Scarcity Is Dead. Long Live Scarcity. — money as a marriage of two scarcities, and what happens when both sides are detonated at once. 稀缺死了，稀缺万岁——钱是两个稀缺的婚约；而这一代人眼前，婚约的两端被同时引爆。
This is not a book of economics. Money, peeled to its last layer, is a marriage of two scarcities — the world's and the symbol's. For five thousand years, all of monetary history has been the upkeep of that marriage.这不是一本经济学著作。把钱一层层剥到最后，剩下的是一纸婚约——世界的稀缺与符号的稀缺彼此忠诚。五千年货币史，都是这段婚姻的维持史。
In our generation both ends were detonated at once: an anonymous author made symbolic scarcity mathematically absolute, while silicon intelligence pushed the world's scarcity toward abundance. Volume I answers WHY the old covenant must dissolve; Volume II, WHAT the new one is; Volume III, HOW to seal it.而这一代人眼前，婚约两端被同时引爆：一个匿名者把符号的稀缺做到数学般的绝对，硅基智能把世界的稀缺推向丰裕。卷一回答 WHY——旧婚约为什么必然解体；卷二回答 WHAT——新婚约是什么；卷三回答 HOW——如何缔结它。