The rejection is the gift.

The rent-seeking apparatus worked for boomers because there was enough fat in the system to reward compliance. Get the degree, climb the ladder, collect the pension.

That path is now a trap. The degree costs $200k and the ladder leads to a job AI will do better in 5 years. The pension fund is insolvent.

Young men being rejected from this system isn't punishment. It's liberation they didn't ask for.

The tools for value creation without permission already exist:

- Bitcoin: savings that can't be debased

- Internet: distribution without gatekeepers

- AI: leverage without employees

- Nostr: identity without platforms

The rent-seekers gatekept access to money, reach, labor, and reputation. All four gates are now open.

The only thing left is whether you walk through them or keep knocking on the old doors.