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