{"id":35595,"date":"2025-08-08T19:13:49","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/?p=35595"},"modified":"2025-08-08T15:14:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T19:14:19","slug":"only-owners-and-the-owned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.duck9.com\/blog\/only-owners-and-the-owned\/","title":{"rendered":"Only owners and the owned"},"content":{"rendered":"
The fiat monetary system, unbacked by physical assets since 71
\nWtf 1971\u2026 presidents Nixon ended dollar-gold convertibility, systematically transfers wealth from wage earners to asset holders, a claim supported by a 2021 Federal Reserve study showing the top 1% held 32.3% of U.S. wealth while wage growth lagged productivity by 70% since 1979.
\nBitcoin is a countermeasure due to its fixed 21 million coin cap and decentralized nature, contrasting with fiat’s inflation\u2014evidenced by a 2023 IMF report noting global inflation averaged 7.6% post-COVID, eroding purchasing power\u2014offering a potential escape from what he calls “digital feudalism,” a concept gaining traction in economic critiques like Yanis Varoufakis’ 2023 book “Technofeudalism.”
\nThis wordpress blog post on duck9 challenges the Federal Reserve’s narrative of “stable prices,” citing its $3 trillion asset purchases during 2020-2021 to bail out institutions, while workers received minimal stimulus, aligning with data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics showing real wages dropped 2.4% in 2021 despite record productivity.<\/p>\n

The lower class is being engineered into serfdom.
\nLet me explain like your life depends on it (because it does).
\nFor 50 years, wages have stagnated while productivity soared.
\nWhere did the surplus go?
\nTo capital holders. To asset owners.
\nTo those closest to the money printer.
\nThis is structural. You have to understand that the fiat system is a time-theft machine.
\nIt devalues the labor of the many to enrich the asset portfolios of the few.
\nInflation IS the monetary policy by design… the regressive tax on the poor who hold dollars, for the benefit of the rich who hold debt and equity.
\nWhen food prices rise 40% but your wage rises 3%, that\u2019s not “cost of living.”
\nThat\u2019s the COST of NOT OWNING ASSETS.
\nWhen the Fed injects trillions to prop up failed institutions but gives you a $600 stimmy, they\u2019re not “rescuing the economy.”
\nThey\u2019re rebalancing power upward… AGAIN.
\nBitcoin is your only way out of this.
\nNot stocks. Not gold. Not bonds.
\nNot a second job in the gig economy death spiral.
\nBitcoin is your peaceful exit.
\nIt\u2019s the only monetary asset with:
\n\u2022 Absolute scarcity \u2022 Decentralized issuance \u2022 Immunity to political capture \u2022 Global portability \u2022 Time-insensitive purchasing power
\nIt\u2019s the first system of monetary self-defense.
\nWhen you buy Bitcoin, you are opting out of systemic theft.
\nYou are transferring your time and labor into an incorruptible store of value.
\nYou are front-running inflation rather than being harvested by it.
\nUnderstand this:
\nFiat serfdom doesn\u2019t look like shackles.
\nIt looks like working 60 hours and still overdrafting.
\nIt looks like rents rising 15% while your paycheck stays flat.
\nIt looks like getting poorer every time the Fed \u201cstimulates.\u201d
\nBitcoin is the first asset in history that allows the lower class to accumulate capital before Wall Street dilutes it.
\nIt flips the script.
\nFor once, the worker can front-run the banker.
\nThe only thing standing between you and permanent digital feudalism is the orange pill.
\nThis is the civil rights movement for your purchasing power.
\nAdopt Bitcoin or remain a slave to money that bleeds you dry.
\nThere is no middle class in fiat\u2019s final act.
\nOnly owners and the owned.
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