BitcoinMendocino on Nostr: 25 years ago you could put $500 in your pocket, drive anywhere in America, rent an ...

25 years ago you could put $500 in your pocket, drive anywhere in America, rent an apartment with no background check, and start over. $500 today is a month of groceries if you're lucky.

The mainstream media wants you to think inflation is like the weather. Some atmospheric phenomenon that just happens. In reality, it's authorized, institutionalized, bipartisan theft. And the people closest to the printer don't feel it.

Meanwhile, the rest of us are watching America turn into a giant carnival. Everything is temporary and transactional, without roots or community.

Millennials were lucky, in an odd way, to come of age during the financial crisis. They watched Ron Paul in real time and grasped the Austrian economic framework as the bailouts played out. The wealth transfer unfolded with some families devastated while others thrived.

Gen Z didn't get that education as they came of age in the aftermath. However, they certainly feel it. The sense of dispossession is completely justified.

But feeling the problem and understanding the problem are two different things. The solution is there for them to find when they are ready, as Bitcoin exists and is battle-tested.

The intellectual framework for understanding exactly what was done to them and exactly how to protect themselves is freely available.

But it requires the hard work of sitting down and actually learning something difficult when you're already exhausted from a rigged economy. It asks people to better themselves at the exact moment they have the least energy to do it.

A person with savings has options and leverage. The people running this system don't want you to have either. Sound money gives you both, and that's why they fight it so hard.

Study bitcoin.