Crypto: Rising Against the Angels of Wealth Destruction.
We are prisoners of the Angels of Wealth Destruction: Debt, Inflation, Social Unrest, and War. Yet, as sovereign individuals, we hold the key to our liberation.
We often take our freedom for granted, but in truth, we are shackled by the psychosocial software that defines our era. We are bound by the family we were born into, the social group we belong to, and the nationality we carry.
Our behavior is largely dictated by the time we were born, the clothes we wear, the music we listen to, and our concept of beauty. Our family interactions shape our emotional responses, creating a prison of beliefs that can fill us with suffering or trap us in cycles of patterns, making us live the lives of others rather than our own individuality. Our sovereign self is subjugated to a set of beliefs and guilt that inhibit its true flourishing.
The Angels of Wealth Destruction: Debt, Inflation, Social Unrest, and War.
Then come the states, where we inherit another level of mental programming. Our future as citizens has been cannibalized by political leadership that has over-indebted itself, condemning us to the social prison of excessive taxes or high inflation rates.
Taxes and inflation erode trust in the state and its social contract, increasing the likelihood of street protests, or extremes like revolutions, civil wars, or coups. When tension becomes unsustainable, some leadership, in a desperate bid to avoid social disorder, turn their gaze to bold bets on war. Of all the Angels of Wealth Destruction, this is the greatest.
But is that our destiny? Are we really powerless to shape our future? No.
These Angels of Destruction press upon us with intensity: war in Ukraine, social unrest during the Arab “Spring”, extreme polarization in Europe and the US, extreme concentration of power in China, and the ongoing cold war between the US and China.
Where the pressure of the Angels of Destruction is so high, there is a natural reaction of survival. Migration seems like the only hope, escaping to countries with a better social contract. However, there is no place to escape; the pressure is over the entire system.
Real freedom lies beyond the hierarchies of the system, beyond nation-states. The only way to truly escape is to break the chains and beliefs of our social hierarchies and build new ones.
When English and Irish immigrants went to the US, they gained the right to own property, a powerful tool for individual freedom compared to monarchical systems where ordinary people had no right to land.
Today, land is no longer the most critical resource—our digital property is. However, this digital property is centralized in the giants of the internet: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Meta, or controlled by the State, as in the case of China. Fostering a decentralized internet is fundamental to rewiring a new system where we are not condemned by the Angels of Wealth Destruction.
Crypto is a way to protect our digital property, but the real change is not just about owning a crypto asset as the miracle redeemer of our generation; it’s about using this technology to create something new.
Let’s not just adopt crypto; let’s use it to build a new paradigm, a decentralized world where our digital sovereignty is secure, and our future is ours to shape. It’s time to rise against the Angels of Wealth Destruction and forge a path to true freedom.
Thank you,
Guillermo Valencia A
Macrowise Cofounder
Medellín, Colombia
June 2, 2024