I read these books to reach this conclusion. Maybe if you read the same books you will not use the word hopium anymore.
Human Action - Ludwig von Mises
Anatomy of the state - M Rothbard
The law - F Bastiat
Broken Money- Lyn Alden
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Capitalism - Robert P. Murphy
Principles of Economics - S. Ammous
Early Austrian economics - Israel Kirzner
Check your financial privilege - A Gladstein
The theory of money and credit - L von Mises
Keynes Hayek - Nicholas Wapshott
Bitcoin is Venice - A Farrington & S Meyers
A history of money and banking in the usa - MN Rothbard
The Revolution - Ron Paul
The history of money - Jack Weatherford
Democracy: the god that failed - HH Hoppe
Economics in one lesson - Henry Hazlitt
The 7th property - Eric Yakes
When money dies - Adam Fergusson
The price of tomorrow - Jeff Booth
The bitcoin standard - Saifedean Ammous
The fiat standard - Saifedean Ammous
21 lessons - der Gigi
Principles for dealing with the changing world order - Ray Dalio
Layered money - Nik Bhatia
Economics for real people - Gene Callahan
The black swan - NN Taleb
Superforecasting - Tetlock & Gardner
The sovereign individual - Davidson & Rees-Mogg
The bullish case for bitcoin - Vijay Boyapati
Rules for radicals - SD Alinsky
