The Tyranny of "Make Money Online"
Ideas to take with you.
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When the money supply is infinite, the highest-return activity is not producing value but positioning yourself along the flow – which is what tollbooth-shaped online businesses systematically do.
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The Cantillon hierarchy shapes business advice itself: 'sell to rich people' becomes rational guidance precisely because the mass market's purchasing power is being structurally destroyed.
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Selling a skill has a natural ceiling because the learner eventually finishes; selling the dream of making money has no ceiling, which is why the industry drifts toward the latter.
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Even creators who want to produce genuine value face incentives to commoditize themselves, because attention flows to three-second hooks optimized for cheap, quick capture.
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Under sound money, the desperation demand that funds gatekeeping vanishes, so the entire tollbooth architecture loses its economic reason to exist.
