November 29, 2025 • 6 mins
We’ve been told the check is in the mail, but the bank account is empty. We’ve been told the country is "broke." But what if the only thing stopping us from housing, healthcare, and reparations isn't money, but a lack of collective imagination?
In this episode, we strip away the illusions of the "Gold Standard" and expose the truth: Money is a faith system. And right now, we are tithing to a system that doesn’t believe in us.
Join Brother haatim as we explore the "Trojan Horse" strategy—how we can use the reality of Fiat currency and Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) to smuggle justice into the budget. We aren’t asking for permission; we’re talking about how to wrap liberation inside policy.
In this episode:
The Monopoly Myth: Why "affordability" is a political lie, not a mathematical fact.
Currency as Belief: From the Dollar to Bitcoin, it’s all just energy shaped by consensus.
The Trojan Horse: How universal programs can serve as the vessel for reparative justice.
Stop buying the lie of scarcity. It’s time to claim the currency of courage.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/gye-nyame-journey-show--179352/support.
In this episode, we strip away the illusions of the "Gold Standard" and expose the truth: Money is a faith system. And right now, we are tithing to a system that doesn’t believe in us.
Join Brother haatim as we explore the "Trojan Horse" strategy—how we can use the reality of Fiat currency and Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) to smuggle justice into the budget. We aren’t asking for permission; we’re talking about how to wrap liberation inside policy.
In this episode:
The Monopoly Myth: Why "affordability" is a political lie, not a mathematical fact.
Currency as Belief: From the Dollar to Bitcoin, it’s all just energy shaped by consensus.
The Trojan Horse: How universal programs can serve as the vessel for reparative justice.
Stop buying the lie of scarcity. It’s time to claim the currency of courage.
Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/gye-nyame-journey-show--179352/support.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Here we go with another episode of no frills, no thrills,
just brother high tim. Let's be real. Most of us
were handed economic game rules from a rigged monopoly board
where some folks started with boardwalk, and we were told
to be grateful for Baltic Avenue. But what if we
(00:25):
told you that the game has changed. What if the
only thing standing between us and what we truly need housing, healthcare, childcare,
and yes, reparations is not money but our collective imagination.
Let's break it down. The money you carry ain't go back.
(00:46):
It's not silver stamped, it's not even real in a
tangible sense. What we deal in today is fiat currency,
a Latin rooted term meaning by decree, meaning it has
value because we believe it does, not because it's back,
but because it's blessed by the trust in Uncle Sam
(01:11):
in the store we all agree to live by. This
is why when folks holler about return to the gold standard,
they're not chasing freedom. They're clinging to their chains. A
gold back dollar isn't safer as smaller. Limiting money to
a physical substance also limits possibilities imagination and innovation. It
(01:35):
chains human creativity to a metal we don't need to
touch in order to create fam. The cell phone you
use to read this born of dreams paid for by
printing money and manifested through belief in the system that
made that printing possible. Believe it's currency. Currency is belief
(02:00):
of motion. That's get even more controversial. Bitcoin is more
real or no more real than a dollar. It's a
math back belief computer code of scarcity that only exists
because folks believe in it, just like religion, just like stocks,
just like brands. Money today, whether crypto or cash, is
(02:24):
just energy shaped by consensus. So why do we let
people in power keep lying saying we can't afford basic
rights like healthcare or or universal childcare. That's ridiculous. Let's
clear it up. The United States is a sovereign currency issue.
It prints the money. Taxes don't pay for the budget.
(02:47):
They control inflation and behavior. They are a tool, not
a limitation. So the question ain't can't we afford it?
The real question is do we have a to demand it?
Here's where it gets beautifully subversive. Imagine a social contract
(03:08):
where everyone has access to free health care, universal childcare,
quality housing, tuition, free education, livable basic income. Now pause
and act yourself. If all that was successible, would the
frightful reparations be different? See Reparations of spiritual debt. But
(03:30):
to get the conversation truly moving, we might need to
trojan horse that energy. We might need to build collective
programs that serve everyone but contain within them the righteous
payload of reparative justice. We call for housing, but inside
it's the correction of redlining. We call for universal health care,
(03:52):
but inside is justice for black maternal mortality and medical apartheid.
We call for basic income, but inside is a check
longer do for stolen labor. The outer horse looks neutral,
but when the door's open, ooh, reparation soldiers step out.
That's strategy, not surrender, the self mastering. When America wants war,
(04:16):
they don't act. If they can't afford it, they declare it.
They print what they need, mobilize, invest and fight. So
why is it when it comes to healing, housing or
historical justice, we act like we broke because we bunt
into the delusion that scarcely is real, that's what we need,
(04:39):
that what we need is impossible, that our suffering is
a result of bad math rather than cowardly politics. But
here's the kicker. Reparations aren't unaffordable, they're just unpopular with
those in power. We say this with love and urgency.
