I tried a little experiment.

I told a group of people:

“Imagine the Fed freezes the printer. There are 100 trillion dollars in existence, and never again is a new one created. Meanwhile, people keep working, producing, inventing—growth continues. But those same 100T dollars must circulate in all of it. What happens? Each dollar represents a bigger slice of wealth. Your $100 bill, without you lifting a finger, buys more in 5, 10, 20 years.”

Blank stares.

They couldn’t process it.

They’ve been conditioned to think money must lose value. To them, the idea that money can actually appreciate feels like a glitch in the matrix.

That’s the cognitive block: inflationism as dogma. They don’t even argue—it just doesn’t register.

I didn’t mention Bitcoin. I kept it in dollars, just to avoid the knee-jerk “orange coin” shutdown. Still—nothing.