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Person, worker, engineer, entrepreneur, inventor, writer
I was born in Seville, in the south of Spain. A kid from working-class parents. Hard-working. Honest. They were not perfect, but they taught me what they believed was good and bad. In the end, it doesn't matter what they say, because like any child, you end up copying almost everything your parents do, consciously or not. Also what your friends do (who do the same thing with respect to their parents), the environment, what you see on television or what you hear around. I, like most people, assumed things that were backward. Some fixed, immutable ideas that were not. Some concepts about hard work and scarce money, which were not either. I could have told you many things several years ago, like some colleagues do when they get together and complain about the state of things in general. That typical conversation that you forget when you return to work or your routine. But humans are very materialistic, when someone speaks to you from the results, from the place where you want to arrive, what they tell you sticks to your mind like chewing gum. I don't know from where you read or hear me, but I think I can talk to you like this now.
Money
That which almost all of us chase. Whether we like it or not, that's why most of us set the alarm, hopefully only from Monday to Friday. And what if I tell you that the flow of money is infinite, and that only a few people open and close the tap at will? Yes, it may sound like a joke, a cheap trick of a parlor. In fact, it's not magic, although as a system it's quite elaborate.
Is for you?
In these pages I'm going to tell you how this happens. Chewed. In street language, and with as few technicalities as possible. You don't need to know anything beforehand to understand it. Just read and not much else. In fact, I've narrated it thinking that the only thing you know how to do with money is earn it, save it, and spend it. Not much more, and nothing less. Like the vast majority.
I go to the point. No filler content. No straw. We are just on time and we are not for stories.
And what do I tell you?
I'm going to tell you what seigniorage is and who does it. How money is issued and how it is destroyed. How a Central Bank works. How a commercial bank works. How most governments choose their own well-being at the expense of the people who live in it. How countries compete with each other and use their currency as a demolition ball. What inflation really is and how it affects us differently, depending on each person's own factors. And gold, what it means and the traps that surround it, which you'd better know how to identify.
I teach you to understand the mess. To start learning how to defend yourself. To see where they're cheating you.
This is the first of several, but with only this one, your life will not be the same.
What am I not telling you?
If you're waiting for investment recommendations, this is not your book. Not yet. If you're expecting to become a millionaire right now, that's not it either. There are no magic pills or shortcuts here. What you will find are the economic pitfalls in which we usually get trapped, and without the possibility of escape.
Convince me
Look. They're not fooling me anymore. What I tell you is part of what has allowed me to escape this system and be free from it. This work is the first of several, where I will eventually tell you everything.
I don't know who you are, but I know that 99% of the population is on the bad side of this game. Let me make it very clear to you: if you don't read it, you lose out.
