From bec64d319371f4c61e599fd120920993d73961f4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zachary Johnson Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2026 16:34:04 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] add slides option to site and price of tomorrow slide deck --- src/components/widgets/BookClubList.astro | 23 + src/data/bookclub.ts | 6 +- src/pages/bookclub/[session]/index.astro | 20 + src/slides/15.html | 731 ++++++++++++++++++++++ 4 files changed, 778 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) create mode 100644 src/pages/bookclub/[session]/index.astro create mode 100644 src/slides/15.html diff --git a/src/components/widgets/BookClubList.astro b/src/components/widgets/BookClubList.astro index bc9ea52..cf867a5 100644 --- a/src/components/widgets/BookClubList.astro +++ b/src/components/widgets/BookClubList.astro @@ -92,6 +92,9 @@ const booksWithFormattedDates = allBooks.map(book => ({ + + Slides + @@ -137,6 +140,17 @@ const booksWithFormattedDates = allBooks.map(book => ({ + + {book.slides && ( + + + View + + )} + ))} @@ -191,6 +205,15 @@ const booksWithFormattedDates = allBooks.map(book => ({ TBD )} + {book.slides && ( + + + View Slides + + )} diff --git a/src/data/bookclub.ts b/src/data/bookclub.ts index 4aa66ff..6c443f2 100644 --- a/src/data/bookclub.ts +++ b/src/data/bookclub.ts @@ -4,6 +4,7 @@ export interface BookClubBook { link: string; date: string | null; image: string; + slides?: string; } export const bookClubBooks: BookClubBook[] = [ @@ -221,8 +222,9 @@ export const bookClubBooks: BookClubBook[] = [ title: "Price of Tomorrow", author: "Jeff Booth", link: "https://a.co/d/4qW589F", - date: null, - image: "~/assets/images/books/priceoftomorrow.jpg" + date: "2026-03-19", + image: "~/assets/images/books/priceoftomorrow.jpg", + slides: '15', }, { title: "The Deficit Myth", diff --git a/src/pages/bookclub/[session]/index.astro b/src/pages/bookclub/[session]/index.astro new file mode 100644 index 0000000..fc41059 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/pages/bookclub/[session]/index.astro @@ -0,0 +1,20 @@ +--- +import { readFileSync } from 'node:fs'; +import { join } from 'node:path'; + +export async function getStaticPaths() { + const { readdirSync } = await import('node:fs'); + const slidesDir = join(process.cwd(), 'src', 'slides'); + return readdirSync(slidesDir) + .filter((f: string) => f.endsWith('.html')) + .map((f: string) => ({ params: { session: f.replace('.html', '') } })); +} + +const { session } = Astro.params; +const slidesPath = join(process.cwd(), 'src', 'slides', `${session}.html`); +const html = readFileSync(slidesPath, 'utf-8'); + +return new Response(html, { + headers: { 'Content-Type': 'text/html; charset=utf-8' }, +}); +--- diff --git a/src/slides/15.html b/src/slides/15.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1dfda53 --- /dev/null +++ b/src/slides/15.html @@ -0,0 +1,731 @@ + + + + + +The Price of Tomorrow – Bitcoin District Book Club + + + + +
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Bitcoin District  ·  Book Club
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The Price of Tomorrow

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Jeff Booth

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Canadian entrepreneur. Founded and led BuildDirect — a tech platform that used software to drive down the cost of building materials, eliminating layers of middlemen in the process.

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His thesis came from lived experience: his own company was deflationary by design, yet inflation kept eroding the world around it. The Price of Tomorrow is his attempt to explain why, and what comes next.

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Icebreaker: Technology Making Things Cheaper

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+ Booth opens the book with a striking observation about Moore's Law: the cost per + megabyte of storage fell from roughly $1 million in 1967 to just 2 cents by the + time he was writing — a collapse in price of nearly ten billion times. This is + technology doing what it always does — driving prices toward zero. +

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Think of a product or service that has gotten dramatically cheaper or better + in your lifetime purely because of technology. How much would it cost today + if technology hadn't touched it — and who would own it?

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The Great Conflict: Deflationary Tech vs. Inflationary Money

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+ Booth's central argument is a collision between two forces: technology naturally + drives prices down (deflation), while central banks target 2% inflation every + year — essentially cancelling out the gains that technology would have given us + for free. +

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If technology is silently giving you more purchasing power every year, + and inflation is silently taking it back — who actually captures the + productivity gains? Is inflation the largest hidden tax most people + don't know they're paying?

