Can there be scientific progress when "scientists" have zero skin in the game because the politicians and technocrats that finance them and their projects also have zero skin in the game? They've got the money printer.

The fiat system is hoping for the miracle that saves it: nuclear fusion, AI singularity, quantum computers... They need the rate of productivity increase to be higher than the rate of plunder increase.

What will we get before? Fiat productivity miracle or hyperbitcoinization? Place your bets. I've already placed mine.