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π Title: I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
ποΈ Summary: The title of Harlan Ellisonβs dystopian story is no longer confined to science fictionβit has become the condition of the modern debtor. Our mouths are silent, yet the financial system makes us scream through balance sheets, interest rates, and invisible extractions of value.
The International Monetary Fund speaks of βfinancial stabilityβ while entire nations are bound in cycles of debt restructuring and conditional austerity. The Federal Reserve raises rates in the name of price stability, while households bleed under mortgages and credit card balances that compound faster than wages can follow. Meanwhile, Tetherβs USDT, backed by U.S. Treasury bills, quietly grows into a shadow banking giant, becoming one of the largest holders of short-term U.S. debtβan architecture that secures the empire of liquidity, yet tightens the net around savers worldwide.
I want to scream at the illusion of choice: digital money issued by central banks on one side, private stablecoins on the other, both tethered to sovereign debt rather than human freedom. The algorithms that clear our payments do not hear us; they only reconcile ledgers. The inflation that eats our labor is not debated in words, but imposed in the silent erosion of purchasing power.
I have no mouth, only an account number. No scream, only the frictionless extraction of value. And yet the silence is not passiveβit is engineered. The mouth has been erased, replaced by PIN codes and digital wallets, by the automation of obedience.
In Ellisonβs tale, AM tortures humanity without end, a machine fueled by hatred. Our machine does not hateβit simply calculates. But its indifference is no less terrifying. To it, we are not voices. We are liquidity.
I have no mouth, and I must pay.
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