Sometimes I look around and wonder:

Why do we think more is always better?

More people.

More money.

More buildings, more babies, more digits in a bank account.

And the truth hits me:

We’re not just living in a system of excess.

We’re taught to worship it.

Backstory:

When I was on the train before Taylor Swift Era’s concert, two men beside us were talking about crypto. One of them said, “I just hope USDT gets regulated. It’s getting out of hand.”

It stayed with me.

Because I thought, what even is USDT?

It’s not even from the U.S. anymore. Its main operations are in El Salvador.

So why the obsession with regulating it?

Because Tether prints a digital version of the U.S. dollar.

Just like central banks print paper dollars.

The only difference is… it’s not their hands on the press anymore.

And I realized, maybe Tether just looked at the global system and said:

“Well, if you can do it, why can’t we?”

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That’s the same energy I feel when I see people having children for the wrong reasons:

Because of tradition.

Because of pressure.

Because they think it will fix a relationship or fill a void.

Because they never stopped to ask:

“Am I really ready to bring life into a world already full to the brim?”

I love children. I love animals.

But this world is drowning in human-centered everything.

Forests are cut down for more homes.

Rivers are poisoned for more factories.

The air is choked because there are just too many of us.

Not enough space to breathe, not for animals, not even for ourselves.

And while we multiply, we extract.

We race to mine rare earth minerals to build chips and gadgets, phones, tablets, laptops, cars,

only to toss them aside when we wake up one day and decide,

“I’m bored. I want the new one.”

We dig up the earth, poison the rivers,

then dump the old tech into landfills that leak back into the soil.

It’s like we’re turning the planet into our dirty closet, out of sight, out of mind.

And I wonder…

What kind of life are we handing to the future,

if we’ve already taken everything from them before they even arrive?

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Bitcoin, oddly enough, helped me see this.

Because it taught me:

What is scarce becomes sacred.

And what can be printed endlessly? It gets abused.

That’s the fiat system. That’s overpopulation. That’s consumerism.

It’s all the same disease: unchecked growth without accountability.

Jeff Booth said, Bitcoin is repricing everything.

That’s not just about money. That’s about how we value life.

It means we stop pricing the world in terms of what we want,

and start asking what it actually needs.

Maybe it’s time to stop growing outward,

and start growing inward.

Less noise.

Less printing.

Less breeding without meaning.

Less extracting without healing.

Just less,

so that what remains… can be more.

More thoughtful.

More balanced.

More alive.