00:00We're told we're free. Free to work, free to earn, free to spend. But how free are you really?
00:07If every dollar you make already belongs to someone else.
00:11There's a word for this invisible trap, usury.
00:15Once upon a time, usury was illegal. Not just frowned upon, banned.
00:19In Islam they call it haram. The Torah says do not charge your brother interest.
00:25And in Christianity, the only time Jesus is recorded as physically losing his temper
00:31was when he stormed the temple and drove out the moneylenders.
00:36Not the sinners, not the thieves, but the ones profiting from debt.
00:40These weren't abstract ideals.
00:43The ancients knew when money becomes a weapon, society becomes a battlefield.
00:48And usury, it's the silent weapon of kings and bankers alike.
00:53So we banned it for centuries.
00:55Because interest isn't just a fee.
00:58It's a slow transfer of power.
01:01Today we don't ban it.
01:02We build the entire economy around it.
01:05You borrow to study, you borrow to live.
01:07Nations borrow just to survive.
01:09And the deeper the debt, the harder the chains bite.
01:13Robert Kiyosaki said,
01:15It's not how much money you make, but how much you keep,
01:18how hard it works for you, and how many generations you keep it for.
01:22But how do you keep anything in a system where the interest eats your future
01:27before you even start?
01:30In 2009, a mysterious figure named Satoshi Nakamoto gave us a key.
01:36A peer-to-peer money system.
01:38No central banks.
01:39No forced interest.
01:41A system where you own your keys, your wallet, and your destiny.
01:46Bitcoin was the beginning of a new system.
01:49One not built on debt, but on code.
01:51Transparent, borderless, unstoppable.
01:55It wasn't just currency.
01:56It was a philosophy.
01:58It was also a whisper of freedom.
02:01Because for the first time in recent history, you could opt out.
02:06And for millions across the world, that whisper became a roar.
02:11Third world countries used stablecoins to fight inflation.
02:15DeFi to escape predatory loans.
02:18And DAOs helped to rebuild trust.
02:21And then something else began to emerge.
02:24A new kind of economy.
02:26Digital, borderless, playful, yet powerful.
02:29Web 3.
02:30It's been called the greatest wealth creation event in human history.
02:35But what if it's more than that?
02:37What if it's the catalyst for societal transformation?
02:40What if this isn't about Lambos and airdrops, but freedom.
02:45Real freedom.
02:47Metaverse platforms like Earth 2 and other digital economies are training grounds.
02:52Not games, but simulations.
02:55Teaching us to manage assets.
02:56To govern ourselves virtually.
02:59Allowing us to earn and build without middlemen, banks or borders.
03:03This is more than entertainment.
03:05It's economics with agency.
03:08Because if we can learn to own our digital lives, we might remember how to own our real ones.
03:15But here's the real question.
03:17Were we better off in a time when debt was a sin?
03:21When the rich couldn't profit off the poor just by waiting?
03:24Alan Watts once said,
03:26You are under no obligation to be the person you were five minutes ago.
03:31And the same goes for society.
03:33This system of interest, debt and scarcity is not inevitable.
03:37It's just old.
03:39Outdated.
03:40Built for kings.
03:41Not for creators.
03:43Web 3 may be our tipping point.
03:45Not just to make money, but to keep it, grow it and finally be free of the machine.
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