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Production is dependent on demand of consumables in the U.S.
2 & 3 are the similar (the same?) point. The poorer one is, or the earlier in life they are (students) the greater % of their income is spent on consumables. I don't think money sloshing around financial services has as direct an impact on the things that most impact production.
Since when I first signed on, the token wasn't out yet, we had to negotiate a value for it. The value we agreed on ended up being much lower than the actual value when it was finally released. This created a strange situation. My monthly salary, which was at one point a combination of money (bitcoin) and some pie-in-the-sky uncertain token, simply became money + money since it was all liquid. I was therefore getting paid much more than expected, and more than another engineer of similar skill would require. This creates pressure on the founders to consider letting me go - even though I was a critical component of getting it to where it was. The psychology when the equity is not liquid seems very different. Even if a company's valuation starts to become much higher than expected, the fact that there still has to be an unlikely far-in-the-future liquidity event for any of it to be worth anything, significantly changes the dynamics. But when your engineer is simply getting paid quadruple market value in real liquid money, thoughts start to materialize that they can simply exchange me for 4 other engineers.