You make valid points;

Those SATs you spent for fiat items are worth more today than the day you spent them. Even if they are not, the opportunity cost to hold SATs over time is very high. In one year, Bitcoin is up 127%, for instance.

However if you spent 500 Rands on those goods, your delta hasn't moved much, even over a year. Sure your purchasing power decreases as inflation bakes in, but it's marginal in comparison to the gains, over any timeframe.

So, it's better to hold Bitcoin as a store of value than as a spending product.

That's why institutional investors and people like Soiler are buying and holding. That's why whales exist and hold for a decade or more.

That's why we laugh at someone who spent 10k on two pizzas because at the time, he was "contributing to awareness". Maybe these things need to happen for adoption to take place, idk

I mean, thanks for your service,