Hello, this is Oing.
Are you aware that the entire world is changing at an astonishing speed? You might hear news about ‘America getting old’ or ‘the power struggle with China’ and feel like it’s a distant issue. However, this tidal wave of change will directly affect your wallet and your retirement.
Today, I want to give you some direct but warm advice on how the monetary order we once trusted is collapsing, and how we must survive as economic subjects in this rapidly changing era.
1. The World Police, America, Has Declared It’s Too Tired to Continue
For the past 80 years, the United States has played the role of the ‘police’ for the entire world. It patrolled dangerous seas and maintained the order of international trade. Thanks to this, countries like ours could trade and grow safely. But now, this police force is too old and exhausted.
The biggest problem is ‘money.’ It costs a massive amount of money for the US to act as the world’s police. Until now, they managed by printing money, but their debt has grown too large. The shocking truth is that the cost of paying interest on US debt now exceeds the national defense budget.
They are caught in a dilemma: “Print less money, or cut the defense budget”. Cutting the defense budget is essentially declaring, “We won’t be the world police anymore.” In this tired state, the solution they’ve found is the ‘Dollar Stablecoin‘.
Simply put, they want people all over the world to use the US Dollar easily, like a digital coin, in their daily lives. Instead of spending money and military resources to maintain order, the US can maintain the power of the dollar (hegemony) by having people voluntarily use it. From America’s perspective, it becomes a safety net to maintain order ‘without shedding a single drop of blood’.
2. Why Your Cash Is at Risk: The Return of the Age of Exploration
What does the spread of the Dollar Stablecoin imply?
It means the collapse of the order the US fought hard to establish (a system where sovereign nations controlled their own currency). The power of each nation to issue its own money (Won, Euro, etc.) and adjust interest rates will disappear. If everyone uses the Dollar, we will have no choice but to follow the interest rates of the US Federal Reserve.
This is similar to the Age of Exploration, the setting of the movie <Pirates of the Caribbean>. As the central state order weakens, the seas become lawless, and giant merchant associations (Big Tech), which possess even military power, gain more influence than nations.
Who will fill the void left by the US’s retreat? It will be gigantic Big Tech companies like Google, Meta, and Samsung Electronics.
Especially for citizens in weaker countries, such as those in Africa, tokenized assets guaranteed by Big Tech could become far more trustworthy than the money or registries issued by their own government.
Think about it. A world is coming where you might trust Samsung or Google more than the government of the country you live in. In such a scenario, whose national currency would you trust and put in your piggy bank?
3. An Individual’s Survival Strategy: Avoid Rotting Money
Beyond the shifts in world order, another realistic problem threatening your money is aging society, or the inverted pyramid population structure.
The current pension system was designed for a time when there were many young people and few elderly. But now, the elderly population is growing, and the working-age population is shrinking. There is only one way for the government to keep its promise (pensions).
That is Inflation.
They reduce the ‘present value’ of seniors’ pensions by lowering the value of money. They make 3 million Won from the past feel like 300,000 Won today. This is what Keynes called the “euthanasia of the rentier class“. Since governments can’t risk their term by reforming the pension system, they resort to Inflation, the easiest and most painful method.
Furthermore, the CBDC (Central Bank Digital Currency) that governments wish to create might appear in the form of ‘rotting money‘ with an expiration date. By making the money lose value if you just hold onto it, they force consumption.
This is the core point:
National currency, that is, your Korean Won savings, can no longer be a reliable means of asset protection. Coldly acknowledging this reality is the first step to growing into an economic subject.
4. Act and Execute: You Must Find Your Own ‘Shield’
Even if nations may fail, individuals must secure their own retirement.
While it may not be a national alternative, there is a refuge for individuals. That is Bitcoin. Bitcoin serves as an individual’s shield, allowing you to separate and protect your assets from government control and inflation.
In this Korean Peninsula, there is no time to engage only in ‘moral debates’ or ‘armchair discussions’ within the cold reality of international politics. As the global situation descends into chaos, we must read this context well and not miss the opportunity.
Insight without action and execution is simply empty talk. If the world is changing rapidly, but you are still maintaining the same savings methods you used 10 years ago, that is a failure of execution.
You must immediately establish a dual strategy: create cash flow through side jobs and self-development, and simultaneously secure assets that will not be eroded by inflation. Bitcoin will serve as the most powerful shield among these countless monetary experiments.
Before it’s too late, I urge you to establish and execute your own strategy to protect your assets.
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