Crypto Is Not an Exit
People are rushing into crypto because it dangles the promise of escape. Fast money. Control. Freedom from the same banks and governments that hold the leash. But look closer and you see the same old trick: a system that farms you while pretending to liberate you.
Real Wealth vs. Phantom Wealth
Crypto produces nothing you can touch. It won’t feed you when the shelves are empty. It won’t heat your house when the grid fails. You can’t eat a coin. You can’t live inside a blockchain. If it doesn’t provide food, shelter, or energy, it’s not wealth. It’s a bet in someone else’s casino.
Extraction Dressed as Freedom
Crypto markets run on volatility because volatility is how insiders extract from outsiders. The story is always that you’re on the ground floor of something revolutionary. The reality is that you’re the exit liquidity. Every pump needs a dump. Every profit comes from someone else’s loss.
Gambling Disguised as Finance
People don’t store rent money in scratch-off tickets. They don’t plan retirement on roulette wheels. Yet crypto is built on the same odds. The charts and jargon are meant to mask it, but at the core it’s gambling. You win only if someone else loses, and most people lose.
Dependency in Disguise
Crypto is sold as independence. What it actually requires is complete dependence on servers, miners, exchanges, constant electricity, and an endless stream of new entrants to keep the system inflated. The moment those supports weaken, the house of cards collapses. That’s not an exit. That’s another tether.
Economic Violence
For every story of someone getting rich, thousands are left holding the bag. That destruction isn’t an accident. It’s the design. Crypto thrives on collapse because collapse is where insiders scoop up gains. The economic violence is hidden, but it’s real. Every winner stands on the broken balance sheets of losers.
The Real Exit
The exit isn’t a coin or a wallet on a screen. The exit is food in the ground, power that doesn’t cut off when the grid goes down, and community that can’t be erased by a crash in digital markets. That’s wealth that can’t be farmed out from under you. That’s stability that doesn’t vanish when the chart turns red.
Food as Currency
As farmers we deal in something crypto can’t touch. Food is the ultimate currency. It keeps people alive, it holds value in every season, and it can’t be wiped out by a market swing. We control food, and we don’t take crypto as a form of payment. We trade in something older and stronger than any coin or token: the ability to feed people.
If this resonates with you, I dig into these ideas more in Exit Farming: Starving the Systems That Farm You. It’s about walking away from hollow markets and building a life outside the systems that farm you.