The inversion most people miss

The narrative says:

“Debt fuels growth.”

The reality is:

Debt pre-claims labor.

It’s not neutral.

It’s not victimless.

It’s a time lien.

And the people who get to conjure the digits earliest — banks, governments, large institutions — get first claim on that future labor, while everyone else pays through:

higher prices

longer working lives

reduced purchasing power

shrinking optionality

The quiet truth

People think they’re “bad with money.”

What they’re actually experiencing is:

being downstream of a system that already spent their time before they arrived.