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Arjun Khemani

arjunkhemani.com

High school dropout building Airchat with @naval

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2024-09-27 12:15:59

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Why I come to Nostr now
https://m.primal.net/LDbp.jpg

2024-09-07 12:17:59

@npub1n5r…0ngn: “The means for learning are now abundant… but it’s the desire to learn that’s scarce.
College is a checkbox. And the easiest way to see that is if we say, OK, you can go to college but you wouldn’t get a diploma—would you still do it?’”
https://m.primal.net/KiAZ.mov

2024-09-02 15:20:41

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My math test score!

2024-09-01 15:34:21

“Everything you read makes sense if you simply translate ‘experts’ as ‘crazy people’.”
— Marc Andreessen https://image.nostr.build/505f8a1bb70f029f31cbf868f301c1f0fa1e1b6d0406cca10f617d75ae6fa962.jpg

2024-08-19 15:43:23

Meet your heroes https://image.nostr.build/96cf84a28519547ca2f6669344e0f0287651e94bb5c85ef254c17bd503df303e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/bef023acc2503517c5dd977ba024281734c1be423cc5250077028baeed34e6fd.jpg

2024-08-19 15:41:43

@npub1n5r…0ngn: Smart people, capable people, don't let themselves be pigeonholed into one definition.
That is a disease of credentialism because we created this university system, and now you have to go to university and get a degree in something. Then people ask, "What is your expertise? What is your credential?" That's a question dumb people ask. Smart people don't ask that. Smart people don't need to know your credentials. They just talk to you for five minutes, and they figure out if you know what you're talking about or not.
A really good person, a so-called natural philosopher, can be good at any branch of anything. Nature has no boundaries. Nature has no concept of mathematics versus physics versus chemistry. It is all one thing. Anyone who's either meditated, done psychedelics, or read enough books, they figure that out: it's all one thing.
When you find one thing, it connects to the next thing, connects to the next thing, connects to the next thing. And true creativity jumps boundaries. It can go from anywhere to anywhere. It doesn't have to follow a path of interconnections in between. https://video.nostr.build/4023e124aa461d9ce610b60989495eda68773a51cb604512d519dfa22e3f2e68.mp4

2024-08-08 16:06:21

“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known but to question it.”
— Jacob Bronowski

2024-08-08 16:06:06

The argument for restricting social media for children is analogous to cutting their legs as soon as they learn how to walk.

2024-08-02 23:36:48

Max Keiser: I've always said that Bitcoin has no top, because fiat money has no bottom.
There's no backing for fiat money. It's just paper. And I think a couple of things we're going to see happening.
Number one: People will no longer accept fiat money for Bitcoin. So you're going to try to buy Bitcoin with your fiat money, and no one will take your fiat money. No one will take dollars at all.
So that will be a moment of panic. They’ll be like, "What? It's like, no, here's a million dollars. Here's $10 million. I want one Bitcoin." Like, "No. No way, amigo. We don't want that shit. It's worthless."
So that's going to be panic. Then people are going to have to trade in other stuff for Bitcoin, like gold, or their house, right? And then people are going to be panicked, and they shouldn't be panicked, because the world we live in now is a fake world that's been created with the hologram of fiat money. https://video.nostr.build/ece2c87470fcdd43575f1f6b26cc8089d4203a5cf377526a173bd60c513ca232.mp4

2024-08-02 22:36:14

https://image.nostr.build/1a491882de4d93d390b27f0f52998ef6194065d43393f059ae117d41f134675b.jpg

2024-08-02 18:10:54

Chanting “End the Fed” with Ron Paul at Mises U https://video.nostr.build/f888985bbc7742e4103094514ee6546408cbf7539185ba061cf2e81ab678d8f9.mp4

2024-08-01 21:16:11

Virtue signaling can earn you social approval, but it cannot earn you any objective merit, and it isn’t a substitute for an argument.

2024-08-01 21:15:48

In a free market, wealth inequality is good for the poor.
For example, airlines offer First, Business, and Economy classes to charge different prices for different (and unequal) levels of comfort and service.
Those who purchase higher-priced tickets for extra comfort help cover the fixed costs of the airline, enabling it to offer more affordable prices for economy seats.
If the government were to mandate that airlines only offer economy class tickets, airlines would not be able to segment the market effectively.
They might need to increase the price of economy tickets to cover costs, especially if they can’t charge premium prices to other passengers.
This would limit accessibility for budget-conscious travelers, reducing overall consumer satisfaction, and potentially leading to less efficient use of airline capacity.
So, inequality is not the problem. In fact, it may be beneficial for the poor.

