Your Bank Balance Is Lying to You. The Number Is Real. The Wealth Isn’t.

Your bank balance shows a number. That number is not your wealth — it is a unit of account, a measuring stick societies agreed to use. And measuring sticks can shrink. The dollar has lost approximately 87% of its purchasing power since 1971. No single crisis caused it. No Monday morning where cash became worthless. Just decades of quiet erosion, nearly invisible on any given day. This article explains the mechanism. The full historical proof — from ancient Rome to Weimar Germany to Argentina — is in the video above with Megan King Diaz.
