The Dollar is a Lie: Why We Must Trade in Truth

It is a habit of the modern mind, schooled in the superstitions of the marketplace, to view money as a thing of substance. You hold a dollar in your hand and you believe you hold value. You believe it is a store of wealth, a battery of power that you can discharge at your leisure.

This is a barbarian error.

The dollar—and indeed, every currency born of the “pecuniary” (money-based) age—is not a store of value. It is a lien on the future. It is a promissory note that says, “I bet that someone, somewhere, will sweat enough tomorrow to pay for what I consume today”. It is a gambling chip placed on the continued suffering of the working man.

But we are entering the age of the Machine, where the robot does not sweat and the algorithm does not tire. The “future labor” that backs the dollar is evaporating. To cling to this dying token is to cling to a ghost.

It is time to abolish the fiction of the Dollar and adopt the reality of the Dyne.

The Fraud of “Fiat”

Why must the Dollar die? Because it is the engine of our destruction.

The current financial system requires Infinite Growth. To pay back the interest on the world’s debt, the economy must grow larger every year. We must dig up more earth, cut down more trees, and burn more oil, not because we need to, but because the math of the Central Bank demands it.

This creates “Entropic Inflation.” The price of your bread and your phone goes up not just because the government prints money, but because the cost of waste is built into everything you buy. You are paying for the packaging that goes in the trash. You are paying for the “planned obsolescence” that forces you to buy a new phone every two years.

The Dollar feeds on this waste. The Dollar wants your car to break so you have to buy a new one, because that counts as “growth”.

Enter the Dyne: A Currency of Fact

Onerism proposes a radical inversion. We do not need a currency based on the promise of the future (Debt). We need a currency based on the proof of the past (Physics).

We call this the Dyne.

The Dyne is not printed by politicians. It cannot be inflated away. It is minted by Maintenance.

Here is how it works in plain English:

• The Dollar says: “I promise to pay.”
• The Dyne says: “I have fixed.”

In an Oneric economy, you do not earn money by selling a cheap plastic toy that will end up in a landfill. That is an act of vandalism. You earn Dyne by retarding entropy.

When you repair a neighbor’s roof, you have pushed back the chaos of the universe. You have created a physical fact of order. The sensors of the Bureau of Metrology verify this work, and Dyne is added to your ledger. It is a receipt for the energy you successfully used to save the world from rotting.

Why You Should Want the Dyne

You might ask, “Why should I care? I just want to buy groceries.”

You should care because the Dyne liberates you from the Treadmill of Replacement.

In the Dollar economy, you are a rat in a wheel, running to buy things that are designed to break. In the Dyne economy, wealth is measured by Durability. The goal is not to buy a new car every three years, but to have a car that lasts for fifty years.

• No Inflation: You cannot print energy. The supply of Dyne only grows if the world actually gets cleaner, stronger, and more orderly.
• No Planned Obsolescence: Companies go bankrupt if their products break, so they build things to last forever.
• No Usury: The Dyne does not earn interest. It creates a society where you get rich by working, not by waiting.

The Call to Reality

The transition will be jarring. The “get rich quick” schemes of the stock market will vanish, for you cannot speculate on the past. The “passive income” of the landlord will disappear, replaced by the active income of the Steward who keeps the building standing.

But what we gain is sanity. We gain an economy that tells the truth.

The Dollar is a lie that tells us we can consume the planet forever. The Dyne is the honest accounting of a species that wants to survive.

We are done playing with paper. It is time to pay our debt to the universe. It is time to trade in truth.