Here's the thing about financial literacy—those at the top have every reason to keep you in the dark. Once you truly grasp how money works, how systems are designed to extract value, and where real opportunity lies, the spell breaks. You stop blindly following advice. You stop believing the narrative they've spent millions constructing. You start asking harder questions about inflation, asset allocation, decentralization, and who actually benefits from the status quo. Knowledge becomes power. And power, by definition, threatens the old order. That's why financial education is never the mainstream conversation—because an informed public is an independent public.