# Beneath the concrete

*"Not all money is free"*

By [0xself](https://paragraph.com/@0xself) · 2026-06-28

bitcoin, monetary, assets, etf, etfs, philosophic, philosophy, financialphilosophy, financialsystem, thoughtdump

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Sometimes we tend to not think about what's right in front of us. Not because of ignorance, stigma, withheld information, not because it's unknown. We have heard the word, know how to look it up, we have something in mind, about its price, back then, when we didn't know. We don't regret, we're not caught up, we never were. It's a quiet revolution, nobody joins in.

We're told about new ways our system will work, the stuff that just traces another thing, to buy this and that, not the real thing. Almost nothing at all.

We're being held back, without power or violence involved. We chose this ourselves, nobody told us to. It's easy, just like that, the game could've changed, isn't that what we wanted all along?

It's in my hand, choose what I want, I'm caught up in the waves beneath the concrete.

Money is freedom, Bitcoin is the currency of it.

Not all money is free.

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*Originally published on [0xself](https://paragraph.com/@0xself/beneath-the-concrete)*