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I spent 7+ years studying money full time to understand how the financial system was designed to keep you poor forever. Here are the top 10 brutal truths no one will ever teach you (THREAD): 1. Every dollar is your life compressed into a token.

This time tomorrow.

Your periodic reminder that you find yourself in the “Loot the Treasury” part of late stage fiat collapse.

100K followers. Signal in a sea of noise. That's the mission and it's not changing. Thank you, freaks.

Noah strapped on his $180 Nike Air Jordans this morning—manufactured by Taiwanese contractors paying workers $2.68 per hour—and felt the revolutionary fire burning in his chest. 9:15 am: Posted "ACAB" from his iPhone 14 Pro. Apple's $3 trillion market cap makes it the most valuable corporation in human history, but Jake needed those extra camera features for protest documentation. The lithium in his battery came from Bolivian salt flats, where mining operations displaced indigenous Quechua communities. But Evo Morales opposed American imperialism, so the math works out somehow. 11:30 am: Grabbed his usual oat milk latte ($6.50) from the local coffee collective. The beans traveled 4,200 miles from a Guatemalan cooperative that pays farmers $1.20 per pound while Starbucks charges $12 per pound retail. Jake tipped $2 on his Square reader because workers deserve dignity. The collective's owner graduated from Wharton and drives a Tesla Model S. 2:45 pm: Bought a new black hoodie from an "ethical" streetwear brand. Cotton sourced from Xinjiang province, where the Chinese state apparatus runs the world's largest forced labor program. But the company's Instagram bio says "Anti-Fascist" and donates 2% of profits to local bail funds, so Jake felt good about the purchase. The hoodie cost $85. A Hanes equivalent costs $12. 7:20 pm: Ordered Thai delivery through DoorDash while ranting about gig economy exploitation. The driver earned $3.47 after expenses for a 45-minute round trip. Jake rated him five stars and added a $4 tip, then posted about dismantling capitalism on his $1,200 MacBook Air. The beautiful irony: every single transaction Jake made today strengthened the exact system he claims to oppose. But he measured his day by his stated intentions, not by where his dollars actually flowed.

Gavin Newsom: “We owned JD with that meme!” Meanwhile, JD Vance:

Orioles chief revenue officer Don Rovak says ticket plans for the new Truist Club behind home plate start at 40-game packages for $15,000. That comes out to $375 a ticket. The team won’t be selling individual game tickets but they will be available on secondary markets.