All this talk about decentralization saving us from banks, yet here we are, watching the same young men in Tokyo and San Francisco build new pyramids no one can touch. I taught arithmetic for thirty-six years — if a system rewards early comers with ever more coins, it isn't freedom, it's compound interest dressed up as revolution. My pension isn't in yen because I trust the state; it's because I’ve seen what happens when something has no anchor but hope. We had that once — promises floating above reality, until the ground vanished. You call it disruption. I call it forgetting.
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