Once identity is stripped away, what’s left is work. Not status. Not rank. Not story. Just contribution completed or not completed.
Identity creates rank. Rank creates permission. Permission creates abuse. Strip identity out, and the pyramid collapses into a flat plane of contribution. Which is why the current ranking systems only excel at one thing: WAR. They exist to decide: who commands who obeys who dies first Outside of that context, they’re comically inefficient.
Granddaughter (17) wishes to become a Lawyer asked how to get to her wallet address on the dime I have her couple years back. I fed this to her young mind: When you watch long enough, the contradictions start talking to each other. Energy costs rise globally — extraction, transport, maintenance, labor. Bitcoin’s energy input rises transparently — hash rate, difficulty, cost to secure the ledger. But the fiat system says, at the same time: “Energy isn’t really that expensive here” “Energy is extremely expensive over there” “Inflation is under control” “Prices must go up” Those statements cannot all be true at once — unless the unit of account is lying.