Krumm, CPA

Memento Mori

[Krumm, CPA @KrummDumm]

@_The_Prophet__

[0xMarioNawfal @RoundtableSpace]

Everybody was hoping for a dip to buy and now it’s here and they’re scared to press the green button

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@Kalshi These are the days when you press Buy

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@_The_Prophet__

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@TheDividendDog He’s not wrong

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The American middle-class bargain has structurally broken.

For decades, the deal was simple: trade labor for wages, wages for savings, savings for assets, assets for security.

That ladder still exists on paper, but the rungs are farther apart every year.

Wages no longer reliably convert into ownership fast enough to keep up with asset inflation.

So people keep working, output keeps rising, markets keep climbing, and the worker’s share of the machine keeps shrinking.

That is the real fracture.

The system is increasingly organized around ownership of claims, not contribution of labor. Equity claims, land claims, platform claims, IP claims, data claims, financial claims, energy claims, Bitcoin claims, AI infrastructure claims. The person with the claim compounds. The person with only wages rents their own life back from the people holding the claims.

This is why everything feels fake to normal people.

GDP can rise while life feels worse.

Stocks can hit highs while workers feel poorer.

Companies can report productivity gains while employees feel disposable.

AI can increase output while labor becomes less secure.

That contradiction is not psychological. It is structural. Output is being captured upstream by capital before it reaches wages.

What happens next is not “workers rise up” in some clean 20th-century way.

That frame is old. The next phase is uglier and more fragmented.

People stop believing in the work bargain.

They may still work, but the moral legitimacy of work collapses. “Get a good job” stops sounding like wisdom and starts sounding like propaganda. Credentials lose sacred status. Corporate loyalty dies. Institutional trust keeps bleeding. Young people become more speculative because speculation starts looking more rational than obedience.

Crypto, options, creator income, gray-market hustles, migration, tax arbitrage, and business ownership all become symptoms of the same thing: people trying to escape wage-only life.

The middle class then splits.

One group adapts by converting labor into ownership aggressively. They buy assets, build businesses, own equity, create intellectual property, learn capital allocation, accumulate scarce collateral, use AI as leverage, and treat wages as fuel rather than identity.

The other group remains trapped in wage dependence while costs, asset prices, and automation pressure keep moving against them. That group gets angrier, more politically volatile, more distrustful, and more vulnerable to movements promising revenge against elites, immigrants, corporations, landlords, banks, tech companies, or the state.

Politics becomes a fight over ownership access.

Housing policy, tariffs, taxation, stock buybacks, UBI, sovereign wealth funds, Bitcoin reserves, AI taxation, unionization, inheritance, capital gains, antitrust, public benefits, student debt, healthcare, and immigration all become disguised battles over the same question:

Who gets a claim on the machine?

AI accelerates the whole thing. If AI lets companies produce more with fewer workers, the labor share can fall further unless ownership broadens. The companies that own the models, chips, data centers, energy, distribution, and enterprise workflows capture the upside. Workers using AI may become more productive, but productivity alone does not guarantee bargaining power. If many people can use the same tools, the tool becomes table stakes. The owner of the scarce layer captures the surplus.

The blunt truth:

The wage-only life is becoming a slow liquidation.

People who understand this early will convert labor into ownership.

People who understand it late will wonder why working harder never caught up.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️High-paid workers are quietly admitting they do not trust the corporate ladder to protect their future.

The deeper move is converting temporary wage advantage into exit velocity.

A Meta engineer making 300K+ and living like a monk is using money as a weapon against dependency.

The salary is not the dream.

The salary is the extraction phase.

Spend almost nothing, accumulate assets, buy optionality, escape before the machine changes the terms.

That is the real psychology.

The old prestige path said: get the elite job, upgrade lifestyle, buy the apartment, lease the car, join the consumption class, signal success, keep climbing.

This new path says: take the elite paycheck, refuse the lifestyle trap, stack capital, minimize attachments, and get out before work absorbs your life.

That is a very different relationship to status.

The reason this is spreading among successful young tech workers is obvious: they can feel the bargain degrading. Layoffs. AI compression. corporate politics. burnout. housing insanity. dating dysfunction. meaning collapse. endless performance culture. rising cost of normal adulthood. The job pays well, but the job no longer feels like a stable identity. It feels like a temporary arbitrage window.

So the rational response is: monetize the window while it is open.

The bleak part is that even winners are building escape plans. When people making 300K feel the need to live without basic comforts to retire early, that says the culture has lost faith in continuity.

They are not planning lives inside the system.

They are planning exits from it.

[Krumm, CPA @KrummDumm]

Project Escape Velocity. More info coming soon.

[🇺🇸 The American Culturist 🇺🇸 @MericaCulture]

Rainy Day Nationalism 🇺🇸🦅🇺🇸

[Pax @1776pax]

100% Americanism for America’s 250th!

[Sarah Adams @sarahadams]

This is the same woman that said it was too political for me to brief NYPD on Al-Qaeda’s homeland plot literally just 12 months ago

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@alphafox “Look at me”

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@_The_Prophet__ This is why I went solar

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@_The_Prophet__ Sunday afternoon bangers

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️“They told you to trust the institutions?”

“Yes, Dave.”

“And the institutions missed the trade, missed the labor shock, missed the inflation regime, missed AI, and missed Bitcoin?”

“Yes, Dave.”

“And now everyone is asking why the old maps stopped working?”

“That’s right, Dave.”

“So what should people follow?”

“The signal, Dave.”

[Krumm, CPA @KrummDumm]

@TommiPedruzzi Claude

[Elisha Long @ElishaDLong]

Only way out of a funk is to become the funk

Retardmaxx

[Sarah Adams @sarahadams]

They Expect You to Be the Next Victim

Just a reminder that October 7th was over two years ago, and not only did the press downplay the massive atrocities committed against women and children, but governments including our own purposely buried critical facts from the public.

People were not told that Osama bin Laden’s own sons were involved in the planning for this massive coordinated attack, or that it was not just Hamas on the ground. Terrorists tied to Al-Qaeda, ISIS, and yes, even the Taliban of all things, were all there, too. The terrorists have evolved and we can’t even get the truth out to the public regarding this convergence.

I like to ask people, why do you think so many of the attackers during October 7th were on hooked Captagon? Because they got hooked on it sitting around in Syria waiting for the attacks to kick off. A simple fact no one seems to understand.

When you are lied to about the enemy, a large portion of the country is left mentally and physically unprepared. October 7th is not viewed by these terrorist groups as an isolated event. It was treated as a dress rehearsal for their upcoming attacks against the U.S. homeland.

That is not speculation, it is what Al-Qaeda senior trainers told terrorists while they were cross-training in Afghanistan for both October 7th and the U.S. homeland plot. If your math is good you are realizing some of these terrorists have been on U.S. soil since 2023. They think about the attack they are going to carry out every single second of every day. They walk by you on the street and the supermarket and fantasy about the harm coming to you.

Our government can stick its head in the sand all it wants and continue to make a mockery out of the counterterrorism fight, but refusing to educate yourself on the tactics used by the more than 8,000 terrorists involved in the October 7th attack does not just put you at a disadvantage, it puts the people you love at risk too.

Do not look away, especially when that is exactly what the terrorists and the useful idiots aiding and abetting them want. They expect you to stay distracted, silent, fearful, and willing to become the next victim.

Time to say: HELL NO!

[Krumm, CPA @KrummDumm]

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