/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>54924372
Your timeline of comparison is off.

>cars are tangible and have utility
Why would I need an expensive car, when I have perfectly good legs or a horse

>If btc failed, the world would continue
If cars failed in 1910, the world would continue. If btc fails in 2100, all of civilization might collapse

>It's not a store of value
Everything is a store of value. I can stockpile cans, spam emails, animal pelts, e-girl farts, jars of pollution - it has value to someone somewhere. This just returns to utility

The major currencies of life are:
>Money
>Time
>Health

When you're young, you have all the time and health in the world, but no money. When you're an adult, you'll maintain your health and have money, but no time. As you get older, you should retain some money and prioritize your time back, but find you're limited in health. So then, balance is the key.

There are however, 3 minor currencies in life:
>Maneuverability
Which is the ability to readily transfer the 3 major currencies EG: I can take an extra shift whenever I want, I can take 2 weeks off for my holiday with only a penalty to my time/money etc, I can go to the gym instead of working today
>Experience
Why would one trade time, money and health to skydive, or to travel and do ketamine in a european club, or hike everest?
>Social capital
Your network, friends, family which can provide the scaffolding for access to job opportunities, business partnerships, mentorship, emotional support, and resources

Remember those scenes in the Grapes of Wrath where they were culling the pigs and covering them with lime, and throwing potatoes in the river, and dousing oranges with kerosene, and having mules rip up the crops? All while people were starving?

haha, what a crazy fiction

>>52457233
Maybe if you become a major shareholder for a legal brothel, you could hire yourself as a 'consultant' for quality control, and QC whores for claimable cash. Depends on the law in your country