Don't get hypnotized by financial jargon and policy theater. Learn
(05:04):
how the game works. Modern monetary theority theory or MMT
is it utopian dreaming is how the current system already operates,
just not in your favor. So flip it, demand it.
Use collective power like the printing press. It is if
(05:27):
enough of us believe differently, if we build boldly, and
if we raploration inside strategy, we'll trojan horse our way
to freedom, not by actioning for more, but by stripping
away the lies that told us we couldn't have it.
Now here's my call to inactions, and you always know
(05:50):
we're doing inaction here right Africa proverb says, the man
who carries too much cannot climb the mountain. Before we
demand anything from outside, we must release what limits us within.
What old beliefs about money are you still carrying? What
political lies have you swallowed about scarcity? When internal seelings
(06:15):
are you still bowing under? Let them go, not because
it's easy, but but because it's time don't do more,
Just stop believing the myth that there's not enough. The
ancestors will meet you in that silence.
Here we go with another episode of no frills, no thrills,
just brother high tim. Let's be real. Most of us
were handed economic game rules from a rigged monopoly board
where some folks started with boardwalk, and we were told
to be grateful for Baltic Avenue. But what if we
(00:25):
told you that the game has changed. What if the
only thing standing between us and what we truly need housing, healthcare, childcare,
and yes, reparations is not money but our collective imagination.
Let's break it down. The money you carry ain't go back.
(00:46):
It's not silver stamped, it's not even real in a
tangible sense. What we deal in today is fiat currency,
a Latin rooted term meaning by decree, meaning it has
value because we believe it does, not because it's back,
but because it's blessed by the trust in Uncle Sam
(01:11):
in the store we all agree to live by. This
is why when folks holler about return to the gold standard,
they're not chasing freedom. They're clinging to their chains. A
gold back dollar isn't safer as smaller. Limiting money to
a physical substance also limits possibilities imagination and innovation. It
(01:35):
chains human creativity to a metal we don't need to
touch in order to create fam. The cell phone you
use to read this born of dreams paid for by
printing money and manifested through belief in the system that
made that printing possible. Believe it's currency. Currency is belief
(02:00):
of motion. That's get even more controversial. Bitcoin is more
real or no more real than a dollar. It's a
math back belief computer code of scarcity that only exists
because folks believe in it, just like religion, just like stocks,
just like brands. Money today, whether crypto or cash, is
(02:24):
just energy shaped by consensus. So why do we let
people in power keep lying saying we can't afford basic
rights like healthcare or or universal childcare. That's ridiculous. Let's
clear it up. The United States is a sovereign currency issue.
It prints the money. Taxes don't pay for the budget.
(02:47):
They control inflation and behavior. They are a tool, not
a limitation. So the question ain't can't we afford it?
The real question is do we have a to demand it?
Here's where it gets beautifully subversive. Imagine a social contract
(03:08):
where everyone has access to free health care, universal childcare,
quality housing, tuition, free education, livable basic income. Now pause
and act yourself. If all that was successible, would the
frightful reparations be different? See Reparations of spiritual debt. But
(03:30):
to get the conversation truly moving, we might need to
trojan horse that energy. We might need to build collective
programs that serve everyone but contain within them the righteous
payload of reparative justice. We call for housing, but inside
it's the correction of redlining. We call for universal health care,
(03:52):
but inside is justice for black maternal mortality and medical apartheid.
We call for basic income, but inside is a check
longer do for stolen labor. The outer horse looks neutral,
but when the door's open, ooh, reparation soldiers step out.
That's strategy, not surrender, the self mastering. When America wants war,
(04:16):
they don't act. If they can't afford it, they declare it.
They print what they need, mobilize, invest and fight. So
why is it when it comes to healing, housing or
historical justice, we act like we broke because we bunt
into the delusion that scarcely is real, that's what we need,
(04:39):
that what we need is impossible, that our suffering is
a result of bad math rather than cowardly politics. But
here's the kicker. Reparations aren't unaffordable, they're just unpopular with
those in power. We say this with love and urgency.
Don't get hypnotized by financial jargon and policy theater. Learn
(05:04):
how the game works. Modern monetary theority theory or MMT
is it utopian dreaming is how the current system already operates,
just not in your favor. So flip it, demand it.
Use collective power like the printing press. It is if
(05:27):
enough of us believe differently, if we build boldly, and
if we raploration inside strategy, we'll trojan horse our way
to freedom, not by actioning for more, but by stripping
away the lies that told us we couldn't have it.
Now here's my call to inactions, and you always know
(05:50):
we're doing inaction here right Africa proverb says, the man
who carries too much cannot climb the mountain. Before we
demand anything from outside, we must release what limits us within.
What old beliefs about money are you still carrying? What
political lies have you swallowed about scarcity? When internal seelings
(06:15):
are you still bowing under? Let them go, not because
it's easy, but but because it's time don't do more,
Just stop believing the myth that there's not enough. The
ancestors will meet you in that silence.
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