Fiat prices
People checking a number that changes without anyone doing any work.
What do I mean by that?
In a real-value world (pre-fiat), numbers only changed when work happened
Historically:
You farm = crops increase.
You mine = gold increases.
You craft = goods increase.
You engineer = structures increase.
Every increase in “value” required energy.
There was always a cost.
Numbers didn’t move unless someone did something real.
Under fiat, prices move even when no value was produced
Why?
Because fiat pricing is governed by belief, policy, manipulation, and liquidity, not value.
Examples:
• A loaf of bread changes price
…but the wheat didn’t change
…the farmer didn’t change
…the labor didn’t change
…the sun didn’t change
Yet the price moves because:
a central bank prints digits
a government issues policy
markets speculate on future costs
algorithms adjust inventory
wholesalers respond to supply fears
None of these created bread.
But the price changes anyway.
That’s a number moving without work.
Stocks move without anything being built
Tesla stock goes up 10% in a day.
Did Tesla produce 10% more cars overnight?
Did employees do 10% more work?
Did factories run 10% hotter?
No.
Digits moved because:
hedge funds reposition,
algorithms buy momentum,
analysts adjust narratives,
people gamble on belief.
Again:
A number changed.
No value was created.
No work was done.
Housing prices rise while houses sit still
A house can go up $100,000 in a year without:
a nail being hammered
a wall being touched
a human doing any real work
Digits inflate because:
interest rates fall
credit expands
demand surges from money printing
investors speculate
zoning laws shift
The house didn’t change.
Value didn’t change.
But the number changed.
That’s the illusion in motion.
Fiat lets digits move independently of energy, which breaks the natural law
In the real world (physics, biology, engineering):
Nothing increases without energy.
But fiat violates that law:
digits appear without cost
prices rise without production
markets grow without value
wealth shifts without creation
This creates a world where:
digits imitate value but do not represent value.
And people get trapped into believing the number is the wealth.