So this will be controversial, but here IMO are the most common traps laid before us in the modern age:

1. Using fiat money (instead of #bitcoin)

2. Believing in political dogma (hint: they’re all the same and none give a shit about you at all)

3. Believing that the longest life is the best life (sure some remain independent until 90+ but for most, life after 70 is pretty unpleasant)

4. Having children (puts both you and your child squarely under the thumb of your government and drastically restricts your ability to exercise personal freedoms)

5. Blindly following a religion (most religions are systems of control, nothing more)

6. Materialism (wasting what little resources you have on garbage because you think it will make your life better-hint: very few material possessions will improve your life and most will actually end up owning you)

7. Living in urban environments (living in close proximity to others encourages group think)

8. Bad relationships (we are taught nothing about the true nature of successful marriage and instead are filled with bullshit notions regarding what we are owed by our spouses-hint: happy people don’t spend as much so the goal is to keep you as unhappy and with as unrealistic expectations as possible)

9. Financial illiteracy (related to belief in fiat and materialism, but we are taught nothing about what things we should actually value and how to set ourselves up for independence)

All of the above lead us to be obedient little slaves who will blindly go on producing yield for our masters well into old age. Until we collectively abandon the mindset that leads us into these traps, humanity will remain doomed.