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![LucienWolfe111 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:24/cr:twitter::1925165717349183488.png) Lucien Wolfe [@LucienWolfe111](/creator/twitter/LucienWolfe111) on x 14.4K followers
Created: 2025-07-16 08:04:43 UTC

Back when you could get a full meal, gas up, and grab a movie—all under $10—nobody stopped to ask why everything was that cheap.

It wasn’t kindness.
It was leverage.

America ran a dream economy on outsourced labor, petro-dollar dominance, and infinite credit.
But when BRICS started testing alternatives and domestic unrest grew too visible… the curtain slipped.

Suddenly, overnight jobs were “non-essential.”
Dollar store shelves emptied.
And your paycheck started buying half of what it did five years ago.

COVID was the trigger.
But the setup? That took decades.

Some folks remember the 2008 crash and think it ended.
It didn’t.
They just got smarter at hiding the collapse.

The real question is—
How much of what we lost was planned?

And what are they still keeping just out of reach?


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