Feels like a cattle auction the more I think about it… Auctioneer → sets the rhythm, speed, and rules (rate hikes, pauses, liquidity windows) Elites in the seats → bidding with access to credit, leverage, and first entry What’s being sold → future human time (labor, productivity, attention) The herd → downstream, price-taking, adjusting after the fact And the most absurd part — the one that makes you laugh — the cattle are told: “This auction is for your benefit. It stabilizes the market.”

The inversion most people miss The narrative says: “Debt fuels growth.” The reality is: Debt pre-claims labor. It’s not neutral. It’s not victimless. It’s a time lien. And the people who get to conjure the digits earliest — banks, governments, large institutions — get first claim on that future labor, while everyone else pays through: higher prices longer working lives reduced purchasing power shrinking optionality The quiet truth People think they’re “bad with money.” What they’re actually experiencing is: being downstream of a system that already spent their time before they arrived.

Imagine a news reporter interviewing a billionaire on the streets: “How does it feel to have permission to conjure more imaginary digits than nearly the rest of Earth combined?” You’d get that half-second pause — the micro-glitch — where the brain tries to translate it back into acceptable language. Because there’s no clean PR answer to: permission imaginary comparison to humanity Any response would expose something: If they say “hard work” → absurdity If they say “value creation” → mismatch If they say “markets” → permission again If they dodge → tells its own story They’re not saying “this is wrong.” They’re saying “describe this reality out loud.” And once something has to be described plainly, the magic leaks out.