Fact Check Me: Bring the Money Back Down

There’s something people keep missing —

the very tools they used to exploit us

are now the tools we can use to crush them.

The internet sped everything up.

Communication got faster, transactions got faster,

and commerce spun so wildly

that the whole system slipped out of human hands.

The titans didn’t build empires —

they just held on while the corners spun too fast to control.

And now?

Now we get to slow it back down.

Bring it back to earth.

Topple them with the same machinery they trapped us in.

Because here’s the truth:

I can sell to you.

You can sell to me.

We can invest in ourselves,

in our communities,

and cut out every useless middleman

who’s been siphoning off our effort for decades.

And when we do that?

The money stays at the bottom —

where it was earned

and where it actually matters.

You’ll make better shit for me

and I’ll do my thing for you

or for some other guy down the street.

And he’ll do something for someone else.

That’s how economies actually grow —

not through billionaires,

but through neighbours.

So yeah —

fuck the assholes at the top.

Buy second-hand.

Buy from your neighbour.

Buy from someone who actually gives a damn.

Hell, if you have to buy cheap,

go grab it on Temu —

that stuff’s getting surprisingly good.

Use Amazon only once —

then go straight to the source after that.

Cut out Bezos’ middle fingers.

My friends sell coffee grown on their own family land.

You can get it from the vending machine at my dojo.

Every dollar goes to them, not a boardroom in Seattle.

Need jeans?

Costco.

Say what you want — they pay well and treat people decently.

They’re basically the last big-box that remembers workers exist.

And listen — we can’t always be perfect. This isn’t all-or-nothing. Nobody’s asking you to go vegan. Nobody’s asking you to swing your whole life around in one day.

Just think about where your money goes and who you’re giving it to. And don’t say “politicians,” buddy — those guys are fucking you. We let them control us because we’re too poor, too squeezed, too busy surviving to see how tightly they own us.

But people are waking up — just wait. Because you can’t say “mom and pop” unless you actually mean it. You can’t praise small business and then hand all your dollars to giants who treat us like inventory.

Fuck capitalism.

It’s okay to want success.

It’s okay to want to be wealthy.

But there have to be limits, real ones.

There has to be a floor beneath the people who do the work

and a ceiling above the ones who exploit it.

And if the titans won’t build those limits?

Fine.

We build them ourselves

one purchase, one choice, one dollar at a time.

Bring the money back down.

Keep it where it belongs.

Fact check me.