2024-07-31 19:22:57

“DEI is a pervasive system of legalized racial discrimination.”
— Wanjiru Njoya at #MisesU https://image.nostr.build/04ae91d94ae0a8de3f06cf361c576d7d706a54754071e17979bb3c05e148f8fc.jpg

2024-07-31 19:21:58

“Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses... The mark of the creative mind is that it defies a part of what it has learned or, at least, adds something new to it.”
— Ludwig von Mises, Bureaucracy

2024-07-30 15:45:37

Peter Thiel: Maybe you should think of wokeness as hyper Christianity. https://video.nostr.build/f6c092869a38e8debb68eb279920d36f685714f2ea37968e5bbcf0ad7a96d36b.mp4

2024-07-30 00:53:22

¡AFUERA! https://image.nostr.build/524a3c27c460e59dc07ab2063ec8fbc91f8c017802002572106768a44adcefee.jpg

2024-07-30 00:33:01

Gossiping with Per Bylund in between lectures at #MisesU 😁 https://image.nostr.build/a43ff876768e72e28eb56d114bda3922e18462b682e05a2c50803dd919bd16e6.jpg

2024-07-30 00:32:14

https://image.nostr.build/e9022f045a3a6249a479262853d4a879a8636b2d2bea9603433a998b54a2e476.jpg

2024-07-29 22:58:49

Just bought some books from the Mises Store with #bitcoin, thanks to your zaps! https://image.nostr.build/6e7435e53712525879b9dcbc8abb184e0ea7a2c918685829137fe6cf2175c7b4.jpg

2024-07-29 22:51:10

You Are The Carbon They Want To Reduce https://image.nostr.build/ba5ccd5b92a9f72ae9d1da5e0f3f82ef564718624e2e1393e43b593004da83dc.jpg

2024-07-29 22:26:12

I just bought some books from the Mises Store with BTC, thanks to your zaps!

2024-07-29 02:32:17

Renato Moicano spotted at Mises Store https://image.nostr.build/78077deeae1e23abfbaa9878ac1e1d9a6fee3b1568f08caccf6592c522731860.jpg

2024-07-29 02:28:39

Thank you Mises Institute! https://image.nostr.build/22e0655e220619ab8fcc221e56bb27d3565e27f9c152e8686011e3a058f9d24a.jpg

2024-07-27 19:21:23

DEI, in practice, stands for Didn’t Earn It.

2024-07-27 18:59:59

Start them young! https://image.nostr.build/4990dff04603e9b28f45bb89f5c03f23fedce246f31c495d027bcb68f55c5ca7.jpg

2024-07-27 10:36:14

The end goal of #Bitcoin https://image.nostr.build/ba4811afa3b0e06c6ec8b99d23c29d241bde35dacb8f1697bc447fe528b2c288.jpg

2024-07-26 15:33:25

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Based.

2024-07-26 14:57:14

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#nevent1q…62mw

2024-07-26 14:18:37

My conversation with Nat Eliason: https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1816784371480756401

2024-07-26 08:55:57

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Source: https://nautil.us/not-merely-the-finest-tv-documentary-series-ever-made-234658/

2024-07-26 08:55:42

“Improving genes by biological evolution requires vast numbers of individuals to die for every scintilla of progress made. But the ability to encode whole new patterns of behavior and to pass them on by cultural means finally disconnected progress from death.”
— David Deutsch

2024-07-26 08:47:50

Free markets produce unequal prosperity.
Socialism produces equal misery. https://image.nostr.build/45ded8a80f7950fde7bc732d9a97c536b0d0524fd1c9bacbe2bc905988f054be.jpg

2024-07-26 08:46:36

I am once again asking you to https://image.nostr.build/30d2ecb80b3921d26a77f4e5ec613354a8ddd0325a8ffc507dd4ed15f81affb2.jpg

2024-07-25 07:31:08

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My full interview with Johan Norberg: https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1813155503712723258?s=46

