Look, I teach teenagers and I see them glued to their phones talking about Bitcoin like it's going to save them, and then I watch them try to buy lunch with their eyes because none of them carry real money anymore. But here's what they don't understand — and what the crypto evangelists don't want to admit — most of Brazil still runs on cash. My mother, my neighbors in the periphery, the woman who sells água de coco on my corner, they all deal in real bills. Crypto is not a revolution for them; it's a luxury they cannot afford and a solution to a problem they don't have. The real question is not whether blockchain will replace the real, it's why we keep pretending that a teacher or a street vendor needs to understand cryptocurrency when we cannot guarantee they understand where their next meal is coming from. I'm not against technology, God knows I'm not — I'm against the myth that it saves anyone but the people who already have something to save.
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