and earn more every single day, just to afford the same thing you had the day before. That's a pretty black-pilling concept. I think the cognitive dissonance this causes, explains this exact topic. There is too much discomfort between the ideal (the perceived stability we had yesterday) and the reality, and people can't cope, and they surely can't take on new responsibility.
You're still missing my point. Bitcoin only has an association with this in the sense that its stated on a community focused on Bitcoin with strong associations between Fiat money and fiat. Again, there's a higher form of fiat that's different from Fiat Money, just as there's a higher form of non-fiat that's different from Bitcoin, the non-fiat money. I also said Bitcoin "points" to a non-fiat life, which is just about as loose an association that you can get.
Even still, whatever the association there is, its enough to attract the interest of nostr:nprofile1qqspxw8hwq2356rcjcwe5vt3rmlpsdveq49ptkfncfu8vgu7sznlqxcpzamhxue69uhhyetvv9ujumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtcwxqmwj, a professor in working in public health to both look into this association for research create and build towards an institution focused around how individuals who go down the Bitcoin path tend to also change their health habits.
And that last point, if you like Bitcoin beyond a pure technological curiosity, you recognize that it does something that other systems don't or are less effective at. Going back to the point again, it doesn't necessitate that Bitcoin /fixes/ anything, but rather that it is an alternative incentive structure. Changing incentives does not guarantee any change in behavior, but it biases it.
From Charlie Munger, "Show me the incentives and I'll show you the outcome." If you change an individual's incentives, you have no need to pursuade anyone to act some specific way.
Well I think there is a generational thing here too. Specifically on the electricity thing, our bills have nearly doubled in the past 5 years, and utility usage is on everyone's mind by me. I mean hell, I pay like $200/month and live with other people. The price of electricity went from of the cheapest on the east coast at $.09/kwh to about $0.16 from 2019 to may of this year.
Sure most consumables have gotten cheaper alternatives, but that's it they're cheaper, and arguably have to be replaced more often. I don't really want to get into the quality argument, but if were going to say that the exact same goods have gotten cheaper in proportion to the buying power of the dollar I think it's fair to ask _what_ were buying.
Example:
The pickup truck I daily drive listed at $21,500 off the lot in 1999. The exact same truck now, same options, configuration etc, in 2020 model in 2020 listed for $80,000. That same 2020 pickup used in 2023 with 65,000 miles on it was still priced at $48,000 which I almost bought like a sucker (which was a really good deal at the time). You could argue that my 1999 F250 could almost be replaced with a 2020 F150 in towing capacity, so I wouldn't need an F250 anymore an F150 _can_ almost do the same job compared. Are you getting the same product? Are you getting the same value?
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