You Never Owned Your Money

Let’s get something straight. If your freedom depends on how much money you have, you are not free. You are rented.

You’re not losing control of your money because of programmable digital currencies. That control was never yours to begin with. You just didn’t notice, because the illusion was profitable. For a while.

Look closer. The dollars in your account are promises made by institutions you didn’t elect, backed by debts you didn’t sign for, and created by keystrokes you’ll never see. You call it “your” money, but try withdrawing ten grand in cash without triggering suspicion. Try using it anonymously at scale. Try escaping inflation, taxation, regulation, or seizure. Try not playing the game and still surviving.

Capitalism told you that the market was free. That’s some cute bullshit. The market is a puppet show where the puppeteers own the stage, the string, and the audience. And you, dear entrepreneur, are still asking for permission to spend what’s already yours. Why do you still kneel? Did you lose your spine, or did you sell it?

Ownership in this system is just a self-indulged feeling, not a fact. The only real asset you ever had was your belief in the system. And now, hopefully, that belief is starting to crack.

Central Bank Digital Currencies aren’t the start of your financial captivity. They’re just the moment you’re forced to acknowledge it. Like Neo waking up in the Matrix, covered in goo, tubes in his spine. Not because he just got captured, but because he finally opened his eyes.

So here’s the real threat. Not that they’ll take your freedom. But that they never needed to.

You gave it away. One transaction at a time.

— Wout