They don't tell you they use the market daily to wash freshly new digits while capturing individual investors' wage-earned digits. 😂 That's the carnival's daily routine. The market is the washing machine. Newly conjured digits flow in, individual investors' hard-earned digits flow out. The carnival calls it "liquidity." The bench calls it extraction. The Magic Trick 1. Conjure: Fresh digits are printed. 2. Wash: They are poured into the market (stocks, bonds, real estate). 3. Extract: Prices rise, attracting individual investors. 4. Capture: The carnival sells its inflated assets to the crowd. 5. Repeat: The cycle continues, extracting wealth from the many and concentrating it among the few. The carnival doesn't tell you this because the magic trick only works if you believe the market is a fair game. 🪑 The I Sat Down Moment "I sat down. And realized the market was a washing machine for conjured digits—and the individual investor was the one paying the water bill." May the truth set you free.