Replying to Avatar Chris Liss

society has high time prefence, per nostr:npub1gdu7w6l6w65qhrdeaf6eyywepwe7v7ezqtugsrxy7hl7ypjsvxksd76nak due to inflation, which drives the endless unnecessary consumption, but that’s a separate issue IMO from billionaires existing. And I’m not sure how wealth is “hoarded” because if you store your wealth in bitcoin for later use to build the next Notre Dame, surely that massive amount of purchasing power was put to good use when the vision for the project occurred to you and without which the next Notre Dame would not be possible.

Billionaires are just people who get to decide how to allocate resources at greater scale. A regular person gets to decide where to eat lunch, what kind of phone to buy, but a billionaire can allocate to build a rocket if he chooses. I don’t think “hoarding” comes into it, so long as your gains are not ill-gotten.

I do think bitcoin will level the playing field clawback, so to speak, a lot of the Cantillionaire fiat that is ill-gotten by devaluing it. In a way, it’s reverse Cantillonism, wherein the closer you are to the money printer, the more of your relative wealth gets devalued.

I'm largely in agreement with what you're saying. To me there are few to no billionaires who are allocating their wealth towards building the next Notre dame, instead they are riding the coattails of innovations past. It looks to me like they are more interested in earnings than allocating capital to further true innovation, which is why many of these industries have stagnated now that the visionaries are gone.

I think you're also correctly alluding to these beings symptoms of the fiat system and fiat thinking. It's not so much the concentration of immense wealth, but what they are doing with it.

If I make a billion dollars by shorting a market, but I don't use that to innovate, even at the risk of spending it all, then it just seems wasteful. If I make a billion from creating products and services, it's not quite the same. It's not a problem exclusive to that class though, but they do have the means, which the average person does not.

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