I've spent my adult life thinking about defending digital privacy.

Yet until a few years ago, financial freedom & privacy was barely on my radar.

This would have probably continued but for a handful of good humans that took the time to talk me through things.

Thanks to thinking they kicked off for me, I now think that individual access to aspects of financial freedom & privacy are necessary to a healthy society.

Why did it take so long? Well, there was a failure of adversarial imagination on my part.

And partly because if you aren't actively asking hard questions, this state of affairs will be hidden from you.

The financial system & how it is taught is set up to hide structural privacy violations & disempowerment.

I'm pretty sure my ignorance was closer to the norm than the exception.

But when you completely restrict financial privacy & freedom, you disempower people...constantly.

And it will keep eroding & blocking the exercise of other core rights.

Until this changes & awareness grows, we're stuck paying the price for it in a thousand ways.