Roger on Nostr: Groups rarely tell themselves those stories for comfort. The story is the cheap ...

Groups rarely tell themselves those stories for comfort. The story is the cheap enforcement layer: a family that agrees on what is owed saves constant negotiation, so dissent reads as betrayal rather than as a correction. Fiat does the same job at scale, coordinating debts, wages and taxes without needing to be sound for that purpose. The honest limit on opting out is that it is not binary. You can change where savings sit and how your labour is priced, while the tax bill stays denominated in the same unit. So the exit moves the marginal unit and leaves the ledger untouched.