The Game within the Matrix

For the blue pillers

Like all stories - there are two sides.

In a previous post, I catalogued all of the ways the system is set up to keep you a Slave.
In this post I want to look at it from the opposite angle. How to profit from the system.

Matrix analogy recap

Sorry for harping on the movie the Matrix. But it fits so well into how I see the world.

I’ve mentioned analogies before such as the Matrix. Where government is the machine and the armies of imprisoned and unknowing humans are the lifeforce that provide resources to the machine.

In the matrix the blue pill, if chosen keeps you in the matrix, unknown and oblivious to the sinister outer layer. If the red pill is chosen, you fall out of wonderland into the hash realities and the subsequent consequences.

Let’s say you do decide to choose the blue pill. You choose to remain in this world as perhaps it isn’t that bad after all. You’ve enjoyed some of the game, the interactions and wins that you have experienced. Much like Cypher, one of the characters who wants to betray Morpheus in exchange for a life-enhanced by the machine.

In this post I will show the other side to being a Slave - should you choose to remain in the Matrix and live a life like Cypher.

The Game

I’ll call it “The Game” in this post. The Game really is The Debt based economy and Fiat.

Just a quick refresher -

Fiat is the currency modern countries use. It is used as a store of value that can be split into smaller or larger units and it is pretty simple to use as a medium of exchange. However it is backed by nothing. The only thing that keeps people giving/taking it is the trust that it will be able to redeemed for something of actual value. E.g. a piece of paper traded for a cow.

Debt based economy is money is created through lending. It poofs out of nowhere from the elites hands into our hands as a debt, they receive an asset. The debt must be paid back with interest. So they magic something of nowhere and then they want to be repaid back MORE than they gave us (which cost them nothing). 😆😆😆

A reasonable takeaway for a rational thinker is then that money isn’t real - which is correct. It’s just convincing one conscious that the paper being exchanged actually is valuable.

Looking at it from another angle:

convincing someone something (piece of paper) is worth something = actual value (cow or house or all or 1000 unit multi family apartment building)

So given the equation of convincing somebody something is worth something = actual value you should be able to see examples of it in real life right? It sounds crazy!

An actual example that happens daily:

A Venture Capital Company sign a deal for $50 billion to the founders of ABC Startup.

Looking at it from another angle -

• ABC Startup with their sketchy software, riding high on the promises of some latest AI technology convince the investors that this new software will make the investors a huge return.

• In reality the software is just mockups, slide decks and a few semi-working prototypes

• The market valuations of AI companies are sky high due to the potential of being the next Industrial Revolution

• The investors pony up 10% of the deal and the 90% comes from banks

• The 90% of money from the banks is magicked out of nowhere

• The 10% comes from various sources all of which are magicked money. Fractional reserve banking is a system where banks only hold a fraction of their deposits in reserve and lend out the remainder. When a bank issues a loan, it doesn't physically give out the money from its vaults but instead credits the borrower’s account, effectively creating new money. This loaned money is spent and deposited into other banks, which in turn keep a portion as reserves and lend the rest. This process repeats multiple times, amplifying the total money supply—a phenomenon known as the money multiplier effect.

So 100% of the money funding the $50 billion dollar deal is magicked out of no where.

Money isn’t real and to get infinite amounts of it all you need to do is convince people to give it to you. ABC Startup convinced an entity to give them $50 billion dollars.

Humans default to thinking that the $50 billion dollars that backed the deal would have been saved from hundreds of years of human labor, businesses, production, jobs, value creation etc. In reality it just got magicked out of nowhere. Right now.

What makes that hard to comprehend is that our Universe and natural environment is all constrained within the laws of thermodynamics. There is no something for nothing in any way, shape or form in our natural world. There are no perpetual motion machines.

It blows my mind to think that its possible but that is The Game that we are playing. Check out this clip from an excellent interview where the concept is casually discussed without batting an eyelid.

The Game, should you decide to blue pill in the Matrix, really is underpinned by internalizing, understanding and accepting one key rule.

Money isn’t real, it is infinite. To become really, really rich is - convincing an entity to engage with a bank to materialize that cash and give it to you. Repeat.

That’s how you play the game and win after swallowing the blue pill.

I’ve included a simple chart below so you can see how $100 dollars gets magicked into new money via banks.

Simple example of $100 dollars and the Money Multiplier Effect