Spend zero dollars. Only give your money to the Pennsylvania Amish to buy meat directly from the farmer, and hoard every single dollar you have in bitcoin. Imagine you’re like a video game character in Skyrim when you first start the game, and you’re naked, and you have to start building your character from the ground up. Wouldn’t you want to get the dragon armor as soon as possible?
If the game is broken, wouldn’t you look for the exploit, like crafting shitty iron daggers, and selling them back to the blacksmith over and over again to increase your smithing?
Or even better, climbing the wall of white run, glitching out of the map, and going under the matrix pattern, stealing all the items and gold from the shop owner’s chest?