Humanity has always measured value through time. Long before banks, balance sheets, or fiat currencies, life itself was bound to a universal clock: sunrise and sunset, the seasons, the life cycle of plants and animals. Nature is not inflationary — it doesn’t print more hours into a day or more years into a life. It is inherently deflationary: resources deplete, opportunities pass, time runs out. Fiat currency, by contrast, is designed around inflation. Governments and central banks create mon...