You are literally measuring this 'salary' in a piece of paper rather than what real value is and what an actual free market represents: efficient energy transfer.
It makes sense why you buy into the Monero narrative. To you, privacy is the ultimate battleground, and you assume the primary issue with the world is centralized authority. While those concerns are valid, they are downstream effects.
The foundational issue with society is the corruption of the medium we use to store our life-force and value. Literally everything else is downstream from this. We are told we live in a free market, but we don't, because systemic inflation distorts every price signal. When we assume the issue is just the central authority and fight to hide from it, we paradoxically validate its power over us. The only real escape is to opt out of the broken thermodynamic system entirely.
Nothing accomplishes this better than Bitcoin. It is decentralized, globally secure, possesses an unassailable first-mover advantage, and is backed by verifiable time and energy. Most of all, it has an absolute, immutable supply cap.
Bitcoin's fixed supply is the economic equivalent of the discovery of zero (an absolute mathematical constant). For the first time in history, value can be measured in time and energy alone, completely decoupled from the whims of a central bank or the systemic leakage of a perpetual tail emission.
