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You work hard. You're an employee in a company with a 9-to-5 job, or maybe you're an entrepreneur working for yourself. Either way, you get up day after day with the same goal in mind: making money for yourself and your family.
Even though money doesn't make you happy, you know as well as anyone else that it does.
Like everyone else, you want power over your life. You want to be able to do what you want when you want. You would like to be free to live your life on your own terms
This is not surprising, as it is an aspiration that all humans should share.
The current system does not allow you to exercise your right to save the fruits of your labor
If you have ever taken the time to think about these aspirations, you must have asked yourself some questions about your chances of achieving them. After all, you earn money and you would like to be able to save it without having to invest it.
Unfortunately, the monetary inflation caused by a minority of people who are not representative of the people prevents you from doing so. The central bankers have been printing money out of thin air in phenomenal quantities since August 1971, and this has extraordinarily harmful effects on the lives of the vast majority of the earth's inhabitants.
Your purchasing power in US dollars is thus snowballing:
The purchasing power of $1,000 in 1971 is only $141 in 2021. Unfortunately, the trend is not likely to be reversed as 35% of all U.S. dollars currently in circulation have just been printed out of thin air in the last eighteen months.
You are in the middle of a circle of generalized impoverishment from which you cannot escape without a strong decision on your part.
To beat inflation, you need to invest
To beat the effects of monetary inflation over these 50 years, you would have to find an investment that would give you a +577% return to turn your $1,000 in 1971 into $6,773 in 2021. This is feasible, but not for everyone, since many people do not have access to investments that can beat the effects of monetary inflation.
If you refuse to invest the fruits of your labor, you will automatically lose money.
The other solution is to spend your money on useless things you don't need. The consumer society does everything to convince you to go in this direction. After all, the American dollar was designed to be spent, not saved
Your decision-making power is, therefore, more than limited, given the few relevant options you have: invest or spend. The third is to lose money.
Your money in the current system is yours only if you respect the arbitrary rules of the powerful people who run it
You are even deprived of power when it comes to using the fruits of your labor. Private banks can decide to censor your transactions for totally arbitrary reasons. They will tell you that it is their rules that you must follow. If you are not happy, you can leave.
These banks take advantage of your money to make more money but would like you to be the one to be grateful while they enslave you.
The banks will force you to justify transactions that are too large for them to handle in your interest. They may decide to confiscate your money for equally arbitrary reasons if governments ask them to.
In the end, it is your money that you put into the banking system, but it does not belong to you. It is reserved for you as long as you obey the arbitrary rules that keep changing. Because you have no guarantees with this system. Today's rules will not be tomorrow's rules. The rules are constantly being changed to favor the powerful at the head of the current monetary and financial system.
To break out of this vicious circle, you must use the best weapon currently available: Bitcoin.
Bitcoin gives you freedom as long as you take responsibility for the security of your money
Bitcoin has no leader and belongs to all its users. Everything is open and transparent in this monetary system that works for the good of its users. Bitcoin can give you the power and freedom to which we all aspire.
But it is not automatic. Buying Bitcoin is not enough. It's just the first step on a journey to financial freedom. Next, you'll need to make a conscious choice to take responsibility for the security of your wealth yourself.
That means following the 4 steps to self-sovereignty with Bitcoin
The last step is to own the private keys to your Bitcoin while running your full node on the Bitcoin network. This is essential to no longer depend on the truth from others. It allows you to take power over your money.
I am well aware that all this is a major paradigm shift from the current system where others take care of everything for you. Nevertheless, freedom over your life requires taking responsibility for yourself. This is a small price to pay in my opinion, and I think you will come to this conclusion sooner or later.
The day you are ready to take the power to live your life on your own terms, you will be glad to know that Bitcoin will be there to welcome you with open arms because it treats all its users the same regardless of when they decided to join this incredible monetary revolution.
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