Date: 2025-07-18 · basis: publication date recorded in the magazine inventory
Tim Niemeyer
Tim Niemeyer argues that fiat's ability to create money out of thin air incentivises high time preference, showing up as credit-card debt, lottery and memecoin gambling, weak careers and shallow relationships and poor food choices. He insists it is not entirely normies' fault, then offers strategies for helping family and friends: educate them, meet them where they are, build trust, lead by example and accept that some will never listen. He cites John Medina, Bankrate, Forbes, Matthew Lysiak's Fiat Food, Michael Saylor and Jordan Peterson, and closes on the idea that Bitcoiners' "pain trade" is simply waiting.
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Time is a fickle bitch.https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/time-is-a-fickle-bitch/
The fiat monetary system has the ability, thanks to central banking, to create money out of thin air.https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/time-is-a-fickle-bitch/
We have to play to our strengths though; we have to play the long game.https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/time-is-a-fickle-bitch/
An argument that fiat money drives high time preference and Bitcoiners should meet normies patiently.
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Stackchain Magazine article, catalogue item 53, category opinion-essay. Summarised by the archive from the published piece; quotes below are verbatim excerpts. Original: https://www.stackchainmagazine.net/time-is-a-fickle-bitch/