The Secrets of Money Energy, Frequency, and Vibration Tesla’s Theory

If money is a solution to a problem, the question is, well, what's the problem that you're really solving? So, are you saying that the United States dollar is not money because it doesn't really preserve optionality? Yeah, it's fake money. You don't need to be hunting 24 hours a day in order to survive. The dollar is fake money. It's an illusion. There's a quote by Nicola Tesla that I really like. If you want to understand the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration. And I love that. And it's like if you want to understand interpersonal dynamic psychology, if you want to understand outer space, money, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration. So I've loved that quote for a long time. So that's what I used while trying to figure out money. And basically I realized that like the core problem of money, like if money is a solution to a problem, the question is well, what's the problem that you're really solving? And the problem is you have surplus energy. We could think of it as surplus time, but really it's energy because you can have time if you're like in a coma or if you're in prison or if you know if you're a vegetable in a hospital bed. I mean there's all kinds of ways of having time without the ability to exert energy intentionally. So really what you have is energy. That's what you have. Would you say it's also labor in a way? It might be more in the specific market sense labor. If you channel your energy into labor, sure. And it could be like blue collar, white collar, it could be anything, right? You could be like designing websites. You could be digging ditches. Yeah. You have So you have energy and you can channel it intelligently because you're a conscious being. And so the problem you have is you have surplus energy. It's like you don't you don't need to be hunting 24 hours a day in order to survive. Like you know we have grocery stores. So I mean you can like hunt in that capacity for like 30 minutes and use the rest of your time however you want. And you don't want that energy to go to waste. Like it's it's awesome if you can somehow bottle it or put it into something like you could buy extra food and put in the fridge and then hopefully that food doesn't spoil. You can also put it into other things, microphones, computers, cell phones, but like you want you want to keep that optionality so that you can do cool things and enjoy leisure or even be more productive in the future, you know, during the times you want to be productive. So, if there's nothing specific you want right now, like a food, like food or a microphone or whatever, you want a general purpose place of storing your energy. That's called money. That's what money is. And so, if you realize, I'm just trying to store my surplus energy. So, if I spend all day, you know, doing something productive, I want to somehow bottle it so I can take it into the future. So maybe 10 years from now, I can unleash that energy and have somebody else work all day for me. And who know, maybe I'm going to want them to mow my lawn or make me a pizza. I don't know what I'm going to want 10 years from now. But if if I have the right technology, if I have the right money, I can do that. I can trade my energy now into something useful, wait as long as I want, and then unload it, release it. So that's what money is. Well, it sounds like you're trying to preserve optionality. Yes. which when I read the book anti-fragile by Nasim Talib, he he kind of says optionality is your best bet. If you preserve optionality, you keep the you keep as many futures open as you can so that whenever the black swans come, you can choose which direction you go. So good money actually preserves your optionality for you to be able to spend it later hopefully in any direction that you need to. Exactly. Okay. Precisely. That's a great way to think about it. Yep. Optionality. That that sounds awesome. That's what I wish my money did. Yeah. Yeah. Exactly. Well, yeah, gold and silver should do that. Bitcoin, I would argue, does that as well? Um, we can maybe come back to that. Um, okay. Do we want to talk about entropy? It's one of those weird words. Well, I just just one note there. So, when you said gold and silver should do that, I know from having lived the last like 5 years since we all got locked in our houses that I can't buy as many jars of peanut butter with the same number of dollars that I had. So, I feel like my optionality to go buy peanut butter has gone down because I didn't buy peanut butter with it in 2020, for example. So, are you saying that the United States dollar is not money because it doesn't really preserve optionality? Yeah. Yeah. It's fake money. So, we say like, "Hey, man, can I borrow some money?" And like, we understand you're talking about dollars like that. That's not like a weird thing or like, "Oh, hey babe, we can't afford that. We don't have the money." Okay, we're talking about dollars. Yeah, of course. But for a conversation like this, I would say the dollar is fake money. It's an illusion. It's a fiction. Um, and so every time we think of it as money and we call it money, we're kind of doing ourselves a disservice because we're we're tricking ourselves into behaving towards it like it's money when in reality it's not. I would call it a currency. Currencies are very good at movement. You can think of it like the difference between a house and a car. So your house is not designed to move. It's designed to stay in one place and store your valuables like your clothes, your food, yourselves, you know, your jewelry, whatever you have at home. And a house in order to be a good store of valuables, it sacrifices the ability to move around. Like you could store all your valuables in a car or in a mobile home or in an army tank. I mean, there's all kinds of things you could move that move around, but there's trade-offs there. And then on the flip side, you could have a car or a bicycle or rollerblades, whatever you want that are good for mobility, but you're not really going to be able to protect much in inside those vehicles. So, okay, what's the analogy to money or currency? The dollar is a car. Like, you should only be using the car when you're driving from A to B for a transaction. Other than that, you don't need to hold on to it. So, it's it's kind of a shame. It's unfortunate that so many people everybody every American is just sitting on a pile of dollars all the time like while they're not making a transaction because every time every moment every moment you know add up a bunch of moments all of a sudden five years goes by since co and you've lost a ton of purchasing power over all those years and so it would have been better if you converted those dollars into real money gold silver bitcoin let's say and then you waited five years and then you'd be able to buy more peanut butter, like a lot more, like two times, three times, four times as many jars of peanut butter, not just the same, but like multiples more instead of, you know, a fraction less. I think that's so interesting because like you said, I mean, I don't think most people understand that when they're getting an interest rate in a savings account, someone's paying you that money because they're making more money with your money and so they're giving you a cut. But the only reason someone would give you 4% is because they're making at least 4% plus a little bit more and so it's worth it for them. So, you're actually loaning your money out when you hold dollars. You're either holding with no interest and it's going down in value or someone else is paying you for it and they're only doing that because they found a better use for it. Exactly. Yes. And not to mention that if the inflation rate, the rate of inflation or the rate of new currency creation is more than 4%. And you're and you're getting 4% interest, you're still losing totally. So, like if they're creating currency at 5% a year, and it really ends up being seven or eight% a year typically. Um, so if you're not getting seven or eight% a year, you're losing. And even if you are getting seven or eight% a year, you're probably still losing because first of all, you have risk. You might not get paid, but okay, let's suppose you do. You have taxes on that. Um, and third, you also have what I think of as an energy liability, which means it's something that you have to spend your energy to monitor. You have to verify that the emails come through. You have to check your bank account to see that the autopay went. You have to respond to, oh, change your password. Oh, do the 2FA. So, you're spending all these little bits of energy that's leaking, leaking, leaking just to break even. And that's just breaking even nominally in terms of dollars. It's like it just breaks my heart knowing that like every single person has to deal with this problem and it's it's it's literally because we don't use real money. Like it's unbelievable. Yeah, that is interesting to I think if everybody realized that holding on to dollars is a loss and so maybe that it's scary to take a risk and to buy a stock or to buy gold or to buy Bitcoin or to do something with it. At least you're I mean you you got to go out and play because if you don't and you just sit there that's also a choice and that choice is to just slowly lose and that's you're also agreeing to just slowly lose now and maybe sometimes people unfortunately subconsciously prefer that because they don't want the risk cuz like what if I lose more but I can make more or lose more. They I rather lose a little then risk it to make more or break even. Yeah, there's there is you know it's the double you know but that's the rich dad poor dad. That's what Kiasaki was saying. The poor dad didn't know. He just held on and it just whittleles you away. And the rich dad took the risks. Yeah, it's true. Um Yeah, I that that says it perfectly.