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Explain the nature of the current established monetary system and how and why it leads to rising prices. Explain how the bitcoin system works differently.
Put very simply: The easier something is to make more of, the less exchange value that thing will have. If something is scarce and highly valued it will have a high price. If something is not scarce the price will be low. Bitcoin is very scarce compared to fiat money. That is why stacking sats makes more sense than stacking fiat (assuming bitcoin adoption does not decrease).
We usually think of prices in terms of money. However we also can think of goods and services as the price of money. How many goods or services do I need to buy a given amount of money? The logic of supply and demand, of scarcity and desirability applies to money just as it applies to goods and services. That is why the price of fiat money continually declines. And the price of bitcoin continually rises.
As more and more is created, as its supplies increases, the price of a given amount of units of it decreases. When we talk about the price of money decreasing we mean that you can buy more units of the money with the same amount of goods and services e.g. the same house now buys a greater amount of the fiat money units because more of the units were created while the amount of houses remained roughly the same The value of the house did not increase, instead the price of money decreased.
Basically it's about supply and demand Bitcoin's supply is limited and therefore the price of bitcoin will not be devalued due to increased supply of it.
Every fiat money known has continually devalued due to increases in supply. Increasing the supply of a money is just the mechanism by which every fiat money known to man has devalued. The choice to increase the supply of fiat money has always been the privilege of a very small group of people subject to moral hazard. Increasing the supply of bitcoin is a far more difficult thing to do.
Fiat money's supply is determined by bankers and those who influence banker's choices about how much new money to create and who to give it to. The recipients of the new money benefit while the vast vast vast majority of people using the money lose purchasing power. The bottom line here is that the money supply keeps increasing as bankers use their imagination to invent new reasons to create more money to give themselves and their cantillionaire friends. Bitcoin supply is determined by the network of nodes using it. The bottom line here is that the supply is fixed.
Very simply and succinctly put: Do not, I repeat, Do Not save in things which other people can easily create more of. You're gonna have a bad time. That rules out fiat money. That leaves a great many things, bitcoin being one among them. That's the bottom line of why to stack sats.
There's also a bunch of other reasons not having to do with loss of purchasing power but I'd guess that the purchasing power issue is the most relevant and persuasive reason for most people to stack sats.