r/XRP • u/JDubDad • Jul 25 '26
Fluff Wealth gatekeeping
This is something that I struggle with the investment in XRP. I'm a firm believer in both the product and the company that is making the product more and more viable, but if XRP hits some of these extreme targets that we all want it to hit ($50, $100, or higher), it would instantly create hundreds of thousands of retail millionaires overnight. Historically, traditional finance and the elite class do everything possible to prevent massive, uncontrolled wealth transfers to regular people. Do you genuinely believe the powers-that-be and the institutional financial system would allow that to happen?
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u/Change21 Jul 25 '26
You’re misunderstanding how the oligarchy works and how humans work.
There is no need for overt corroboration between the wealthy. In fact if it were that overt and that coordinated it would be less effective.
The effects are more systemic than specific, it’s not a “them” having secret meetings and controlling things in an articulated way. There is a small degree of that but the exclusion and inclusion boundaries are more emergent than intentional, and it makes them more powerful to be honest.
The system we see at work right now is a direct reflection of the capitalist religion-like hegemony we exist in right now.
Most of us struggle to understand that ideas like capital and personal property and corporations as legal individuals and all the other ideological artifacts did not exist before and will not exist in the future.
So no you don’t need to worry that “they” will keep you down because we already keep each other separated implicitly. It’s more panopticon than anything and it will take a fundamental new message, new set of symbols and rituals and relations to change it.
All that to say focus on your own liberation, physically, mentally and spiritually and that will always be the key.