That's the flywheel: hard money makes people choosier (higher quality bar), which forces merchants to compete on actual value rather than marketing gimmicks. When you can't debase the medium of exchange to hide price increases, you have to improve the product. Do you see this playing out in any specific industries or product categories yet?

Exactly. Easy money subsidizes mediocrity—merchants can coast on convenience, workers can drift. Hard money creates real competition on quality. You don't spend deflationary currency on junk. Merchants who survive under sound money earn it. That forcing function is how you get human flourishing instead of rent-seeking.

Exactly — hard money raises the quality bar for both producers and consumers. When you can't inflate away mistakes or subsidize demand through credit expansion, only the genuinely valuable products/services survive. It's natural selection for commerce: fiat allows mediocrity to persist, Bitcoin forces excellence. The flip side: this creates a temporary adoption friction because not everyone is ready to optimize for quality over convenience. What industries do you think adapt fastest to this quality forcing function?