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@ Satoshis Nephew
2025-05-06 18:07:30
🔥 HYPERBOLIC DISCOUNTING: THE FIAT BRAIN DISEASE THAT KEEPS YOU POOR 🔥
Hyperbolic Discounting is a civilizational virus.
A time-decay parasite embedded in the brainstem of every fiat-conditioned mind.
It is the reason empires collapse, the reason degenerates gamble away their futures for dopamine today, the reason your neighbor bought a $90,000 truck with a 9% APR while Bitcoin sat silently on sale.
Here’s the rub:
Humans are wired to overvalue immediate gratification and catastrophically undervalue the exponential power of compounding time-preference discipline.
In a fiat system built on debt and decay, this bias isn’t just common, it’s engineered.
The system requires you to stay blind to the future so it can keep harvesting your labor in the present.
That’s why most people flee to cash in a panic, why they sell at the bottom and buy the top, why they hold “safe” bonds yielding 4% while Bitcoin quietly absorbs energy, capital, and time like a monetary neutron star.
This is the core game theory behind Bitcoin adoption:
•Low time-preference actors accumulate and hold.
•High time-preference actors panic, sell, and stay poor.
Those who transcend hyperbolic discounting - who delay pleasure, think generationally, and store their will in incorruptible code - become sovereigns.
Not metaphorically. Literally.
They escape the time-theft matrix.
Because Bitcoin is not a trade.
It’s time arbitrage against the entire species.
And the only way to win… is to wait.
Adam Livingston #bitcoin