Convenience is killing us.
What once felt like progress has quietly become a weapon. Supermarkets were meant to feed millions, but under fiat they turned into temples of corruption: shelves filled with calories without nutrients, food engineered to addict rather than nourish, and medicines prescribed to manage symptoms instead of healing causes. What looked like abundance is in fact scarcity in disguise, scarcity of health, of vitality, of meaning.
As I write in my upcoming book Brick by Brick: Building a Sovereign Life on Bitcoin (publishing October 31):
> “Supermarkets are temples of convenience. Yet under fiat, convenience became corruption: calories without nutrients, pills without healing, jobs without meaning.”
The hidden cost of fiat is not only measured in inflation charts or debt statistics. It is measured in our bodies, our attention spans, and our ability to live free lives.
The Fiat Convenience Trap
Fiat money does not simply debase your savings. It warps the entire structure of the world around you. Incentives drive behavior, and when the system rewards shortcuts, the result is decay.
In food, this decay takes the form of seed oils, processed carbohydrates, and plastic bread that can sit on a shelf for months. In health, it shows up as an endless cycle of chronic disease treated with pills rather than prevention, a model that profits from illness rather than cures. And in the realm of attention, it floods us with noise, pulling us into addictive cycles of scrolling, clicking, and consuming, while our capacity to focus on meaningful work slowly evaporates.
In Brick by Brick, I describe this contrast directly:
> “Fiat health is sitting all day, eating seed oils, and swallowing pills. Sovereign health is moving, eating animals, and getting sun.”
The same is true for our minds. Fiat thrives on distraction. It steals our ability to think deeply, to plan for the future, to live deliberately. A distracted citizen is easier to govern, easier to sell to, and easier to control.
The Path of Exit
But there is an exit. And it doesn’t require withdrawing completely from society or retreating to the mountains. It begins with small, deliberate choices that add up over time.
Choosing real food over processed products. Choosing to lift, move, and walk instead of submitting to sedentary decay. Choosing to spend half an hour in the sun instead of losing that same time to endless digital noise. Choosing to save in Bitcoin rather than watch your fiat dissolve silently in the background.
None of these actions seem revolutionary on their own. Yet together they form the bricks of sovereignty. One sovereign meal. One sovereign action. One sovereign sat. Every brick you carry becomes part of a stronger wall against the corrosive tide of fiat incentives.
Bitcoin as Foundation
At the base of it all is money. Money is the foundation of civilization, and when the foundation is cracked, everything built upon it decays. Fiat debases not only our savings, but our behavior, our choices, even our time.
Bitcoin is the opposite. It is uncompromising truth in a world addicted to lies. It is scarce where fiat is infinite, disciplined where fiat is reckless, low time preference where fiat is short-sighted. Michael Saylor said it best: “Bitcoin is the apex property of the human race. Everything else is decaying.”
When money becomes real, life begins to heal. Bitcoin is medicine for money. And once money heals, the body and mind can follow.
Brick by Brick
The exit from fiat is not a leap, it is a construction project. One brick at a time, one sovereign action at a time.
> “One sovereign meal, one sovereign choice, one sovereign sat at a time. That’s how we escape the fiat lifestyle; brick by brick.” (Brick by Brick: Building a Sovereign Life on Bitcoin)
This is the lesson I wish I had understood at the beginning of my journey. It is not about timing markets or predicting collapse. It is about building a resilient life now, long before the old system falls.
Every brick compounds. And when enough of us carry them, the wall becomes a citadel.
A Note on my Book
This article is drawn from my upcoming book, Brick by Brick: Building a Sovereign Life on Bitcoin. It weaves together money, health, data, attention, and energy into what I call the Sovereign Stack, a blueprint for opting out of fiat and reclaiming resilience.
The official release date is October 31, 2025. Pre-orders are open now: https://twentyone.life/brick-by-brick
If you’ve ever felt that convenience is quietly killing you, in food, in health, in money, or in focus, then this book is for you. It’s a call to build, one brick at a time.