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Dollar Debasement 101: The $10K Miami Beach Acre
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To make currency debasement tangible, Saylor reaches into his own history: he owns a house on Miami Beach waterfront and has the deed of sale showing two acres sold for $20,000 roughly 100 years ago. The same parcel today would cost $20 million — a 1,000x increase that is not appreciation of land but destruction of the dollar. Working out the math, he arrives at roughly 7% annual currency depreciation over a century. He then broadens the frame: most currencies in Africa can't preserve wealth for even five years; hyperinflation has destroyed Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, and Venezuela. The average fiat currency collapses in about 29 years. Even the best-case scenario — holding US dollars — results in losing all your wealth over a lifetime. The audience member holding their $10,000 in savings at 4% interest is, unknowingly, losing net 5–6% every year.
An acre of Miami Beach waterfront that cost $10,000 a century ago costs $10–$20 million today. That 1,000x price increase is not appreciation — it's dollar debasement. The best currency in the world destroys 7% of your wealth every year.
An acre of waterfront land in Miami Beach that cost $10,000 roughly 100 years ago is now worth $10–$20 million, illustrating 1,000x dollar debasement.
The US dollar, the best fiat currency in history, has lost approximately 7% of its economic value every year for 100 years.
Saylor claims the average fiat currency collapses in about 29 years, and even the best (the US dollar) has a 35-year half-life.
