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The Last Assets They Can’t Devalue
Part 5
They can print more dollars. They can reset your mortgage. They can shift policy overnight.
But they can’t devalue skills that ship, trust that compounds, or time you control.
Real wealth isn’t numbers — it’s agency. The power to say no to fragile jobs, to bad trades, and to predatory terms.
What does that look like in reality?
Skills: a digital nomad coder in Argentina earns global dollars while local inflation runs 200%.
Reputation: a single recommendation can outlast 10 résumés. In crisis, people choose trust first.
Distribution: a newsletter list, a loyal customer base — direct lines that no algorithm can throttle.
Tools of production: a laptop, a 3D printer, a garden bed. Code, soil, words, machines.
Community: humans who pick up the phone. In 2020’s Covid era, neighbors — not institutions — delivered groceries.
Optionality: cash + time + low burn = choice. It buys the ability to wait without panic.
During a blackout, cash fades but community endures. During inflation, hard assets beat savings. During censorship, distribution matters more than credentials.
In this series, we began with the devaluation of the dollar.
But the real story is the revaluation of you.
🟨 Pick one asset above. Spend the next 12 months compounding it. When currencies wobble, you’ll stand. And you’ll be damn proud about it.
Don’t become the boiling frog that waits until it’s too late to leap.
By then, it’ll be too late.
—DOTD