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@matteopelleg You are misunderstanding the 3rd party aspect. Eg. In the banking system value is transferred fm a 3rd party to another 3rd party (bank to bank). In Bitcoin the value is transferred directly peer to peer. The miners and nodes are only securing and validating the network
Elon, WAKE UP: Fiat Money Is Starving the Future
Elon’s right: Collapsing birth rates are a crisis. But Elon is missing the root.
Fiat money is killing families.
You want babies? Fix the money. Don't believe me? Keep reading.
Civilizations die not with a bang but with a whimper, the quiet surrender of empty cribs, hollowed-out homes, and a generation that stopped believing in tomorrow. We are living through that surrender. The collapse is not coming. It is here.
Fiat money is the poison. When central banks conjure currency from nothing, they steal time. Your labor, your savings, your future, all diluted. The middle class once thrived on single incomes. Now, two working parents scrape to afford rent, groceries, and maybe one child. The math is merciless. Fiat inflates prices, shrinks paychecks, and forces parents into a brutal choice: *Work or nurture*. You cannot do both. So we stop nurturing.
This is not accidental. A system built on perpetual debt needs perpetual workers. More taxpayers, more consumers, more cogs. But when the cost of raising children outpaces wages, the machine starves. We’ve traded cradles for cubicles.
Nihilism is the symptom. You watch billionaires launch themselves into space while you struggle to pay rent. It’s soul-crushing. And when hope dies, so does the desire to bring new life into a world that feels rigged.
This isn’t abstract philosophy; it’s reality. In China, the “lying flat” movement has young people opting out of the rat race altogether. In the West, the “childfree” lifestyle is celebrated as a form of liberation. But let’s call it what it is: surrender. When you believe the game is unwinnable, you stop playing. And in this case, the game is the continuation of human civilization.
Fiat money fuels this despair. It widens the gap between the haves and the have-nots, concentrating wealth in the hands of a few while the rest scramble for crumbs. When people lose faith in the future, they stop investing in it, literally and figuratively. Children are the ultimate investment in tomorrow. Without them, we’re cashing out on humanity itself.
Then there are the culture wars. You’ve seen them: endless debates over gender ideology, identity politics, and the celebration of lifestyles that prioritize individualism over family. These movements don’t emerge in a vacuum. They’re funded by NGOs, think tanks, and foundations that thrive on the fiat system. Printed money flows into causes that undermine our traditional family structure.
Take a step back, and it makes sense. A system that prioritizes short-term consumption over long-term growth doesn’t need families. It needs workers, consumers, and taxpayers, preferably without the “burden” of dependents. So, we get a culture that glorifies the childless life, where pets replace kids, and “freedom” means never having to sacrifice for the next generation.
This isn’t a conspiracy; it’s incentives. Fiat money creates a world where immediate gratification trumps legacy. And legacy is built through children, through passing on values, knowledge, and hope. Without that, we’re just a generation of narcissists, tweeting our way to extinction.
You might be thinking, “Wait, what about Africa and India? They’re having plenty of kids.” True, for now. But this misses the point. If you live in a country with collapsing birth rates, the fertility of distant nations doesn’t save your society from demographic implosion. Japan isn’t going to be rescued by Nigeria’s birth rate. Italy’s pension system won’t be propped up by India’s population boom.
Moreover, these countries are just one generation behind. As they modernize, adopt fiat-based economies, and integrate into the global financial system, they’ll face the same pressures. Look at South Korea: in the span of a few decades, it went from poverty to prosperity—and now has one of the lowest birth rates on the planet. The pattern is clear: fiat money and modernity are fertility killers.
We are animals in a trap, chewing off our own limbs to survive. The trap is fiat. The limb is our children.
This is not a demographic shift. It is civilizational suicide. When a people lose the will to endure, to sacrifice, to hope, to create, they are already ghosts.
The fix is not more subsidies or political slogans. It is killing the poison at the root: a money system that rewards the present at the expense of the future. Without honest money, there is no honest future. Without families, there is no society.
The clock ticks. The cribs gather dust. Choose: Fight for a system that values life, or fade into the quiet.
@RupertLowe10 Our monetary system leads to the cost of living rising well above wages for a long period of time thereby destroying society. Gradually then suddenly !
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