Reimagining Wealth: The Course of the 2020s

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Wealth became an evil word. Much of what we saw the last 15 years in the developed world shows this.

The Great Financial Crisis was the apex. During that time, more than 30 years of wealth admiration was smashed. Wall Street was suddenly viewed in a completely different light. The best and brightest no longer were destined there. It became fashionable to head elsewhere.

Excess, greed, and bailouts caused people to get fed up. The division between rich and poor was leveraged by political establishment. This continues to this day.

Unfortunately, due to the pullback, the working class suffered even more. Economic growth has dropped another level, taking the participation rate down with it.

All of this is going to be challenged in the 2020s. There is a new game in town and it is going to be very profitable.

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Shunning Wealth

Symbols of wealth changed rather rapidly. After the GFC, many of the well off started to hide it. No longer were country clubs the in thing. Expensive automobiles were relegated to the extreme upper end. In fact, driving a Prius become a hip thing to do.

Art became more popular. For some reason, having obscene amounts of money handing on a wall was permitted. This caused a new generation of investors to enter this market.

The wealthy became the target for all that is wrong in the world. As stated, politicians latched onto this for their own gain. By stirring the pot, they caused a great deal of animosity towards not only the likes of Musk and Bezos, but the local attorney or business person who attained success. Never mind the fact that politicians themselves end up becoming multi-millionaires while earning $150K per year (in the US).

By making wealth a dirty word, the entire economic system took an even greater downturn. Instead of looking to solve problems, people became activists. Unfortunately, no matter how much anyone complains about it, our world is still driven by money and finance. Try to accomplish much in any industry without either. It is ironic how people who frame things in this manner still want to be paid.

The idea is that everyone deserved the same. This, too, is having an impact. In the quest for this, we see economic conditions across areas such as the EU entering into a dire state. Dependence is close to having a boomerang effect.

We have a system that is one economic collapse away from wiping out a large number of countries. When that happens, a lot of promises go out the window.

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Wealth Reimagined

A funny thing happened along the way. In our distaste for the situation during the Great Financial Crisis, we had something quietly spring up that few noticed. The introduction of Bitcoin started the process to change the world.

Unknown at the time, we saw a monetary innovation that would start to unleash the Age of Abundance. More than a decade later, we are starting to see how some of the ideas we shunned are suddenly becoming popular again.

A cryptocurrency millionaire is applauded. These are people who became wealthy with turning their backs on the establishment. In fact, the renegade attitude many have towards the present banking and financial system made them stars. The Bitcoin HODLers have become superstars for their dedication to the formation of this industry. People such as Vitalik Buterin are the new Steve Jobs of the world.

One of the appealing characteristics to cryptocurrency is the inclusiveness of it. Bitcoin, along with other innovations, started to provide powers that once were relegated only to the bankers of the world. Now anyone can create money. This is a major step forward in the establishment of a new monetary and financial system.

It is allowing for it to spread wider and faster than anything we saw. People in third world nations are able to get rewarded for activity done on a smartphone. This is casting new light into how the global economy will look in the future.

No longer is geography the most important criteria. With this are going to be entirely new outlooks upon those who are successful.

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Massive Wealth

Wealth can be reimagined because it is going to be massive. The numbers will get truly ridiculous by the end of this decade. What is exciting is the fact that billions of people can be involved with this.

The digital world increases rapidly. Here is the key component. Acceleration in wealth is occurring because it is not concentrated solely in the physical realm. The last 30 years showed up some of the potential albeit underscoring what is truly possible. Progress throughout the 2020s will highlight have much quicker things are.

In short, everyone is able to achieve life changing money. This is something that is available to anyone who is online. Digital organizations are starting to spring up. People are realizing the capabilities of tokenization. New business structures such as the DAO is going to generate sums that make the Robber Barons of the 19th century look like paupers.

Crypto Millionaires are going to be a dime a dozen. In the near future, it is not going to be difficult to make vast sums via cryptocurrency. We will see millions of gamers reaping huge rewards. Content creators, infrastructure providers, and passionate people will all be incentivized. Financial tools that were the hallmark of the banking industry could allow anyone to maximize their holders, putting the dormant value to work.

As stated in the past, we are looking at numbers that will move into the quadrillions.

This is aligning with an era where automation is starting to accelerate. Throughout history, it was only the wealthy who were afforded the opportunity at recreation. For everyone else, that was considered laziness.

