The biggest illusion in today’s economy is that “things are getting more expensive.”

They aren’t.
The dollar is getting weaker.

And that’s why the middle class keeps falling behind.

Since 2021, essential goods are up ~25–28% while wages lag closer to 20%. Layoffs are rising. Real purchasing power is quietly being taken from anyone who earns in dollars and saves in dollars.

Meanwhile, markets sit near all-time highs.

That’s not a contradiction — it’s the mechanism.

When the real economy breaks, policymakers always choose liquidity.
Cuts, QE, yen interventions… pick your central bank. They all defend the system the same way: by devaluing the currency that measures your labor.

And here’s the uncomfortable truth:

Assets aren’t “getting richer.”
Your money is getting poorer.

The wealthy pull ahead because they already own scarce assets: equity, real estate, gold, Bitcoin. When a currency weakens, anything priced in that currency rises — not because fundamentals changed, but because the measuring stick shrank.

This is the K-shaped outcome we’re living through:

• Wage earners lose purchasing power
• Asset owners compound it

The escape isn’t political.
It’s positional.

If you hold only dollars, you absorb all the debasement.
If you hold assets, you reverse it.

That’s why I keep the majority of my net worth in assets that benefit from structural currency debasement — especially those with fixed or provably scarce supply.

Bitcoin exists for this exact environment.
It’s not a bet on chaos; it’s an exit from a system that taxes savers through dilution.

Don’t just watch the system decay from the outside.
Own a piece of the parallel one.