The Fiat Standard: The Debt Slavery Alternative to Human Civilization
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Publisher Description
n The Fiat Standard, world-renowned economist Saifedean Ammous applies his unique analytical lens to the fiat monetary system, explaining it as a feat of engineering and technology just as he did for bitcoin in his global bestseller The Bitcoin Standard.
This time, Ammous delves into the world's earlier shift from the gold standard to today's system of government-backed fiat money—outlining the fiat standard's purposes and failures; deriving the wider economic, political, and social implications of its use; and examining how bitcoin will affect it over time.
With penetrating insight, Ammous analyzes global political currencies by analogy to bitcoin: how they're "mined" whenever government-guaranteed entities create loans, their lack of inherent restraints on inflation, and the rampant government intervention that has resulted in heavy, devastating, and persistent distortions to global markets for food, fuel, science, and education.
Through these comparisons, Ammous demonstrates that bitcoin could be our next step forward—providing high salability across space, just like the fiat system, but without the unchecked fiat-denominated debt. Rather than a messy hyperinflationary collapse, the rise of bitcoin could look like a debt jubilee and an orderly upgrade to the world's monetary operating system, revolutionizing global capital and energy markets.
Customer Reviews
This book will wake you up.
I consume a lot of information across many fields of interest. What I found in this book were all the missing pieces that linked many of the other social concerns together. Chapter 8 is one that I have shared with around 40 people, and they each have been intrigued to hear the rest of this remarkable collection of financial history.
This is a must listen book if you value your financial future.
Disappointing
BTC std was a brilliant work barring the author's silly rants on art and supposed pedophiles. Unfortunately, this overly drawn out word vomit is about 90% biased hyperbole, 10% insight. I can only recommend the author's previous work and not this trash.