We are quickly moving into a period where many of the basic needs of society will be automated. This could have a serious impact upon jobs, ones that most people hate anyway. While many fear the loss of these, it is a net benefit to society. Fortunately, cryptocurrency is gearing up to be a solution. The ones who will benefit the most, naturally, are those who are most tech savvy. That means the younger generation is going to be able to close the financial gap in a short period of time.

By the end of the 2020s, wealth will take on a new meaning. No longer will it be shunned like it is today. It will not be Wall Street leading the charge or earning insane sums of money. Instead, we are going to see people who threw a few thousands dollars in some Meme coin become worth tens of millions of dollars. Those instances, however, will not be rare.

The traditional symbols of wealth are not going to carry the same weight. Instead of showing up in the physical world, it is going to be which network one belongs to or what NFT one has in his or her wallet.

As digitization spreads even further, not only do we see acceleration in the pace of things, but social norms change. Cryptocurrency is going to change things on many different levels. In creating vast fortunes, it will reimagine wealth along with society.

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Wealth has changed its shape with all other post-modern concepts in our lives. Back in years, millionaires were those who spent their entire life at the top of a roller coaster while it is today as easy as minting an NFT with 5 clicks. I think we need to coin more words to identify new era wealth as existing ones hardly address all kinds of wealth in 21st century.

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It will get easier in time as the digital world keeps expanding. So many possibilities before us. It is really amazing to see how things are shifting.

A few more years and a lot of this will be mainstream.

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We're in the middle of a change, we see the shifting from the "old way" to the "new way". It's unfolding right before our eyes. Not everyone is seeing it, yet! But we are living in very interesting times.

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This is really interesting, @taskmaster4450. It will be interesting watching it all work itself out from the inside. I wonder if it will be held back by those who still believe crypto is a scam or a Ponzi scheme. I personally look forward to the greater adoption and acceptance of crypto in day to day life.

There have got to be some changes coming at least in the United States. The distribution of wealth is getting way out of whack and it just can't continue this way.

I am looking forward to how things will turn out but I think it may depend. From what I see, wealth might be misleading. Would holding a bunch of MEME coins and no liquidity still be considered as wealth? I do think it will look different as the online world changes but it's hard to really figure out.

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Would holding a bunch of MEME coins and no liquidity still be considered as wealth?

No just like having a penny stock making one a millionaire because the last paint job put the price up 2,000%.

There are many variables and obviously being able to sell out and liquidate ones position has to be considered.

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"This could have a serious impact upon jobs"
Even with all of this new awesome TECH we still have a large portion of the population that rely on those types of jobs, and very soon they will start disappearing, and our restaurants, hotels, and stores will not need many positions like cashiers.
At Walmart 2 Associates maintain 12 self-check-out registers. The self-check-out registers are the future Walmart sees it only needs 1/6 of its front-end associates which is huge.
I am thinking the highest unemployment numbers ever.

Decentralization has a better chance to spread the wealth and repeating the rewards and giving them to the users or investors through their economics is better than before. The financial system derived from crypto has become a plain terrain for anyone willing to invest which wasn't possible with traditional finance. Now if most of the same people will jump on this opportunity or not is at least an open market where anyone can participate if he/she can or is willing to.

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I agree. The fact that Hive is permissionless means anyone can join and start being rewarded for participation.

Not many offer the ability to earn crypto before buying it.

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By making wealth into a dirty word, people started to believe it was, in fact, dirty.
So en masse we engraved this into our subconscious: Wealth is dirty, and I don't deserve to have it. When one believes this, especially when it's been taught like this: more or less from generation to generation, because the rich are bad, a humble slave who works for a wage is good, it surely generates an impact.

Lucky for me, I've always believed that wealth is within my reach, that I am deserving of it, and that good things can be done with it. Call it karma, or whatever. This positive attitude helps. If you do it the other way around, and believe you don't deserve it, or that it doesn't have a place in your life, well then the opposite happens.

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I am really dreaming of this all the time. I put some funds into hive and other cryptos but what really struck me the most is how rewarding it can be to play ball in the crypto court. Leofinance showed me DEFI and I am participating on both cubdefi and polycub earning APRs that are unimaginable in the banking sector. One of my splinterlands affiliates is spending money every day making me a passive income which I can use to further grow my portfolio.
And this is not even my real job. I have a real job as well and it still pays the rent and my food. This is good since I do not want to touch my crypto until it is not producing enough on a monthly basis to provide for commodity costs.
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The 2020s is doing the universe a good one, bringing in the First age of abundance I would say.

The game is changing in a rapid way that it can't be stopped or slowed. This growth will affect the society for sure, where we have 1% of millionaires in a community will have a massive boost that might almost be up to 50% millionaires compared to how easily it is to lose than to gain.