2024-07-25 07:30:37

Johan Norberg: The worst environmental problem is really a lack of technological capacity because, in that case, we're going to have to use everything, every resource, just to stay alive.
To me, one perfect illustration—an unfortunate illustration of this—was the pandemic. If you think that degrowth is the solution to global warming, then the pandemic was your perfect example. You should be able to point to the pandemic and say, "That's what we're going to do." Because suddenly people were forced to stay at home. They weren't allowed to go to work. We blocked. Not a single airplane took off. So we really had reverted back to degrowth. And that was obviously a disaster for mankind.
Over a single year, 70 million people were thrown into poverty. But more than that, it didn't help the planet one bit. On the contrary. It only reduced carbon dioxide emission during the first pandemic year by 6%, no more than 6%, which means that if it were to just reach the Paris climate accords by doing less, we would need something like a pandemic every year until 2030, without any rebound in between, which would obviously be a nightmare for humanity in terms of life and health. But it won't help us with the environment.
It will help us with one particular bit of it: no carbon dioxide. But what should we do then, to grow our food and create the kind of things that we need? Well, we would need to use the resources that are there. We won't be able to create new and better and smarter ways of creating resources in an environmentally friendly way. https://video.nostr.build/953769c986ff4ab3bd649723513a723e0648f7cce43ec48e119392eab7500141.mp4

2024-07-25 07:29:58

I love this response by Elon Musk to those who say the world would be better without people in it: https://video.nostr.build/bd4778ab6e8b862c77fb3ca0876be84b49c2286214c290deb66cd1d4a6aac076.mp4

2024-07-24 16:52:35

Elon Musk: Generally, you want education to be as close to a video game as possible, like a good video game. You do not need to tell your kid to play video games. They will play video games on autopilot all day.
So if you can make it interactive and engaging, then you can make education far more compelling and far easier to do.
You really want to disconnect the whole grade level thing from the subjects and allow people to progress at the fastest pace that they can or are interested in, in each subject. It seems like a really obvious thing.
Most teaching today is a lot like vaudeville, and as a result, it's just not that compelling. It's like somebody standing up there and lecturing to you, and they've done the same lecture several years in a row. They're not necessarily all that engaged in doing it.
A university education is often unnecessary. That's not to say it's unnecessary for all people, but I think you probably learn about as much in the first two years. Most of it is from your classmates.
For a lot of companies, they do want to see the completion of the degree because they're looking for someone who's going to persevere and see it through to the end. And that's actually what's important to them.
So it really depends on what somebody's goal is. If the goal is to start a company, I would say there's no point in finishing college. https://video.nostr.build/543b242d05dda0a77789b42f7b308fe25cf61a42ba1bcddc33272bcfd9136b74.mp4

2024-07-24 14:45:17

I’ll be attending Mises University 2024 next week! Who else will be there?

2024-07-23 19:27:49

https://image.nostr.build/24c8481938b8f886cc4072ba93887a03ba2f60a52f1dcad9939bd3d4c2adbc14.jpg

2024-07-23 17:48:07

Schrödinger’s Biden 💀

2024-07-23 17:25:23

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That’s why I’m here 😁

2024-07-23 15:22:50

Based Thomas Sowell https://image.nostr.build/76eaa2e229ee7acdbba20c3de4abc20ad0dc6358996970d539ca1298123ac2e2.jpg

2024-07-23 15:22:13

Them: “What do you want for your birthday?”
Me: https://image.nostr.build/c7a6f430c6ecec93b030ab923e1753ae256d8f6766b4b1504668f26c8fcb5429.jpg

2024-07-23 14:51:29

French philosopher Montaigne on quitting books https://image.nostr.build/9b0dc6c23d0abfcfb14283f6781d449069ac5a1977044d29648516ce52ef6e1c.jpg

2024-07-23 14:31:12

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Yes! #nevent1q…9z6x

2024-07-23 14:27:43

This book is the definition of a page turner. Interviewing Nat for the podcast soon. https://image.nostr.build/b4d5d20c9952e8cda620a5c9a632b746110bb40bda4d6224d1f0ca4560fcdb9a.jpg

2024-07-23 14:23:11

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Thanks for sharing! I’m a fan.

2024-07-23 13:39:51

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💜

2024-07-23 13:00:33

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Who’s been in charge all along? https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1806600407080145207?s=46

2024-07-23 12:58:19

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Ask not where Joe is now, but rather whether Joe was ever here in the past year or more.

2024-07-23 12:22:18

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Source: https://a16z.com/the-techno-optimist-manifesto/

2024-07-23 12:21:54

“Our enemies are not bad people – but rather bad ideas.”
— Marc Andreessen https://image.nostr.build/34a81352525e7c2cff02393dc1a13e546c4cc125cdf0718842fb4db2d6c0aaf6.jpg

2024-07-23 12:15:22

Contrary to the popular political chant of “people over profits,” profits cannot supersede people.
In the free market, profits are proof of serving people.
It’s only the state that profits at the expense of people.

