It's a slow burn.

The US is being asset stripped, slowly but surely. To quote Hemingway in his 1926 novel, The Sun Also Rises:

"How did you go bankrupt?" Bill asked.
"Two ways," Mike said. "Gradually and then suddenly."

We're all feeling the pinch from that long time vehicle of wealth distribution, inflation. We feel it with every purchase we make. It can be caused by many factors but the end result is the same. Ask yourself this: Where does the extra money go when prices rise because of inflation? The money doesn't just disappear. Who benefits?

Inflation is just one aspect of the fleecing we are being subjected to, albeit probably the most obvious as we live it everyday. It's a slow drain.

That is the "gradually" aspect of Hemingway's quote in the context of this essay.

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