Chapter 2: The Anchoring of Value
In the previous chapter, we established that time is a form of “payment”: we use life’s budget to purchase fragments of history. This solves the mechanism of time’s passage. But it raises a deeper economic question: Why is this transaction valuable?
If in the second book The Ascension of the Spiral, we have already proven that the universe’s total budget (speed of light/computational power) is experiencing exponential hyperinflation, then logically, the value of time should depreciate. Why do we still feel every second is so precious in today’s bits?
This chapter will reveal the geometric origin of Value. We will see that value does not depend on the total amount, but on the vast gap between “Realization” and “Potential”.