It feels like we’re living through a major shift right now — economically, socially, and technologically.

AI will inevitably take over many white-collar roles, especially where thinking and analysis are the core of the job. Blue-collar work, on the other hand, will be far more resilient. This shift will push people back towards producing real value — creating, building, and contributing in tangible ways.

Ironically, it could empower small, independent operators again. The big corporates — slow, bureaucratic, and risk-averse — will struggle to adapt at the same pace.

Large corporations have also become completely dependent on the debt-and-inflation model that underpins today’s economy. Their growth isn’t driven by productivity or innovation anymore — it’s fuelled by cheap credit and constant monetary expansion. When money loses value every year, they can mask stagnation with higher nominal revenues, and borrow endlessly to fund buybacks, acquisitions, and artificial “growth.” It’s the fiat illusion at play, not progress. Once the cheap-debt era ends, many of these enterprises will crumble under their own weight, while smaller, agile producers who create real value will rise.

Add in free market capital and #Bitcoin, and we may find ourselves returning to a world that values quality over quantity — craftsmanship and pride over convenience and corporate profits.

Almost like coming full circle to the gold standard era, when products were built to last, and pride was found in the work itself. When independents thrived because they produced something real.

And once people become fatigued by endless screens, algorithms, and synthetic “connection,” they’ll start craving real human experience again — face-to-face conversation, shared meals, hands in the dirt sort of stuff.

My grandparents in New Zealand lived that way. They grew their own food, worked their land, and lived simply but fully. There’s a purity to that life that feels more relevant now than ever.

Even housing reflects the distortion of this fiat clown era — small city apartments at absurd prices. It’s unsustainable. Eventually, people will move back to rural areas, where they can afford space, breathe fresh air, and raise families closer to nature.

Maybe what we’re witnessing isn’t collapse — maybe it’s a correction back to something more human.

And the era of fiat currencies will go down in history as an experiment that didn’t work.