Alice is a dark maximalist. She’s embraced UBI (universal basic income). She encourages large government spending bills. She cheers subsidies—especially subsidies for energy infrastructure. Glancing over sovereign debt charts give her ASMR chills. The renderings of Middle-East mega-projects drive her to donate even more time to green energy initiatives, realizing the petrodollar isn’t viable when oil isn’t the fastest expanding type of energy. She casts votes based upon what Party controls what, weary of any single Party controlling every relevant branch of government. CBDC’s put a smile on her face, because she knows that when purchase voids, geofencing, restrictions, and possible expirations are inherent parts of a fiat money’s logic gates, its ability to be a store of value is further hollowed out, and the fixed monetary properties of decentralized money shine; and she knows that when the on and off ramps of tax havens are surveilled, decentralized money becomes a necessity, not only for its fixed monetary properties so important to NgU heretofore, but for its fixed liberties which shine. Creative Destruction is a principle Alice adheres to, believing the fastest and most frictionless path to end fiat hegemony (separate money from state) equals a sum of well-being. Ai to her will become a boringly dependable technology like they all do, but on the pathway there, it’s a tool to supercharge FOSS, which tears down borders, savages ecosystems, collapses prices, and distributes away centers of power. Bitcoin is the native currency of this new culture. Alice imagines a world where we’re all broadcasting bitcoin transactions in the light.

Bob is a fiat maximalist. He rails against UBI because it could inflate the dollar, and is angered by every government spending bill. He pushes crisis narratives using sovereign debt charts, and considers CBDC’s a danger to bitcoin’s NgU. He worships oil and gas like he does fiscally responsible conservatives who promise safekeeping of the fiat system’s oxygen supply. He dismisses battery technology, eye-rolls hydrogen, laughs-off incremental fusion breakthroughs, is skeptical of wind, geothermal, solar, and hydro, and demands more nuclear because his favorite Twitter accounts parrot the same. However, when more nuclear is embraced by his enemies, he’s ready to pivot and warn people of the cost versus the latest developments of the interminable shale revolution. He pushes Austrian ideals onto a Keynesian fiat corpse, and suggests trust-based gold standards (which involve pegging fixed amounts of gold to a fixed amount of fiat before engaging in coordinated global forex manipulation campaigns) were a viable thing prior to 1971 and the petrodollar’s suddenly. He wants territory ceded to autocratic regimes abroad, not because expanding their reach is acceptable and certain to stop there, but because it helps discredit those he disagrees with, fits into his myopic time preference, and helps keep the defense budget down—even though it’s been falling for years. He dabbles in conspiracies as a tool for the same reason. Bob wants Creative Destruction reviewed, regardless of its efficiency and sum of well-being. Ai is a tool of repression that the fiat-based system will use to enslave us. Fiat is the native currency. Bob imagines a friction-filled world where we’re all broadcasting bitcoin transactions in the dark.

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