Aight, lemme take you back real quick.

It’s 1933. The Great Depression got everyone wrecked, people holding onto whatever value they got left. Then outta nowhere, the U.S. government drops Executive Order 6102—making it illegal for citizens to own gold. Think about that. You work, you save, you stack—then some suit says, “Nah, that’s ours now,” and forces you to trade it in for paper dollars that they can inflate at will. One day, your gold is real money. Next day, it’s contraband.

Fast forward to now, and the playbook ain’t changed—just the methods. They don’t need to kick in your door to take your wealth. They just turn off your access.

Look at Kanye. Billionaire one day, persona non grata the next. Whether you agree with him or not, dude had Yeezy selling like crazy, millions in the bank, and a direct line to his fans. Then Adidas dropped him, banks shut down his accounts, and Shopify straight up nuked his online store. One decision, and poof—business gone. They didn’t need to “beat the market” or “compete.” They just cut him off at the knees.

Now ask yourself—if they can do that to a billionaire, what do you think they can do to you?

The Illusion of Ownership

We got told the internet would make us free. That crypto would break the chains. That AI would make us gods. But what did we actually get? An internet where a handful of corps own the infrastructure, a crypto industry where off-ramps are gatekept harder than the Vatican archives, and an AI revolution where you can “use” the tech, but they run the servers.

Decentralization? Cool story, bro. If your validator nodes need AWS, is it really decentralized? If your stablecoin relies on banks that can freeze funds, is it really censorship-resistant? If your AI projects need API keys from OpenAI, who really owns the intelligence? Web2 was a farm, Web3 is looking kinda like a gated community, and AI? Bruh, that’s just another layer of rent-seeking wrapped in hype.

You’re only free until you’re a problem. Think you own your online identity? One email ban and you’re ghosted from your entire digital life. Think you own your work? One copyright claim and your income is zeroed. You could be making six figures on YouTube, but if Susan 2.0 don’t like your content, you’re one strike away from working at McDonald’s.

Access as a Weapon

They dangle “opportunity” like it’s fair game, but the second you stop playing their script, the leash tightens. You wanna launch a business? Better play nice with the payment processors. Wanna reach an audience? Pray to the algo gods. Wanna trade crypto? Hope your country ain’t flagged by some boomer in a suit.

They want you needing their servers, their models, their cloud credits—because the moment you start running your own stack, you’re dangerous. They don’t actually fear your ideas—they fear you not needing them. That’s why self-hosting is discouraged, why privacy is demonized, why every new tech trend somehow circles back to subscription models, where you keep paying and they keep holding the keys.

Ever notice how the most powerful people don’t use the same tools they sell you? The elites don’t store their money in banks—they hold land, art, private assets. They don’t rely on Big Tech for their security—they got custom stacks, private networks, hardware wallets locked in offshore bunkers. They know the game ain’t about what you have—it’s about what you control.

The Only Way Out

So what’s the move? Get sovereign. Own your keys, your code, your connections. Build where they can’t deplatform you. Use the tools, don’t let the tools use you. Host your own sites, run your own nodes, back up your own data. If your life depends on a third party, that ain’t freedom—that’s a loan.

They gonna keep selling you convenience at the cost of control. They gonna keep pushing AI, SaaS, Web3, but always with a backdoor. You can either stay plugged into the matrix or start stacking real sovereignty. Because at the end of the day, if your access can be taken away, was it ever really yours?

Stay degen, stay free.
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