Quote from: dscotese on March 16, 2013, 09:18:58 PM

Fiat currency has brainwashed you!
Ok, it brainwashed me too... The simple question is: What unit of account do you use when you put a monetary value on something? Say an hour of your time doing something not-so-fun but at which you're good (like what you do to earn a living). What's it worth? Do you use a fiat currency for the answer? Is it hard to use something else? That is the effect of fiat currency brainwashing.

Don't feel bad. I have a hard time using stuff other than dollars to value my time (and everything else), but I'm aware of the problem and always looking at ways to solve it.

The owner of voluntaryist.com turned me onto Erik Voorhees' blog, which helps a lot to show the value of bitcoin without ever insinuating or implying that fiat currency has any value.

It's not about me personally being brainwashed. Quite frankly I understand that what I think doesn't really matter one way or another very much. I tend to be clear headed and optimistic. The problem with that is that most others aren't for whatever reason. So it's about the mob mentality and if everyone is saying left is right then well.. it is. If everyone is brainwashed by fiat then unbrainwashing everyone is going to be a very difficult task if that's what its going to take for BTC to succeed.

That aside, your question is too tempting not to answer. Without using fiat or btc I'd say an hour of my time in food is worth a fast food combo meal, pack of smokes and one day stay at a 1 star motel.