Wealthy is created daily and it's not stopping anytime, the economy will feel it's impact too, especially the 9-5 jobs of today.

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It is going to be interesting to see how the "new economy" unfolds.

The tokenization of everything is really going to have an impact. It opens up an entirely new world.

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Yes it's going to be an interesting one.

A new world order entirely.

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Simple economic and technological evolution. There is no way to avoid it.

Things are moving too fast and in too many directions. The limitations on the digital world are few. This means we can expect massive growth to keep taking place.

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This means we can expect massive growth to keep taking place.

Of course, it's going to be massive, considering we are just getting hang of things, and how we can further improve the digital world.

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The amazing thing is the starting point we are at considering where things were 20 years ago. That is why we can use words like "massive". Back then, we were at a much lower level in both our advancement and capabilities.

Now we are much further down the road. Hence I see the progress, even if it is the same as the past 10 years, putting us in a huge position going forward. It is all building.

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The amazing thing is the starting point we are at considering where things were 20 years ago.

20 years ago would be me in a cradle or somewhere napping lol.

Things have evolved greatly in the last 20 years.

I remember purchasing a Java phone back in High school, Smartphones are now today's norm, which won't be the same for the next 20 years too.

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You dont want me to tell you what I remember.

I had a grandmother who had a rotary phone.

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I am really looking forward to seeing what happens with DAO's. I think those are going to be a really big catalyst in many of the changes we see in the future. I know you have talked about them quite extensively and every time I read about them I find them even more interesting.

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Still a lot of theory since we have not done a lot of experimenting.

There is so much potential though.

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It certainly won't be bad to call this era, the era of Techno-Wealth Revolution. We are maximizing technology to the best of its financial outputs.

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Certainly technology is at the core of it. Of course, it was at the core the last time and that did not fare well for most. Generated a lot of wealth but very little distribution.

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Never mind the fact that politicians themselves end up becoming multi-millionaires while earning $150K per year (in the US).

This has happened in Canada as well, With the PRemiers making millions owning the businesses that stayed open or deemed "essential", Our PM has been invested in mRNA for years

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It comes everywhere. Few politicians leave office with the same money they went in.

Amazing how this works.

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To me, Age of Abundance is just a facade of what crypto is actually doing. Crypto as a tool is making the distribution of societal growth fairer which creates an illusion that we are entering the age of abundance. We were always in abundance, and that abundance was not getting distributed fairly.

Even then our abundance is still limited, real Age of Abundance will start when we as a society start to exploit the Solar System. Resources would be a thing of the past.

There are many layers to it. It is fun to delve into it big time. Taking a philosophical approach to things can really give a deep understanding.

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I think creator economy has took out the gatekeepers, FAANG and some of the companies around the world has managed to get more normal people get some income out of the social media. And crypto even makes the power of FIAT reduce on the people. I think we are going to see shift of the opinion from middle class to rich and poor to middle class as the economy shifts due to the crypto and DeFi.

I find the wealth equations changing more if the NFT and few other crypto specific projects take out a lot of market assumptions out. We won't be silenced by the imperialism, govt and the social statures from now onwards is how I feel.

It is a radical shift. Web 3.0 is real in my opinion even if people want to think it is a scam. Whatever the view people take, we are now at the point where we can have a major impact.

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I've been thinking for a while that perhaps those who are very vocal in their hostility against money and finance are not really conscious of the logical conclusion of their position. It appears to me that it is fine with them to redistribute other people's money but not their own.

If politicians are really into poverty reduction and inclusiveness, which are their favorite platforms, instead of hostility, they should be providing the kind of intellectual environment conducive to the growth and expansion of cryptocurrency.

It never entered my wildest dream that cryptocurrency can provide us with an alternative to the establishment of a new monetary and financial system.

I also didn't expect that being in a developing country due to the low cost of standard of living is now an advantage with the kind of transition that is happening now.

Grateful for your insights!

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The ones who will benefit the most, naturally, are those who are most tech savvy. That means the younger generation is going to be able to close the financial gap in a short period of time.

Yesterday toofasteddie shared a post about his daughter upon visiting her blog, I was blown away for a teenager her age taking advantage of the opportunities here is amazing, she kept on bugging her dad to buy Bitcoin until toofasteddie
No doubt the future of crypto/blockchain is for the younger generations, we are the trailblazers, hopefully we get to enjoy the wealth from this before kicking the bucket.

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It is right up the alley of younger people. Those who understand technology can be well positioned in under a decade.

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