I've used this image in the past, and I've recently been thinking about how bitcoiners fall into the same psychological trap.
There's an overlying concern about the future of bitcoin and how there's simply not enough for everyone. And it's true, Bitcoin is not for everyone.
I recently read a book called Stellar. It's about the future, breaking out of the current paradigm of perception, and how a fancy technological concoction of solar, wind, AI, etc. is brewing to create to largest deflationary impulse the world has ever seen. Infinite abundance, echoing Elon Musk, Jeff Booth, and others' words of a world where anything becomes accessible to anyone.
I gotta say: the book specifically is big on theory, but falls short in practice imo. Before we ever get there, I believe there's a world of painful social unraveling to work through first.
At the same time, it was valuable in crystallizing ideas I've held for awhile. I agree with the basic premise that we're heading toward a world of prosperity the likes of which we never thought possible. Like 99% of stuff being straight up free. No cost, no need to "spend currency" on it.
If that's truly where we're headed, what does MoE look like? How does Bitcoin fit into this equation? Could it be that our perception of "spending money" in exchange for goods and services itself is becoming an antiquated relic of history?
I see Bitcoin as the financial bedrock upon which freedom will be upheld for the world. All the costs in the world could go to zero, but the AI could still be force feeding bugs into our stomachs without guardrails in place that they can't work around.
For a long time, this is a critical purpose of Bitcoin I've recognized. It makes all the difference between an abundant world of freedom, and an abundant world of slavery. Profits are channeled into a decentralized network shared by everyone, instead of corporate AI robot goonies that use it to project power over the individual.
Perhaps we (or maybe just me) have been thinking about Bitcoin's trajectory all wrong. Like others in the space have mentioned, is Bitcoin something that most won't even tangibly use on the surface level? Sure, there will be a transitionary period of buying my milk for 1,000 sats, then 100 sats, then 1 sat, but what comes after that?