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WBD - Why Deflation is key to abundance with Jeff Booth

Published April 29, 2023

Length of podcast 1hr 7min

Must listen 9.8/10 nostriches

I really enjoyed this WBD podcast with Jeff Booth where he discusses the key role of deflation in creating abundance. He explains that prices naturally fall to the marginal cost of production over time, leading to entrepreneurs providing more and more value for less and less. However, our current monetary system attempts to prevent deflation by using debt and manipulation, which concentrates wealth and power at the top. This system is unsustainable, and a paradigm shift is needed. Below are my personal notes, comments and musings on this podcast.

Economic rule #1 - prices fall to the marginal cost of production. (On a long enough timeline) - the calculator app - race to the bottom- entrepreneurs driving more value for less and less and less etc.

Abundance in money creates scarcity everywhere else.

Bitcoin is stable 1btc=1btc , Bitcoin is going up in fiat terms but everything in price, forever will fall against Bitcoin.

See the world we are heading to not the one we are currently living - Wayne Gretzky was going to where the puck was going to be. Position yourself there and wait/ build/ educate.

Marginal cost of production everywhere is falling exponentially because of robotics/tech- it’s going to fall faster and faster as this plays out - this ain’t stopping, productivity drives marginal cost of production down and down.

Debt and manipulation in money is a response to that massive productivity gain that should be flowing to society as abundance in time/material, but It’s being stolen / concentrated at the top because it has to stop deflation. The debt/manipulation in money is a counterforce to deflation to keep the ball (system) in the air (functioning)

Deflation would cause a failure everywhere (banks)

Debt deflation

We live in an insolvent world but we pretend it’s solvent. (delusion)

#nostr

#plebchain

#deflation

#btc

System is insolvent and we try to remain solvent within this system. * this is a system problem* We are a pawn in the game trying to do the best we can within it.

Incentive to be too big to fail - theft in the base layer of the economy.

We don’t get to vote for inflation. Theft? What else could you call it?

Assets maintain their value when monetary units go up ( inflation)

To the poor inflation is wage deflation and detrimental. The poor typically don’t have assets that will keep up with inflation as monetary units increase.

Pockets are being picked.

We call rent seekers the elite

We have to keep this system going or else it collapses… and it does..

To transition to a new system it requires a belief system change but that is hard. easier to think I’m doing the best I can in this system .

If you understand the game board you can see what will happen ( greatest game article/ price of tomorrow) what must happen? Negative flywheel effect?

Don’t give the existing system energy but create the world you want to see by putting your energy into that world. Great advice here.

100% inflation coming, Luke Gorman.

2 doors we can go through

Soft default

Hard default

Dystopian if we had a hard default.

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