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The Only Valuable Investment
We don't recognize actual value because we constructed an artificial world and appointed worth to worthless materials.
When consumer spending vanished, stocks crashed, companies folded, production ceased, and financial security withered for nonessential workers. The pandemic stripped the thick coat of fool's gold, exposing the dilapidated framework gluing our economy's artificially manufactured value together, and everyone saw its vulnerability. If the Federal Reserve hadn't jumped in, the whole system would have collapsed because the glue upholding the sticks isn't an infinitely durable material.
We live in two worlds, the fabricated and the actual, yet assign worth to one and disregard the other. Belief constructs the fictional world's economic foundation — our livelihoods, but essential elements naturally exist in the authentic. Accumulating money to preserve wealth by investing in speculative commodities and markets is worth more than the finite materials sustaining our survival because artificial worth disorients us from understanding value entirely.
Cryptocurrencies, stocks, and other meaningless investments are LARP (live, action, role-playing) humanity's manifestations of mystical wealth. Imagine justifying the pseudo value to an alien, let alone ourselves…
