I read something yesterday that stopped me cold. |
A dad took his two kids and two other family members to a Disneyland Princess Breakfast. One of those character dining experiences where your little one gets to meet Cinderella, eat sparkly pancakes, and live out a dream. |
The bill? $937.65. |
That wasn't for a weekend. That wasn't for a hotel. |
That was just breakfast. |
Yes, it included a tip and a bit of magic. But it was still eggs, syrup, and a memory, the kind of memory that used to cost a couple hundred dollars, not a thousand bucks. |
And it got me thinking: what the hell happened to money? |
It's Not Disney, It's the Dollar |
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Most people look at a receipt like that and think, "Wow, Disney's out of control." |
But here's the truth most miss: It's not just that Disney got expensive. It's because the dollar got weak. |
We've normalized a slow-motion currency collapse. Quiet. Steady. Deadly. |
This is about erosion. You're not buying more, you're just paying more with money that buys less. |
Most people don't see it until something shocks them, like a breakfast bill that used to be a car payment. |
We joke about it. We post memes. But deep down, everyone feels the tension. That sinking feeling when your paycheck doesn't stretch as far. When a normal outing feels indulgent. When you hesitate to celebrate. |
That's not normal. That's currency decay. |
We're All Being Gaslit by the System |
The Fed tells you inflation is cooling. |
Your receipts say otherwise. |
They say 3% inflation, but you're living 30% inflation. |
The government rolls over trillions in debt every year. Interest payments on that debt exceeded defense spending for the first time in this country's history. |
Meanwhile, politicians promise more programs without explaining how to pay for them. |
We're not in a stable system but in a slow bleed. A structural unraveling disguised as economic stability. |
The Fed suppresses borrowing costs, inflates assets, and quietly taxes you through lost purchasing power to keep it going. They make the rich richer while telling you it's "transitory." |
Just look at housing. |
In 1985, the median home in America cost $82,800. Today, it's over $420,000. That's a 400% price surge, but wages haven't kept up. In 1985, the median home was about 3.5 times more expensive than the median household income. Today it's 6.3 times more expensive. |
Owning an asset became a lottery ticket. Renting became a treadmill. And millions missed the window. |
This is how middle-class families get squeezed while being told everything is fine. |
The Disneyland dad didn't make a mistake. He didn't get scammed. He just ran into the harsh math of modern money. |
He bought into the illusion. And then he got the bill. |
The New Cost of Normal |
It's not that people are living beyond their means. |
It's that the definition of 'means' has been quietly rewritten. |
What used to cover groceries, gas, school supplies, and a bit of joy now barely covers the essentials. |
Families haven't changed their lifestyles; they've been forced into a corner by numbers that no longer make sense. Paychecks haven't shrunk, but their buying power has. |
Stability hasn't vanished, but it's been priced out of reach. People are still budgeting, hustling, and trying to do everything right, but they're coming up short. |
The cost of "normal" has skyrocketed, and nobody adjusted their income to match. |
We used to call things like this a splurge. A rare, special occasion. |
But now, everything costs like a splurge. |
A weeknight dinner out, a trip to the movies, even grabbing takeout after a long day feels like a financial indulgence. |
So even small joys get deferred. People feel guilty for wanting to celebrate anything, like joy is something they haven't earned in an unforgiving economy. |
Worse, the guilt isn't about waste—it's about fear. Fear that one moment of joy might mean you can't cover the next emergency. |
Parents are cutting back on dentist appointments, families are skipping summer trips, and birthdays are becoming potlucks instead of outings—not because they want to, but because they have to. |
And the people who do spend often do it in silence, ashamed to talk about how much things cost now and afraid to sound ungrateful. |
This is how economic erosion becomes psychological erosion. |
The worst part? The system is doing precisely what it was designed to do: |
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Why the Wealthy Are Opting Out |
It's not paranoia. It's pattern recognition. |
Wealthy people are buying differently. |
They're locking in land, infrastructure, energy, and yield-producing assets. |
They're moving away from things that can be inflated and into things that can't be printed. |
They know the game. They're not playing defense. They're building moats. |
We're doing the same here at Moonshot Minute. |
In the Premium section, we break down two current positions we're holding: |
One owns the digital backbone of American internet traffic, leased to Big Tech on 20-year contracts. |
The other makes essential hardware for AI infrastructure. Custom chips that the cloud giants can't grow without. |
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These aren't speculative plays. They're necessities. And we're turning to them as the dollar loses its grip because here's the truth. |
I'm obsessed with preserving and protecting my purchasing power because protection isn't paranoia. It's preparation. |
I've worked too hard for too long to let the system rob me while telling me everything is fine. |
What That Breakfast Really Meant |
That $937 breakfast isn't just about pancakes. |
It's a mirror. |
It shows us what the dollar has become: a shadow of what it once was. |
You're not crazy for feeling like everything's more expensive. |
It is. |
Not because things are better, but because the measuring stick is broken. |
And no one told you the rules had changed. |
But they did. Quietly. Without permission. Without fanfare. |
Now it's up to you to respond. |
Start measuring your wealth in ownership, yield, and sovereignty. |
Because they can print money. |
But they can't print freedom. |
They can inflate costs. |
But they can't inflate truth. |
Double D |
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