Modern life is full of things that are not difficult to understand on a level of fundamentals, but become increasingly complex in layers of jargon in their modern manifestation. You can reduce some action such as buying a car to an exchange of a value store (money) for an item (the car). But if you take the time to investigate just what the US Dollar is (or any other widely used currency) and then furthermore what the things you are buying are, you may find that we've come a long way from getting some coins as payment and using those to buy bread and olive oil.

What is the US Dollar?

Many people have expounded at length on this topic in great detail so I won't deal with that here. Rather, I will focus on some key areas in which what we think of as "money" is not some "ideal value storage".

Modern fiat (trust-based) currencies are debt based. They rely on rich and powerful people engaged in predatory loaning practices. Money can be printed ¹, and high-powered politicians and unelected officials will leverage their powers to increase the integers in their bank accounts without creating anything of value (e.g. doing work).

Gradually, we're digitalizing money. Many people never deal with cash at all and few own significant amounts of gold ². Instead, we're being forced to do all commerce in a trackable, highly abstracted way that is looking more and more like "social credit"—the idea that by being a good citizen you get little tokens to spend at a institution approved store. In a very simplified example we can express this like so,

From REAL(ER) MONEY to MONOPOLY MONEY to VIDEO GAMES

gold -> silver -> paper money      -> fiat currency -> social credit
                  (backed by gold,                     (weaponized
                   lending)                             nanny state)

I do a bit of stock trading (I use no technical analysis; I just buy and sell in a "swing trade"-ish style based on who I think is making money, mostly tech stocks). It seems like a similar experience to how people might play these really complex video games like EVE Online. ³

What is a car?

There is a sense in which a car is a useful tool you can buy. Especially if you live in a more rural area, a car can be used to move people and items, to get from place to place quickly and even to shelter you from the elements in very bad weather.

In cities, cars are less useful. For many city-dwellers, other transportation options exist that are easier and require less dealing with liabilities/problems. If you bought a fast car, you aren't even allowed to drive fast. A car is like a jail cell for listening to advertisements, podcasts or both while emitting smog. Or, if you buy an electric car, you can contribute to gathering up all sorts of toxins in a concentrated area (e.g. batteries).

Many people use cars as status symbols. Generally, this is unrelated to the usefulness of cars as articulated in the first paragraph of this section.

Buying cars with USD

I was watching some Sam Hyde ⁴—who has experience with cars—on YouTube. Meanwhile I was doing some research into money. That is the direct reason for writing this reflection on cars and money.

In summary, the USD is largely fake and vice powered and talk about how it "stabilizes world economies" and stuff, I think, is simply globalist propaganda/talking points to further erode your monetary autonomy. Money is not fundamentally bad, but what we typically recognize as "money" today is far from a stable value store. ⁵ A useful but potentially dangerous tool has been perverted into an instrument for enslavement.

Cars too can be a very useful tool. Or, like smartphones, computers, and many other devices, they can be the means by which we entrap ourselves into more and more stupidity and time wasting and resource squandering. Paritcularly revealing is the use of cars in cities, in which very little utility is to be gained from going beyond the most basic functional cars (used Toyota Corolla or something similar).