The Price of Tomorrow

Jeff Booth, a technology entrepreneur, starts from a simple observation: technology is relentlessly deflationary. It makes goods and services faster, better and cheaper every year, and that abundance should raise everyone's standard of living. Yet our debt-based monetary system requires steady inflation to keep functioning, so central banks fight the natural fall in prices by printing money and piling on debt. Booth argues this collision — abundance pushing prices down, policy forcing them up — is the hidden force behind stagnant wages, asset bubbles and widening inequality, and that trying to inflate our way out only deepens the hole. He makes the case, in plain language, that we will eventually have to accept a deflationary, technology-driven world and sound money with it.

This is the macro 'why now' behind sound money, and it lands even for someone who has never thought money was a problem. It reframes inflation not as bad luck but as a design choice, which is the exact door most people walk through on their way to Bitcoin. A strong, non-technical first read that makes the rest of the shelf make sense.