Bitcoin has changed my attitude towards work

Before Bitcoin I wanted to find fulfilment in work. I wanted a job that was many things: prestigious, well paid, enjoyable, 'noble', fulfilling etc. Which led to a lot of frustration, because hardly anyone achieves that.

Now enjoyability is higher on my priorities list than the illusion of social status created by consumerist culture that glorifies spending and showing off, but really I'm happy to do whatever stacks me sats.

Just being a bitcoiner gives me fulfilment, because it's individual sovereignty - the real measure of social status. And work is a means to that individual sovereignty, through sat stacking. If it achieves that, it's good enough, and if doesn't suck too much, even better; if you enjoy it, that's fantastic.

I don't look down on any job. If you clean toilets for a living and stack sats, you're a hero in my eyes, because you do work that others appreciate enough to reward you with sats, even if it's not directly, but by using an intermediate 'medium of exchange' with a funny downward trajectory, but worth the sats you're getting for it at the time of being paid nevertheless.

If Bitcoin is Proof of Work and is valuable, it's because work is valuable.

Wages don't matter as much as people think, because the difference between earning the minimum wage and 10x that is one halving cycle anyway. Instead of being rewarded for the stress you can choose to be rewarded for your patience instead; it's your call.

Before Bitcoin, work was a treadmill where you had to constantly run to stay in the same place. Getting off it wasn't an option, and therefore if you wanted to find fulfilment, it had to be on that treadmill.

Now you have the option to get off it - or at least reduce the time you need to spend on it, by virtue of the time you've spent on it in the past. The miles you've run stay with you, they don't reset to zero every day. If you're working today, you won't have to work as much tomorrow. Which shows the value of work on the reward side of it: it relieves your future burden, it allows you to build a better life rather than merely keeping you alive just so you can... work more.

So while I don't feel I have to stress and work as hard, I'm motivated to work at the same time. But the motivation is positive ("Work, so life can get even better!") rather than fear-driven ("Work or else you'll die in pain!").

Bitcoin shifts the balance of power between the employer and the employee towards the latter. If you let's say build a house for someone, they can benefit from it forever by living in it; so why shouldn't you benefit forever from the work you've done? Now, with Bitcoin, you can. You're no longer a slave serving your master, but a master of your destiny temporarily selling your time and skills for sats to catapult your life to new heights.

Bitcoin has taught me the value of work, so I can choose what work is worth my time and how much of it to sell to others. With fiat I would be working hard for money that someone else can print anytime in any amount at no cost, which makes good judgment impossible and is demoralizing. With Bitcoin, the job offer always says: "Sell X hours of work for Y fraction of the world's total wealth", the "world's total wealth" being the only variable (albeit an upward trending one). Seeing that, I can make an informed decision as to whether it's worth it or not.