The question of which money humans will choose, therefore, boils down to which good, or goods, any individual believes will best store the sum total of their lifetime of daily labor (i.e., their life force).
Because the most important trades we make are the ones we make with our future selves, humanity’s Darwinian propulsion towards holding the soundest money possible is based on our intuitive understanding that the longer our choice of money can hold its value, the greater the potential compounding benefits of our life-to-date-production.
Our timeless search for ever-sounder money is an individual, intuition-based optimization – as unstoppable as evolution – because we instinctively know that our survival is at stake.
Will our life force be durably storable in a particularly wellchosen money, and therefore potentially accumulate, enhancing our potential longevity? Or will it dissipate, no matter how hard we work, because we chose the wrong storage vessel, threatening our very lives and those of our progeny?
- an excerpt from the 2-minute version of Stone Ridge 2020 Shareholder Letter https://www.2minutebitcoin.org/blog/stone-ridge-2020-shareholder-letter
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"content": "The question of which money humans will choose, therefore, boils down to which good, or goods, any individual believes will best store the sum total of their lifetime of daily labor (i.e., their life force).\n\nBecause the most important trades we make are the ones we make with our future selves, humanity’s Darwinian propulsion towards holding the soundest money possible is based on our intuitive understanding that the longer our choice of money can hold its value, the greater the potential compounding benefits of our life-to-date-production.\n\nOur timeless search for ever-sounder money is an individual, intuition-based optimization – as unstoppable as evolution – because we instinctively know that our survival is at stake.\n\nWill our life force be durably storable in a particularly wellchosen money, and therefore potentially accumulate, enhancing our potential longevity? Or will it dissipate, no matter how hard we work, because we chose the wrong storage vessel, threatening our very lives and those of our progeny?\n\n- an excerpt from the 2-minute version of Stone Ridge 2020 Shareholder Letter https://www.2minutebitcoin.org/blog/stone-ridge-2020-shareholder-letter",
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