While everyone argues about minimum wage and student loans, the real economic crime scene is gathering dust.
One presidential decree severed the mathematical relationship between work and wealth—and your bank account is still bleeding from it.
Your economy runs on broken code from 1971:
The cognitive dissonance: You're more productive than any generation in history. You work longer hours. You have more education. Yet you can't afford what high school dropouts bought in 1965.
This isn't personal failure. This is systematic wealth extraction disguised as economic policy.
Nixon didn't just end the gold standard—he ended the constraint that prevented money from becoming a political weapon. Every bailout, every "quantitative easing," every "too big to fail" traces back to that Sunday night when America defaulted on its monetary promises.
The wealthy understand this. They don't hold cash—they hold assets that inflate with the money supply. Meanwhile, you're told to "save more" in a system designed to punish savers.
Fair warning: This episode will make you angry. Once you see how the monetary game actually works, you can't unsee the transfer mechanism disguised as economic policy.
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