Definitely not stabbing myself in the leg by paying sats for things. What I'm tired of hearing is people say, "Why would I pay appreciating sats instead of depreciating dollars?" Which one you pay with doesn't make any difference to your stack. Whatever you spend in dollars is value you no longer have to convert from dollars to sats. Spending dollars is the exact same loss to your balance sheet as spending sats is. So stop pretending that spending sats is some self-harm ritual and instead acknowledge that it's new, early, not always possible, takes a little more effort, and its benefits don't have directly to do with your savings but with proving and showing to others that Bitcoin is money and it works.

I agree that the free market will eventually get to more people using sats as their money. But free market participants are thinking creatures, not purely instinct-driven beasts. It's not some violation of free market principles to explain why it makes sense to spend sats. People like you just have a knowledge gap or misunderstanding presently which prevents them from seeing how that activity is of benefit. 🙂