Let me tell you what "the economy is complex" looks like from where I'm standing.
I'm a maintenance worker from Maine. I mop floors, fix broken things, keep the lights on for people who don't know my name. I went back to my old job — the one I worked in the late 90s — because my wife and I started a small business and the bills don't care about your dreams.
I've got a high school diploma from 2001. I've been sober six years after turning my life completely around. I've spent the last year teaching myself to code at night, building crypto tools, writing about Bitcoin, trying to figure out how a guy like me actually gets ahead in this economy.
And this week Jerome Powell stood at Harvard — Harvard — and told the world the Fed doesn't have the tools to fix this.
Cool. Great. Thanks Jerome.
Meanwhile I'm watching my grocery bill do things that would make my grandfather cry. I'm watching the stock market crater while the guys who caused it get bailed out. Again. I'm watching banks that got caught laundering cartel money pay a fine and go back to work on Monday while regular people get account freezes for buying Bitcoin.
The system isn't broken. It's working exactly as designed — just not for us.
So I did what any rational person does when the game is rigged. I stopped playing it.
I don't trust the Fed. I don't trust the banks. I don't trust politicians who've never worked a real job in their lives to fix an economy they've never actually lived in.
I trust math. I trust code. I trust 21 million.
While Powell was fumbling at a Harvard podium this week, Bitcoin ran 144 blocks. No holidays. No bailouts. No "we're monitoring the situation." No emergency Sunday night Fed meeting. Just blocks — every ten minutes — like clockwork — like it always has.
I became a Bitcoin maxi, a builder, a writer, a one-man crypto operation running on coffee and spite because I had to. Nobody was coming to save me. Nobody's coming to save you either.
The difference between me and the guy who just keeps hoping things get better? I stopped waiting for permission.
Bitcoin doesn't ask for permission either.
The Fed just admitted it's out of ideas. The banks are already figuring out who to pass the losses to. Spoiler: it's you.
I'll be over here stacking sats, shipping code, and building something real.
You should be too.
Stack accordingly. No one else will do it for you.
— Jon Rich | StackerZero | Maintenance worker by day. Bitcoin maxi by night.