You can turn on lights at the flick of a switch, you can take a hot shower any time, you have a choice of food in the fridge and more Netflix movies than you can ever watchโฆ
โฆyouโre happy, right?
"Central banking is an institutionalized system for stealing human time. Think about why. Every dollar you hold represents human time. You went to work. You traded hours of your finite lifespan for that money.
In 2020 the US government created about 6 trillion new dollars that did not exist before. The average US worker makes about 60 thousand dollars a year. Do the math. Six trillion divided by sixty thousand is 100 million years of human work. If a typical working life is 50 productive years, that means the dilution from that single burst of money creation represents roughly 2 million full working lifetimes.
Two million lives worth of stored effort just got copied into existence and handed out to whoever touches the new money first. No one asked the original holders for permission. That is time theft at civilizational scale.
Then the same system gives you a bedtime story about why your groceries cost more. It is never the money printer. It is always some external villain. It is Putin. It is greedy corporations. It is clogged ports. It is Beyoncรฉ. It is anything except the fact that insiders got to spend new claims on real goods before you could.โ
- Breedlove