This week’s conversation with Jeff Booth, entrepreneur, venture capitalist, and author of The Price of Tomorrow, examines how Bitcoin is fundamentally repricing the world.
Booth argues that exponential technological deflation collides with an inflationary, debt-based monetary system that cannot allow prices to fall.
This paradox forces governments to manipulate money, centralize power, and accelerate coercion, while Bitcoin quietly enables an infinite, positive-sum game built on truth and value creation.
The discussion explores global debt, sovereign adoption, the role of gold and stablecoins, the impact of AI-driven deflation, and why individuals and businesses alike must integrate Bitcoin into their balance sheets to survive the transition.
Debt, Deflation, and the Fiat Trap
Global debt has exploded to $650 trillion, tethering nearly all global assets to an unsustainable liability base.
A debt-based system cannot tolerate deflation; it collapses when credit contracts. Thus, government manipulation of the money is the only path forward.
Every new productivity gain requires even more debt expansion, creating exponential fragility.
Fiat economies create a zero-sum dynamic where wealth accrues to the top through coercion.
“Bitcoin isn’t going up. All prices are falling against it.”
Building Businesses on a Hard Standard
Bitcoin balance sheets create discipline: companies build sustainably without reliance on cheap debt or venture subsidies.
Booth notes his portfolio companies are profitable faster, add Bitcoin monthly, and scale without new capital.
Contrast with fiat-VC model: “get big fast,” fueled by low cost of capital, often leading to decades of unprofitable growth.
Businesses operating on Bitcoin rails express true free market dynamics, reward flows directly to value creation.
Family businesses face extinction under fiat inflation; Bitcoin offers survival by protecting margins and competitiveness.
Sovereign Adoption and Strategic Assets
Governments first sought to ban Bitcoin; now they seek to co-opt it into fiat frameworks.
Stablecoins are “guaranteed loss coins” — they preserve dollar demand but guarantee purchasing power decline.
Gold’s rally reflects recognition of fiat fragility, yet gold always centralizes and can be confiscated.
For adversaries like China and Russia, gold is a control mechanism; Bitcoin undermines control structures.
The U.S. faces a strategic choice: embrace Bitcoin or risk ceding leadership as others accumulate hard assets.
Technology, AI, and the Future of Work
AI is advancing faster than most realize, what was “toy coding” six months ago is now core productivity.
Marginal cost of production trends toward zero; deflation accelerates across sectors.
Bitcoin provides an accurate measuring stick for exponential productivity gains.
Public narratives that “AI will solve the debt problem” misunderstand the paradox: AI accelerates deflation, worsening fiat fragility.
Booth foresees massive disruption in corporate structures and global labor as robotics and AI merge.
Personal Agency and the Transition Ahead
The shift is chaotic because it depends on individuals redirecting time, energy, and capital into Bitcoin.
Booth stresses his own journey: moving 95% of his energy from fiat into Bitcoin was life-changing.
Adoption will remain slow; most people cling to fiat belief systems and fear-based control.
Empathy is essential: every Bitcoiner once had to unlearn fiat lies; others are still trapped on the treadmill.
Every person and every business should hold Bitcoin on their balance sheet as a survival imperative.
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