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The Debt Trap: Borrowing from Tomorrow

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+ The "price of tomorrow" is what we pay by borrowing against future prosperity + today. Since 2000, global debt has ballooned from $62 trillion to over + $247 trillion — yet that $185 trillion in new debt bought only $46 trillion + of real economic growth. If you paid it back at $1,000 per second, + it would take nearly 8,000 years. +

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Booth says we have no painless exit from this debt trap — either we inflate + it away (destroying savings) or we face a deflationary collapse. + Is Bitcoin a third option, or does adopting a Bitcoin standard just + make the reckoning arrive sooner?

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AI, Automation, and the Ownership Problem

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+ Booth asks whether AI will eliminate far more jobs than it creates — and unlike + past industrial revolutions, cognitive work may not be safe: "If every job + is a function of our intelligence, as computers beat us at intelligence, + how could any job be safe?" If AI is owned by corporations or governments, + the gains accrue to very few. +

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If AI compresses wages toward zero for most cognitive work, + who owns the AI becomes the defining question of our era. + Does holding Bitcoin — a form of capital with a fixed supply — offer + ordinary people a seat at the table in an AI-driven economy?

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Bitcoin: Money Aligned with Technology

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+ Booth frames Bitcoin as "an attempt at a solution" — a system with a + fixed supply of 21 million coins that cannot be manipulated by governments. + In a deflationary world, fixed-supply money means prices fall and purchasing + power rises: you keep the gains from technology instead of watching + them confiscated by inflation. +

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Booth says under a Bitcoin standard, your savings would naturally + appreciate as technology improves — no investing required, + just holding. Would this change how people think about work, + risk, and time? Or does falling prices create their own trap + (why spend today what will be worth more tomorrow)?

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Cooperation vs. Competition in a World of Abundance

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+ Booth closes the book with a game-theory argument: currency debasement is a + prisoner's dilemma — each nation defects for short-term gain, triggering + retaliation, until everyone loses. In a world of genuine technological abundance, + this zero-sum thinking is irrational and destructive. +

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Booth argues a Bitcoin standard would remove the temptation to defect — + you can't print your way to advantage, so nations must compete by + actually creating value. Is this optimistic or naive? + Can nation-states genuinely choose cooperation, + or does power always revert to zero-sum competition?

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According to Booth, what does technology always do to prices over time?

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Drives them down — technology is inherently deflationary
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*Introduction: The End of Inflation
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Since 2000, global debt grew from $62 trillion to over $247 trillion. According to Booth, how much new debt was created to achieve just $46 trillion of economic growth?

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Approximately $185 trillion of new debt
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*Introduction: The End of Inflation (Institute of International Finance, Q3 2018)
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What inflation target do most central banks around the world aim for each year?

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2%
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*Introduction: The End of Inflation
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Moore's Law is used by Booth as a key example of technological deflation. What does Moore's Law describe?

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The number of transistors on a circuit board doubles approximately every two years. Moore's original 1965 prediction was every year; he later revised it to every two years. In practice, the doubling has occurred approximately every eighteen months.
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*Chapter 4 – The Technology Boom
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What specific technology does Booth identify as the primary driver of the next wave of deflationary disruption?

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Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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*Chapter 6 – The Future of Intelligence
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In Chapter 4, Booth illustrates Moore's Law with a storage cost example. One megabyte of storage cost roughly $1 million in 1967. What had it fallen to by the time he was writing the book?

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About 2 cents — a price collapse of nearly ten billion times
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*Chapter 4 – The Technology Boom
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Booth argues that in the current system, the gains from AI and automation flow primarily to whom?

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Those who own the technology and assets — "If AI is owned by corporations or governments, then the benefits will accrue to very few"
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*Chapter 7 – The Future of Work
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What does Booth say happens to debt in a deflationary environment?

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It becomes harder to repay — the real value of debt increases as prices fall, making it potentially unpayable
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*Chapter 1 – Printing Money / Introduction
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In Chapter 9, Booth uses a concept from game theory to argue that currency debasement is self-defeating. What is this concept called?

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The prisoner's dilemma — nations that defect (debase their currency) gain short-term advantage but trigger retaliation, leaving everyone worse off than if they had cooperated
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*Chapter 9 – Can We Cooperate?
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In what year was The Price of Tomorrow published?

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2020
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*Published January 14, 2020
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