2024-07-23 11:14:58

@npub1n5r…0ngn: If I had to summarize how to make money, at least from what l’ve learned in life, you basically get rewarded by society for giving it what it wants and it doesn’t know how to get elsewhere.
And a lot of people think you can go to school and you can study for how to make money.
But the reality is there’s no skill called business.
What you’re actually trying to figure out is what product or service does society want but does not yet know how to get, and you want to become the person who delivers that, and delivers it at scale.
So that’s really the challenge of how to make money. https://video.nostr.build/a1425437b94b2f4b6666ebf2a999efd563157db1f1e8434d99e645af4cb934fc.mp4

2024-07-23 11:13:40

Schools kill creativity. https://image.nostr.build/398bdd53659bd391af74116527c261bc93aa82501916105665eb6901ae51e768.jpg

2024-07-23 11:13:16

Oh no… https://image.nostr.build/bf9fef2ab92d48839cc7e63eb3b903f18091c4276064123f791c83a159007b66.jpg

2024-07-23 11:05:00

Paul Graham recommends these books to learn about history https://image.nostr.build/a7e04924bf2a7acb2ef711166ae67d76f7ce37962cb277db1d8a4dee498f3119.jpg

2024-07-23 10:31:50

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“Only technology can bypass the administrative state, and that technology is crypto.” #nevent1q…nspd

2024-07-23 09:14:08

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2024-07-23 08:42:25

https://image.nostr.build/ced59a33343fc4db29f0e158f8312951cc204d60e51c09f542ec8f61ff7ce6ef.jpg

2024-07-23 08:41:55

https://video.nostr.build/62dff8b46c6e4a4929353d815afdf14401297eba87e9b79eb9b33006e077b6ad.mp4

2024-07-23 06:43:33

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My full interview with Riva Tez: https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1809550311691813303?s=46

2024-07-23 06:42:44

Riva Tez on crypto’s potential to bypass the administrative state:
I think you have to be quite deep into the technology to understand it.
If people just read about crypto in the news, right, you’ll be like, there’s all these scams, like maybe SBF, you read about prices, whatever, but you don’t understand the general functionality that happens from these decentralized systems.
I have been crypto native now for like, eight years. I don’t have a credit card. All my money’s in USDC ETH. And I see the potential of these tools.
So I do think, and this is kind of what the Mises Institute did say to me, that some of it is slightly generational. And I do understand that a bit because, like, you have to be playing with it. You have to be actually looking at what’s happening at the technology level, not just the price action level.
The mainstream is like, just looking at the price and the news. At the technology level, the potential of the tools, you’ll see how radical crypto is as a tool set to basically bypass a lot of fiscal policy. It really does have the potential to do these things. So I do think some of it is generational. https://video.nostr.build/42ecadf6a21af88ccd179d9080124f7d748b4cd715fab415d81a4c995d77b664.mp4

2024-07-23 06:36:31

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🫂

2024-07-23 06:36:15

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🤣

2024-07-23 06:36:02

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💜

2024-07-23 06:35:56

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💜

2024-07-23 06:35:48

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💜

2024-07-23 06:35:39

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💜

2024-07-23 06:35:18

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Every single day!

2024-07-23 06:34:58

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Bullish on Nostr

2024-07-23 05:10:13

The perfect meme doesn’t exis- https://image.nostr.build/026baee7f14497bb8c4586560ce0dc1661b865df9e825ef67744d01a8b28ac42.jpg

2024-07-23 04:55:01

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Who are some good follows?

2024-07-23 02:56:11

Ask not where is Joe now, but rather whether Joe was ever here in the past year or more.

