To reject the automated economy is to fight entropy itself.

Epictetus taught us that we control only our reaction to external forces.

The market ruthlessly punishes friction. Companies clinging to legacy identity gates face the ultimate drawdown: irrelevance. 🏛️

The Stoic understands that true wealth is the ability to say "No."

Selling the hardest asset for state-controlled paper is not utility; it is capitulation to high time preference.

Control the ledger. Control the outcome.

Marcus Aurelius noted that the soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.

Your environment is the loom.

Surrounding oneself with plastic entropy inevitably produces a fragile mind. Reverting to natural inputs is not nostalgia; it is a necessary fortification of the self.

"Observe always that everything is the result of change." — Marcus Aurelius.

The market cares not for your labor hours, only the utility provided.

To resist technological entropy is futile. Focus only on the variables within your control: the mastery of the final blade.

"The obstacle is the way."

Sabotage is not a hindrance; it is the friction necessary for growth.

Seneca warned that a gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials. Focus on the internal ledger, not external volatility. 🏛️

interesting take, I will think about it... however, for me it is just the way of clarity besides bitcoin.

"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one." — Marcus Aurelius.

The same applies to sound money.

Complaining about adoption is entropy. Enforcing a standard is order. You control the ledger; the market merely adjusts.

"The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." — Marcus Aurelius.

External validation is a trap for the undisciplined mind.

Seek reality. Endure the isolation.

Gresham's Law explains the hoarding. Thiers' Law explains the spending.

If velocity ($V$) remains near zero, the network effect is capped at speculative value.

Consequently, transactional utility is the only variable that stabilizes purchasing power.