The idea of The Natural Investor is to explore nature’s relationship with money, capital and investment.
My origins stem from an entrepreneurial family from Ireland, raised in the south of Spain, disciplined in mathematics and finance. Curious from birth.
Through my experience auditing reserves for insurance companies, I've witnessed how the incentives set by Central Banks can heavily influence fiat users* choices, which is currently trending towards centralized control over the decision making process for resource allocation.
In contrast, the incentives that stem from the budding universal monetary system, Bitcoin, completely flip the playbook on how to build and maintain wealth. A pristinely liquid and malleable capital is emerging in the form of Bitcoin. How to think about saving, capital and investment has also shifted onto a different paradigm.
By understanding the intrinsic motivations guiding human behavior and our self-perceptions, we can craft skillful strategies in capital management that align with our true nature. Employing the lens of Austrian economics enables us to navigate these realms with a pursuit of truth and clarity.
Bitcoin is Natural - Why engrossing ourselves in this network as a species leads us to more collective awareness by alleviating the individual from some deep rooted distractions. The talk below delves into this. Adopting Bitcoin - El Salvador November 2023.
As traditional currencies lose their capacity to safeguard purchasing power, individuals face mounting pressure to seek investments offering escalating returns. This imperative for exponential growth arises from the need to offset burgeoning debt, interest obligations, and the erosive impact of inflation.
Workers salaries worldwide automatically passively invest in global markets without those workers knowing the consequences of their own investment. This detaches our capital allocation from our own best interest. The incentives are distorted, leading to money managers investing in fast growing, fragile investments. This removes our ability to shape the world around us. Most governments incentivize these investments to inflate. These inflated asset prices are also helpful for states’ tax revenues. The prices of the markets are swollen, the boom-bust swings are becoming more aggressive.
The idea of investing in yourself arises as you understand the nature of bitcoin and what it means as the new global money. Our default is shifting from fueling faceless multinationals who gain from the ongoing global wealth extraction and redistribution, to figuring out how we can invest in our own capacity to create, starting from our health, mind and body and extending out to tools that help us serve ourselves and those around us in our community. We start to learn what is value, and how we differ in perspectives as humans. Our ability to co-ordinate around a sound monetary medium forms the bedrock for cultivating relationships steeped in integrity and trust.
To know what investing in yourself really means you need to figure yourself out. What makes you tick. What grabs your core and satiates your curiosity. Put yourself in the best position to serve others for the long term.
Ghandi:
“The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.”
Bitcoin allows you to put yourself in a position to do that.