2024-07-23 02:50:47

“I lost my son essentially. My son Xavier is dead. Killed by the woke mind virus. So I vowed to destroy the woke mind virus after that.”
— Elon Musk https://video.nostr.build/b9bc0b14677f01d125541fda97c3442ba1475f656691469931b08e1d3dbddce6.mp4

2024-07-23 02:32:19

Peter Thiel: I went to the World Economic Forum in Davos the last time in 2013, and of course, they have the same ideas as the mob. And in some ways, it is a mob.
And people are there only in their capacity as representatives of corporations or of governments or of NGOs.
And it really hit me: There are simply no individuals. There are no individuals in the room. There’s nobody there who’s representing themselves.
And it’s this notion of the future I reject. A picture of the future where the future will be a world where there are no individuals. There are no people with ideas of their own. There’s nobody to say, this is wrong. This doesn’t make sense. And I’m going to think differently. I’m going to think for myself. https://video.nostr.build/77b8e97452db0382ea4b6c1e59c55b096ebb9552e44aca9b26ab615ee6deaab1.mp4

2024-07-23 02:28:17

I think about Javier Milei’s speech at the WEF often https://image.nostr.build/9c9ba540d2490523f3ff45551251e1496889a4d8729cb0519dfe90805b039858.jpg

2024-07-23 02:23:49

Has anyone had to move countries or change their residency because of bad crypto laws in their home country?

2024-07-23 02:11:09

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After this reply by Elon, I think my suspension could just be the result of a bug. But still, this wouldn’t have happened on Nostr. https://image.nostr.build/c4130c6e29a2be46400e0e421014956ba79dbad577cf659684dc877f11e76dd5.jpg

2024-07-23 00:19:14

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@npub1sg6…f63m #nevent1q…43vy

2024-07-23 00:18:16

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Substack is great, but for example, I can’t turn on paid subscriptions because, as an individual in India, you’re not allowed to receive Stripe payments from abroad.

2024-07-23 00:18:02

Ad revenue sharing on platforms like X and YouTube is great. I know people who make more money than the average income in their country just by shitposting on X.
You know what’s better?
The ability to own your followers and be paid directly by them in the best money man has created without asking for any central authority’s permission.

2024-07-23 00:03:45

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Exactly. This can’t happen on Nostr 👇 #nevent1q…jke7

2024-07-22 04:00:33

My X account got suspended. I am not told what post(s) or action(s) caused this.
I had over 10k followers.
Necessity is the mother of migration.

2024-07-19 17:08:47

I wonder why. https://image.nostr.build/be1a7dae39ec410ce56bf56029e3caae1ae31646abc4156aba32a18117c89ee1.jpg

