BITCOIN AND THE PROSPERITY TRAP
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Prosperity. This is a word that sounds like a promise, like something obvious, almost like an acquired right for those born in developed countries over the past fifty years. You've never known war on your soil, you've never known ration coupons, you've never had to work a whole week to buy a simple piece of bread. Modern comforts, household appliances, the private car, consumer credit, overflowing supermarkets, and screens in every pocket have become self-evident. But this apparent prosperity, this abundance that surrounds you and that you believe to be eternal, is a carefully maintained illusion. It is not the fruit of true wealth, but of a system based on debt, money printing, and massive mind manipulation. It is a trap, and most people are trapped in it without even knowing it.
The trap is subtle because it's comfortable. Comfort is the best prison ever invented. If you want to dominate a people, there's no point beating them with a club. Give them screens, a stable salary, continuous consumption, and a mortgage to repay, and they'll keep quiet. Comfort makes you docile. It makes you believe you have something to lose, that stability is better than freedom, that your simple daily life is worth invisible servitude. This prosperity is built on shaky ground: it depends on a currency that dilutes every year, public debts that will never be repaid, distant wars financed by your taxes, and financial bubbles ready to burst.
All around you, the facade is meticulously maintained. Shopping malls remain lit, advertisements promise you can have it all, banks tell you your money is safe, and governments repeat that inflation is under control. But look closer. Your shopping cart empties a little more each year while the price at the checkout climbs constantly. Your savings in your savings account slowly melt away, eaten away by underestimated inflation. Your taxes rise while the public debt reaches new heights. Wages stagnate, but the cost of living explodes. Prosperity has become a shadow theater where everyone convinces themselves that everything is fine because the curtain hasn't yet fallen.
The system knows that most people won't question their comfort. Consumer credit is the invisible leash. You're offered today what you'll have to pay for tomorrow, and you think you're free because you own a car, a house, a state-of-the-art screen. But in reality, you own nothing: you're simply trapped in a contract, a debt, a monthly payment that you must honor or lose everything. The prosperity trap is all the more effective because it flatters your ego: you're made to believe that you're a homeowner, that you're rich, that you've succeeded, when you're just a cog in a system that runs thanks to your work, your taxes, and your consumption.
This trap is not new. Empires have always offered bread and games to keep the crowd docile. But today, the games are digital and infinite, the distractions follow one another in a continuous stream, and the bread is replaced by an artificial abundance financed by monstrous deficits. The modern empire does not build arenas to entertain you, it builds apps, series, social networks that suck up your attention and keep you away from the real questions. Why can the state print money without limit? Why are your taxes never enough? Why do you have to work more and more to buy less and less? Most people don't ask themselves these questions because they are too busy consuming what the system serves them on a platter.
And yet, there is a flaw. A crack in this fragile landscape. A way out. This way out is called Bitcoin. Not because it's a speculative asset that will make you rich quickly, but because it is the only incorruptible, scarce, and independent currency ever created in the digital age. Bitcoin is not backed by a political promise, it is not guaranteed by government debt, it is not manipulated by a central bank. It is mathematical, limited, and verifiable. It depends on no one and cannot be printed endlessly. It is everything that fiat currency is not.
Bitcoin offers you a different kind of prosperity. Not a facade of prosperity, not an artificial prosperity fueled by debt and empty promises, but a prosperity based on scarcity, sovereignty, and the long term. Accumulating satoshis means accumulating an asset that cannot be diluted. It means saying no to the trap of comfort imposed by the fiat system. It means regaining control of your time, because you no longer need to eternally chase a currency that loses its value. Bitcoin frees you from the vicious cycle where your salary devalues and your savings melt away. It gives you a stable, incorruptible horizon.
But this freedom comes at a price. It requires courage. It demands that you give up the comforting illusion of immediate comfort. It demands that you accept being seen as an outsider, a madman, a radical, because you refuse to play by the established rules. The prosperity trap is powerful because it exploits your fear of missing out, your fear of losing your comfort, your fear of being different. Bitcoin, by contrast, asks you to embrace that difference, to tolerate temporary discomfort, to look beyond the next monthly payment. It's a choice of discipline, not an easy one.
Those who will escape the trap will be those who understand that true prosperity is not measured by the size of your screen or the speed of your car, but by your independence, your ability to resist manipulation, and your power to say no. True prosperity is having a currency that no one can corrupt, being able to pass on its value intact to your children, knowing that your work today will not be devalued tomorrow by the printing of money. True prosperity is monetary sovereignty, and it is found nowhere else but in Bitcoin.
We live in a time when the trap is closing. Debts have become unsustainable, governments have no choice but to monetize their deficits by printing ever more, inflation is eating away at everything, and trust is eroding. The system will continue to offer you distractions, lull you to sleep with promises, and make you believe that everything is under control. But sooner or later, the facade will crack. And when that day comes, only those who understand the true nature of prosperity will be prepared. Bitcoin is the lifeline. It is the way out of the maze, the key that unlocks the door to reality amidst illusions.
The prosperity trap is comfortable, but it's a prison. Bitcoin is demanding, but it's freedom. The choice is yours.
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