Good morning @teamsteem, I'm definitely late to the party here. I like the history shift you've taken, the more information we learn about the past can be armed as knowledge walking into the future. I'm also humbled that my quote made it into your post. I was not informed and was met with breathtaking surprise- if you only saw my face!

It's unbearable most days to know that public corporations, along with the hidden elite have been able to control everyone for this long. I got to learn a great deal on how emperors, and kings from Egypt, to Rome, the Middle East up to North America controlled their population from Wold Civilization I in school.

Aside from the Catholic Church and several other corrupt entities leading up to the current day, the past has also seen many people who realized that the wealthy few have shot entire countries, nations and states into poverty and chose to challenge them so that the fruits of their oppositions could be felt by their people's future generations.

This is where I feel we still are today with Centralized Government. No one wants to stand against or stray away from the secretly arbitrary laws that only serve to keep us as people in place. We've given our voices and abilities away to those who aim to capitalize on our efforts. We work harder and longer days, only to find that we afford less than we could previously.

These powers that we don't see, they don't care about us, but only for the work we can do for them. Maintaining their power by printing more money along the way and raising prices to deter anyone from attempting to step out of the grid they control. Prices for food, housing and necessities are increasing every year, it would absolutely be insane to try to survive without bending to their will.

That's one of the major ways the government keeps us slaving. The fear of not being able to provide for ourselves, our families is what makes us say; "Okay, we'll do it your way because it's the only way to survive." It's a bluff. With Decentralized currency on the rise, legislation is looking for every way to make laws to crack down on it. Why? Because a system was made that they cannot control.

If there was no threat of power being brought back as a true democracy, there wouldn't be these new laws regarding coin exchanges, use, and distribution of cryptocurrency. We're here, and in a way many of the people involved in decentralization technologies, even us as Steemians, don't want to be their pawns, their slaves anymore.

The scarcity of resources is a clever illusion that has slowly been unraveling throughout history as time and time again has shown us that the people at the very top, are corrupt and control all resources. By controlling the vast majority of the available (and to be made) currency, they can choose exactly how much everyone makes, and raise prices whenever they feel.

People are sacrificed in mass every day so that these elite can remain in power. I am out here to take a shot at not playing the game so carefully set up for us all to lose. Now, I'm not the confrontational I'm gonna fight you type- but I know that each of us has the power to take our freedoms back, and live in a world of equality where what you really put in is what you receive, where everyone helps everyone else and food, wealth... happiness is abundant for everyone.

If this world doesn't exist, we can create it.

Always aim to inspire.