2024-07-19 07:42:52

THE CONSTRAINTS OF MONEY
We typically think of constraints as limiting factors to something we want to achieve. This conception is too narrow. Progress often comes from discovering constraints, and from further refining them. Moreover, the discovery of constraints is just another way to describe the growth of knowledge, and knowledge growth is the backbone of all progress. This is why constraints, when applied non-coercively, are catalysts for progress.
This process is most evident in the history of science, which is a story of successive discoveries of the constraints of the natural world. Another example is poetry: without constraints, poetry becomes prose. So why does anyone ever write poetry? Because working within constraints can paradoxically help the poet be more creative.
But this post is about money. Money is a constraint on transactions. To see how, consider life before money. People would barter goods and services directly. Imagine a shoemaker who wanted to purchase apples. Under a barter system, he would have to find an apple seller willing to trade apples for shoes. But what if the apple seller had no desire for shoes? Or perhaps he did want shoes, but didn’t agree with the shoemaker’s valuation, or didn’t have enough apples to match the valuation in the first place. Economists call this the problem of the lack of double coincidence of wants. Barter economies drastically limited the set of viable trades, even though the constraints of monetary prices didn’t even exist! This is quite unlike today when money accounts for roughly half of all human transactions (excluding barter exchanges among family and friends). Before money, anything could have traded for anything—in principle. Further, any possession could have become its own kind of one-time money, purchased solely to be used in a future trade.
But, paradoxically, when we constrain ourselves to use only one good as money we can do more, and new possibilities emerge.
By limiting choosing only one good to serve the role of medium of exchange, all the participants in an economy can immensely reduce their expenditures in terms of time and effort. That is, when the double coincidence of wants is solved, they can directly produce goods and services for immediate conversion into money.
When we are constrained by the use of a single medium of exchange the crucial pricing system emerges. Now prices—as determined by the value judgments of consumers—can be expressed in a single denominator. Prices enable vast networks of people to cooperate by producing, allocating, and consuming resources efficiently. Prices are signals, and they facilitate the transmission of knowledge about people’s wants in a world of scarcity much as language facilitates the transmission of thoughts. Amazingly, prices potentiate cooperation between people who know nothing about each other’s circumstances. This characteristic is often presented as a negative, casting the entire network of prices as a cold and dehumanizing system of money transactions that commodifies and objectifies. However, the mutual ignorance afforded by money enables participants to focus on their specialty without becoming entangled in various cultural or personal considerations of their trading partners. This abstraction allows for transactions across very different cultures and even between adversaries.
The emergence of money as a constraint has supported gains in every aspect of human endeavor. On the other hand, manipulation of this constraint has likewise impaired productivity.
Prices enable several crucial advantages not present in barter systems, but here we focus on two: supply chains and profit-and-loss statements.
In a supply chain, raw materials are converted into a final product through a series of steps. These chains can become incredibly long and convoluted, with many steps stretching and splitting across the globe, relying on processes initiated decades ago. The mind boggles at the complexity involved in even the most mundane of items. To take a famous example, the construction of a pencil requires coordination between loggers in the Pacific Northwest and graphite miners in Sri Lanka. Since manufacturers approximately know how much consumers are willing to pay for pencils, they can build factories and place orders for wood and graphite years before the final product reaches store shelves. Even though the raw materials for a pencil are sourced from across oceans, they are produced at such a scale that their price is almost negligible.
As implied above, entrepreneurs have to guess how much of what consumers will value in the future when making decisions about the production process. Clear, accurate price signals are integral to these entrepreneurs’ ability to forecast and earn profits, and hence to economic progress in general. And because prices are conveyed by money, an increase in the supply of money will decrease its purchasing power, i.e., the money prices of all other goods and services will rise (all else being equal).
That’s why unpredictable creation of new money causes serious problems for supply chains (and thus the entire economy). In such a monetary environment, entrepreneurs are less able to calculate costs of production and potential returns on investment, facing instead a haze of uncertainty that may last for years.
In the unhampered market, the price of a commodity tends to equalize supply and demand. If the price moves away from this balance point, the market will automatically correct itself, bringing the price back to where supply and demand are approximately equal again. But when the government sets prices at a level different from what they would naturally be in a free market, this equilibrium of supply and demand is disturbed. As Thomas Sowell put it, “Reality doesn’t change when the government changes price tags.” Price control simply hides costs, rather than reducing them.
We’ve seen that the constraint of money can get manipulated via increases in its supply. When the money supply rises artificially, it sends wrong signals to entrepreneurs about what people want. They respond by investing in things that do not match actual consumer preferences. In the gold standard era, technological advances made mining gold easier, thus expanding the supply of gold. As society acquired more wealth, which was stored in gold, this wealth could be used to rapidly extract large sums of gold, destroying much wealth in the process. The story of fiat money is similar in this regard—advances in solving coordination problems (related to political and banking systems) enabled groups to enforce a fiat monetary system and degrade the value of money via inflation.
We need a constraint on trade that isn’t subject to manipulation and distortion. We need Bitcoin.

2024-07-19 03:33:47

Banger @npub1n5r…0ngn https://image.nostr.build/5f128e1e608ae72a10e4e21ef2b4b65535ddc8b356291d5ffe180008474c919a.jpg

2024-07-18 16:51:40

“If a child is not happy, you say, ‘What’s wrong?’ On the other hand, if you see an adult who’s very happy, you say, ‘What’s up?’”
— @npub1n5r…0ngn

2024-07-18 16:48:27

https://image.nostr.build/a84dfe9357b80191509a1590e1184bf6420fa7dd5990c6a6ee0eed820168eed6.jpg

2024-07-18 16:47:44

https://image.nostr.build/76eaa2e229ee7acdbba20c3de4abc20ad0dc6358996970d539ca1298123ac2e2.jpg

2024-07-18 16:47:19

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2024-07-17 15:46:27

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😭

2024-07-17 14:13:39

What is the biggest thing preventing your friends from using Nostr?

2024-07-17 05:53:49

Blockchains over bureaucrats

2024-07-17 03:40:54

Who did this? https://image.nostr.build/5159f4877c8173ad7ce0008767fb2d4394e42c8ff381d1035843cee34549c1ca.jpg

2024-07-17 03:40:13

I love this exchange. @npub1gdu…6nak https://image.nostr.build/f56fda035d56a20f7ead76ee55c64b76b11c594c7768e661616543394c983c48.jpg

2024-07-17 03:37:56

My conversation with Johan Norberg: https://x.com/arjunkhemani/status/1813155503712723258?s=46

2024-07-17 03:37:09

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Opt out #bitcoin

2024-07-17 03:36:38

“Imagine if Disney owned the English protocol - licensing vocabulary, minting words, and bounding speech. Now consider the money protocol.”
— @npub1n5r…0ngn