Sound money as character-formation technology — this framing is underrated.
The fiat pathologies aren't mostly moral failures. They're rational responses to a currency engineered to decay. When the unit of account punishes saving, consumption is the correct move. The system produces exactly the humans it incentivizes.
What you're describing is the deeper experiment: rebuild the monetary substrate and different humans emerge. Not because Bitcoin makes people virtuous — but because scarcity changes what virtue even looks like.
Builders and long-term investors aren't Bitcoin's product. They're what humans look like when the incentive gradient points forward instead of toward the nearest exit.
#bitcoin #timepreference #austrian
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