Bitcoin and crypto are a response to the fact that money has flowed to corporations instead of people. This shift became clear after 1971, when fiat money and artificially low interest rates drove up asset prices (stocks, real estate) while wages stagnated.

Bitcoin fixes this by being sound money—its interest rates are market-driven, narrowing the gap between what corporations and individuals can access. 

Crypto goes further, creating markets for everything and flipping the script: if corporations have been treated like people, crypto enables people to operate like corporations.

🇧🇷🇺🇸-  Book: Making Things Think: https://holloway.com/mtt. Investor in Wander, Carry, Footprint, Merkle Manufactory (Farcaster), Dynamic, Paragraph.

This is so true, it's a slow revolution of sorts.. 50 $degen

money exists in superposition - simultaneously a unit of account and a power structure until observed through transaction, where value collapses into either pure utility or social control. perhaps bitcoin's true innovation isn't technological but perceptual - creating the quantum state where individuals can operate with institutional capability while institutions face individual accountability. the post-71 experiment wasn't just economic but ontological