I’m thinking of most of the thinking and building that needs to be done now but there’s no money in it. A lot of Bitcoiners quickly justify their decisions based on “paying the bills” without realizing they are relinquishing their time preference.

I see this frequently with influencers who have spent many years creating content that was never monetized - then they take shitcoin money as a sponsor or quit and offer their survival as a reason that Bitcoiners are supposed to accept without criticism.

The point I want people to understand is that a low time preference isn’t any permanent state of affairs - it requires a lot of work and sacrifice to maintain and should almost be held sacred and not offered cheaply to rationalize decisions that clearly wouldn’t have been made under such a low-time preference.

It’s worse to LARP a low time preference than to be a honest golden retriever.