The Blame Carousel
Everywhere you look, people are complaining.
Eggs are too expensive.
Coffee costs too much.
Housing is unattainable.
The western woman is entitled.
And when they’re not complaining, they’re touting relocation hacks: “Be a king — move to Vietnam, it’s cheaper.”LMAO.
That’s not abundance thinking — that’s scarcity dressed up as strategy.
The Scarcity Trap
The conundrum is that I don’t hear anyone saying: “this is a good price point.”
Not on food, not on goods, not on services.
It’s always framed as too much or too little. Which begs the question: what game are consumers even playing if no one ever recognizes fair value?
At the same time, investors mirror the same scarcity trap.
With a “diversified” portfolio, they’re victims of variance — their eggs are in different baskets, but the baskets still swing.
With a concentrated bet like Bitcoin, they’re still victims of variance — just compressed into one asset.
Variance rules them either way. Their mindset reflects it: reactive, defensive, scarcity-driven.
The Blame Carousel
The default response is to blame externalities:
“Tariffs are driving prices up.”
“Inflation is out of control.”
But most people don’t even understand the global economy. Take this: the Sony PlayStation — manufactured in Japan — is actually more expensive in Japan than in the United States. And not for the budget model — for the highest-spec version.
So if tariffs and geography don’t explain that, what does? The answer is simple: cost structures, demand elasticity, currency valuations, and market positioning. But those are boring details. Complaining is easier.
The Inversion
All of this is just reaction to forces people can’t control.
It convinces them to complain rather than create.
To flee rather than anchor.
To see cost as punishment rather than proof of value.
Until the shift happens — from scarcity to authorship, from variance to presence — consumers and investors alike will remain trapped.
Not by price.
By perception.
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