How the Modern World Is Designed to Make You Economically Irrelevant
We are living through one of the most paradoxical times in human history. On paper, humanity has never been richer. But for the average middle-class person, life has never felt more uncertain.
Prices are skyrocketing — not just for luxuries, but for essentials.
- Housing? Out of reach for most young people unless they inherit it.
- Education? Becoming a debt trap rather than a stepping stone.
- Healthcare? A single emergency can wipe out a family’s savings.
And even with two incomes, families are struggling to live a dignified life. The middle class — once the backbone of society — is being hammered from all sides.
Salaries don’t keep up with inflation. Jobs are unstable. Freelance and gig work has no safety net. Every few months, another wave of layoffs hits — even in industries that are supposed to be “booming,” like tech.
So, what’s going on?
The modern world is designed to make you economically irrelevant. And in that process, it strips away not just your financial stability — but your dignity.
What Do I Mean by “Taking Away Your Dignity”?
It’s not that you won’t be able to put food on the table. It’s not that you won’t have access to material comforts. In fact, we’re heading toward an age of abundance. But here’s the catch: you won’t earn those things by contributing meaningfully to the economy through work or entrepreneurship.
Instead, they’ll be handed to you through government transfers:
- Direct Benefit Transfers (DBT): Already covering nearly 80% of the population.
- Welfare schemes and subsidies: Over 60% of the population is supported by them.
- UBI (Universal Basic Income): Coming soon — and likely to cover 90% of people.
The result? You may “survive,” but you’ll survive without agency. Without influence. Without the dignity that comes from producing, owning and contributing.
That’s the real trap: economic irrelevance.
And once you’re economically irrelevant, you lose your voice. You won’t shape policy. You won’t shape the future. You’ll simply adapt to it.
How Is the Modern World Designed to Make You Irrelevant?
It rests on two pillars:
- Supermassive Efficiency-Gain Industries (SMEGs): Industries that create exponential productivity — pushing humans out of the equation.
- Monetary & Fiscal Policies (M&FPs): Systems designed to funnel wealth to the top 1% who control these industries.
Together, they form a closed loop — rewarding those at the top while accelerating irrelevance for everyone else.
1. Supermassive Efficiency-Gain Industries (SMEGs)
Throughout history, efficiency revolutions have displaced workers:
- Agricultural Revolution: Mechanization made 90% of farmers unnecessary. In India today, 45% still depend on farming but contribute just 15–16% of GDP. Since 1995, over 300,000 farmers have committed suicide.
- Industrial Revolution (1760–1840): Millions thrown into slums, exploited in factories, dying before 25. Profit over people — mass human sacrifice for industrial efficiency.
- Web Revolution: The internet promised opportunity but destroyed middle-class industries. Bookstores, travel agents, newspapers, retail chains — wiped out. In their place? A handful of monopolies like Amazon, Google and Netflix. Gig work and digital landlords replaced dignified jobs.
- AI Revolution (Now): The next and final wave. Automation, robotics and generative AI are already replacing white-collar and blue-collar jobs alike. This is the most brutal efficiency revolution yet.
Each time, society promised “progress.” But for the 99%, it meant displacement, dependency and irrelevance.
2. Monetary & Fiscal Policies (M&FPs)
The financial system is the second weapon. Since the creation of the Federal Reserve (1913), the dollar leaving the gold standard (1971), and the bailouts of 2008 — monetary and fiscal policy has been engineered to serve the top 1%.
Tools like:
- Quantitative Easing (QE)
- Fractional Reserve Banking
- Zero/low interest rates
- Corporate bailouts & stimulus
- Tax loopholes for the wealthy
These policies inflate asset prices, fuel monopolies and protect capital — while the costs (inflation, taxation, devalued currency) are dumped on the 99%.
The Perfect Example: AI in 2025
Governments and private investors have already mobilized $1.2 trillion in Capex for AI — half a trillion in public spending (Project Stargate), and over $200 billion in private funding.
Through fractional reserve banking, this inflates into 5–10x leverage. Asset prices surge. Returns flow to AI founders, investors and capital holders.
The displaced? Workers, employees, contractors — pushed further into irrelevance.
The Loop: Subset vs. Superset
Think of it like this:
- Superset = 100% of the population.
- Subset = Top 1%. The nexus of SMEGs + M&FPs.
The subset feeds on itself — efficiency gains + policy capture — while excluding the superset. The result? 99% are priced out of relevance.
So, What’s the Solution?
You can’t “beat” the system. It was never designed for you.
Whenever there’s upside (profit, innovation, growth) — it flows to the top 1%. Whenever there’s downside (crisis, inflation, collapse) — it’s socialized onto the 99%.
So, the real solution is: stop playing the wrong game.
If you can’t beat them, join them — by shifting into the 1% mindset:
- Understand the loop.
- Own assets in SMEG-driven industries.
- Build distribution, networks and digital leverage.
- Think like a sovereign operator, not a consumer.
The modern economy is not built to work for the vast majority. But it does work for the few who understand its design.
That’s what this platform, this channel and this movement are about: showing you how to reclaim your economic relevance in an economy designed to take it away.
This needs a conversation, a tribe and a movement. That’s why I’m building it.
We’re in this together. The only question is: will you let the system make you irrelevant — or will you step up, think like the 1%, and reclaim your dignity?
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