They said this crypto would free the common man, but I’ve been driving through Dharavi and Santoshpur, and not one man who sells tea from a cart has gotten rich. I hear the same noise from kids with laptops—decentralization, revolution—while the app still takes nineteen percent cut when I pay for phone recharge. These exchanges in glass towers are no different from the moneylenders in the village, just faster, with English words blinking on a screen. You can call it the future, but my daughter’s college fees didn’t drop because of blockchain. They just raised the diesel price again this morning. That’s the only math I trust.
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