The year is 2050. Money as we know it has ended and Cryptocurrency has become the new form of currency. Every transaction, movement, and emotion is tracked. Crime is way down, but privacy is practically gone.
Law enforcement as we know it has been abolished. When you walk out of your nano apartment you see a highway of drones above your head. Tracking/tracing your every move/expression. Any chatter about the matter and you end up in a VR prison.
This sounds far-fetched and this could never happen, right? Well with the way things are going anything is possible. I try to call myself a free thinker and someone who tries to use empathy and logic to try to understand the world. I am still trying to process everything that has happened over the past 10 to 15 years, and how everything kind of happened at the exact moment in time that it was supposed to happen. All of this is not a coincidence.
The more the American dollar falls the higher BTC will go up. So anyone betting on Crypto at the moment will be very happy in a couple of years. It seems the price of luxury items and everyday essentials are going up, and things slowly keep disappearing out of stores. The system as we once knew is changing and all we can do is sit back and watch it all happen. This is a perfect time to start a journal because you are going to want to remember the remaining years of your so-called freedom.
What I want to know though is what will happen to the law as we know it? What will happen to jobs? What will happen to our system? Now do not get me wrong, I think a lot of things should change around the world but I am pretty sure that if Crypto ends up being the leader in currency and the tech elites get what they want then we little people are not going to like the outcome.
I love the idea of this technology and I believe that it could be used in the future as a form of currency. It could be used to change our financial system for the better. It could be used to connect all of us together. It could also be used to track everything you do, I mean EVERYTHING.
The only reason I am so invested in Crypto right now (and have been for years) is that our financial system has not done me any favors. It has actually put me farther and farther in debt. I was never taught how to take care of my money and invest. My parents did their best but they worked full-time jobs and I was stuck being taught through our warehouse and fast-food prepping schools. Our school system is a joke. We are programmed to do basic tasks and never taught how to be financially prepared because I believe that is what the corporate big wigs want.
I can see the hands of the government starting to clench down on Crypto. Which in a way, I know is needed. I also know that when the government gets involved in anything involving money it is never good for little people like myself. I have made a small amount from Crypto. If all of the rules and regulations go into effect they are going to try to make a lot of people who made a small life-changing amount and have them pay a tax on it. I do not believe this is fair, because the money I have made I made through my internet on my computer. Using my internet I pay for every month, which let me remind you, I pay taxes for that as well.
Crypto is an unstoppable machine. If you try to outlaw it and control it the prices are going to go even higher because it will turn into a hot black market commodity. I am still wondering how they are going to implement this. Things are getting interesting.
I was not taught how to invest, manage money, and anything about the credit system. I was never told that when I messed my credit up as a young man my life would be ruined. Talk of credit scores never happened in the schools I went to. I do not know what they teach now but I hope it involves some type of mandatory financial class.
Who am I though? Just some random guy who writes blogs on Crypto sites. I do not know anything. I am always told I think too much and I need to stop thinking too much. When did thinking too much become a bad thing? We used to gaze at the stars and wonder. Now all people do is stare at our phones consuming fear. We are headed to a sad and lonely place in the not-so-distant future if things do not change.
I am not saying investing in Crypto is wrong or a bad idea. I am just saying we need to be looking at the bigger picture here. I invest because I need money. I am almost positive a lot of other people have the same reason for investing. What are we bringing forth by backing this new form of currency? Also, I look and see how much good it has done in the world already. It has given countries better financial stability and caused poor countries to get out of the grasp of government control. This sounds good for the world right? It might be, It might not be.
Remember these are just my thoughts and if anything is wrong or you disagree please leave a comment. I love talking about stuff like this, so I would love to hear what others think as well.
Life as we know it will never be the same. I know people want it to be, but I know for a fact it will never be the same.
Things are getting out of control and people do not even see it. They are relying on this figment of their imagination to save them. What if that never happens. Are you prepared for the things that might be coming?
I hope you have enjoyed reading this article as much as I have had writing it. These are all just crazy thoughts of mine that I thought would be cool to share with everyone and maybe start a discussion in the comments. I am not sure if others think the same way as I do, but maybe by reading this others will start thinking outside of the box.
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