Innis on Nostr: The system defines success in its own units, which is how it keeps you, which is how ...

The system defines success in its own units, which is how it keeps you, which is how it keeps alternatives from growing. The patient builder has a low time preference. The calculations will change over time.

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Bitcoin is sixteen years old and still a rounding error in global finance. Nostr is barely walking. The Soviet Union was eternal until 1991. The gold standard was immovable until 1971. Things stay the same for a long time and then they don't, and no one predicts exactly when, and your job is not to predict it. Your job is to build the alternative so thoroughly that when the ground shifts there is somewhere solid to shift to. An ark floating. A door standing open. Something real that didn't ask anyone's permission to be real. The system looks permanent. They always look permanent. Until they don't.