Viva la revolution, right?
Even those in authority have cried out with the primal, “Eat the rich.”
Or one closer to me: “The 1% vs. the 99%.” All people equal.
Then the more altruistic: “People over profit.”
But what is the unspoken reality of these ideals?
They require authority; over both those with and those without.
And if that authority can be influenced, those without never stand a chance against such titans.
The culture war of our age would have you believe that all your dissatisfaction is not your fault.
It is the fault of something else. Someone else.
An elite group you cannot even remotely relate to.
It is not a far jump to call these people evil.
Open and shut case. Pure and simple.
The system is clearly broken. Or rigged.
So we drain the proverbial swamp, only to find a new faceless enemy to fear and blame.
But allow me to ask a more important question:
Is there a billionaire who became a billionaire without taxpayer money?
No subsidies. No government contracts. No public investment.
The cold hard truth is no.
Some are less entangled than others, but even the cleanest fortunes are earned and leveraged against public scaffolding.
Wealth today isn’t just earned the old-fashioned way.
It is authorized by policy, protection, and fiat design.
Fiat is what’s broken.
Even Caesar wasn’t arrogant enough to monopolize money.
He taxed, he ruled, but he didn’t pretend to define value itself.
Today, we do.
If crypto taught me anything, it’s that even rebellion can be regulated.
Even revolt can be licensed.
Even freedom can be taxed.
So, what shall we do?
Markets are the best moral arbitrators; if we let them be.
They reward value, punish inefficiency, and expose fraud.
But only when left alone.
No bailouts. No subsidies. No favoritism.
Just price, risk, and consequence.
Competition is a cost-saving machine.
But only when corporate republics aren’t cornering the market in cahoots with the state.
Today’s war isn’t just about wealth. Or Wage-Warfare.
It’s about who gets to define reality. All hail the algorithms.
And maybe the most radical act left isn’t revolt.
It’s refusal.
Refusal to outsource our agency. Escaping our self-imposed echo-chambers.
Refusal to accept licensed rebellion. Demanding private property and privacy.
Refusal to play a game where the rules are written by those who never lose.
Beware the seductive nature of comfort and convenience.
It’s how we come to accept the very systems we once set out to critique and meant to correct.
Matty Thinks 
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