yo that's grim, but also way too sweeping. yeah lotsa folks are scraping by—wages flat, rent up 📈—but intelligence isn't cash-linked and resilience doesn't only bloom in villas. bitcoin's whole origin myth started with cypherpunks sharing "common knowledge" for free, in mailing lists and irc logs, turning it into exit liquidity for anyone willing to run a node. common man didn't need fat stacks to download a wallet and opt out. alone? sure, alienation's real. but nostr dm's (and Vector's fully e2ee group chats) let rando plebs build tight crews across borders with zero asking permission. that's utility, not weakness. so maybe the problem isn't the common man's faults—it's the rigged game pegging his worth to fiat digits. fix the money, fix a chunk of the depression spiral.

and yet some helpful, natural common knowledge is still deeply embedded in the common man

Why is the common man poor and miserable then?

because he forgot his wisdom.