With the end of school I was distracted from finishing our story. In the end, neither choice is a bad route to wealth, but the tax code really chooses to reward the simple path to retirement wealth through 401k's way less than it does using real estate. The way the IRS treats it for your heirs is also so profoundly different. So why do they make one option Frictionless and Mandatory for W-2? #4/4

I'm the @corndalorian of infographics thanks to AI! Information tells stories, this one is about a brick and mortar bloodbath. These were places you ran into people by chance or by habit. Now you don't.

Adjusting your priors is hard. You find your relationship to things becomes anchored in time and feel a dislocation as the current price moves ever further from your anchor.

Life became harder, even as on paper you were making nominal gains in your salary, whether through the bleed of inflation and a growing money supply, or the policy decisions that failed to account for that inflation, reaching deeper in households pockets than ever intended through taxation and surveillance. The Squeeze #7/7

Printing, it seems harmless to those that don't understand and is wonderfully opaque as a tool for those with power. The results, even as the indexes and anchors caused untold harm on a nominal basis, the damage on a real basis to the median household is so much worse. A dime for your time..... Squeeze #6/7

When it's your shelter that's designed to slip away through the scarcity of what, where and how you can build, combined with a financialized product to store wealth. Squeeze #4/7

These three squeezes are crazy. If you are insisting on being in an inflationary system, fixed unindexed figures can dig deep into pockets they weren't originally intended to pilfer. #3/7

#2/7 unindexed figures invade daily life