Frederick Bott
2 min readNov 19, 2021

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Very cool, thanks for posting.
There is something about value wrapped up in all of that, which seems to be fundamental to the problems we are seeing about now.
It has to do with the way we treat energy, and money.
We take all our energy from the Earth in packets, which appear in accounts, or in numbers of pieces of things, all represented by money, which we create as debt, which is work yet to be done.
Whereas the energy of the sun,the root source of all energy flows continuously, the only actual work of creation in progress are the continuous processes that flow from the energy of it, the instant we try to capture that as a fixed number, we have frozen time, it becomes valueless without time, and yet that is what is represented by all capital, and all money, as we have used it so far.
I think that is changing, as it has to, for us to begin living in the real world of consequences for actions.
We are starting to see money-as-sunlight in the form of proof-of-work tokens, which like energy is infinitely more useful and valuable when actually flowing, than sat still doing nothing, like in an engine we are more interested in the power, which contains units of time, we are moving to an improved evaluation of value, with the conclusion that it all comes with the energy of the sun for free, and the way to get maximum value from it is to pass it on, if we can’t do anything to add value to it, even as donation, as it is given to us, for free, with as little delay as possible, as money comes to align with energy, and physical power, the system is changing such that we will be rewarded for that, rather than for witholding.

With that, the world is in process of turning upon its head, we are seeing just the beginning with what we call inflation, that is the move from money representing capital, like gold, to money representing live energy, as it comes from the sun.

That fixes an awful lot of problems which are rooted in our misperceptions of the connection between time, and energy, it seems to me.

I know I didn’t do the best job of expressing this, but thanks for making me try!

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Frederick Bott
Frederick Bott

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