Ownership is not a binary - it's a spectrum.

Most people think you either own something or you don't. But as inflation and taxation continue to make themselves felt, the line between ownership and "non-ownership" becomes progressively blurred.

Here is what I mean...

One the extreme end of non-ownership is something like your neighbor's house. Provided you are not a communist, you don't assume to have any claim to your neighbor's house. On the ownership spectrum, this would be a 0/100.

On the other extreme end of the spectrum is complete ownership, the only true allodial title - your soul. You can't give away your soul even if you wanted to. It's not tangible. It cannot be stolen. It cannot be outsourced. Your soul is 100/100 owned by you.

These are the extremes. In between, we find financial assets such as real estate, equities, fiat currency, precious metals, and bitcoin.

You pay property taxes on real estate (ie unrealized capital gains, subsidized rent to the government). You pay capital gains on equities when you sell them. If the price of gold and silver rise high enough, miners will mine more of it, debasing your holdings. Governments print money, debasing your fiat savings.

The punch line is this - apart from your soul, bitcoin is the most "ownable" asset in the world. Assuming you self-custody intelligently, it's practically unseizable. The only reason bitcoin gets a 99/100 instead of a 100/100 on the ownership spectrum is that unlike your soul, you could give away your bitcoin if you wanted to.

Other than your soul and your bitcoin, every asset in your life is, at best, partially yours.

The takeaway here is to invest in things in proportion to the degree that you can own them.

Spend no time worrying about the size of your neighbor's house and not much more worrying about how much US govt tokens you accumulate.

Spend as much time as you can purifying your soul. With the time you have leftover, stack some sats. Because those are the only two things that are actually yours.