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We are all _ NOW!!!! - an alternate view of history · Prompt Air

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  Welcome to the Deep Dive. Today, we are digging
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  into a source document called the Alan Curtis
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  Protocol, and it offers a completely new way
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  of looking at American history from 1946 right
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  up to today. It's a dense read, for sure. But
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  our mission here is really to unpack its core
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  argument. The protocol says that our old categories
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  for society, things like race or even how we
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  define capital, are, you know, they're outdated.
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  So what should we use instead? It suggests we
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  should analyze two basic units. The first is
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  CHITs, which are just units of social capital.
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  Earn trust. Okay, and the second? Subsidies.
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  And that's your level of access to official state
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  infrastructure. Think banks, city services, that
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  kind of thing. And the takeaway from all this
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  is, well, it's genuinely shocking. It connects
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  the Great Migration directly to the gig economy.
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  Exactly. The protocol states that the whole era
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  of the white subsidy, you know, that built -in
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  expectation of structural security, is over it's
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  ended and we've entered a new age the age of
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  the universal chit holder which leads to its
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  most dramatic conclusion we are all black now
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  what does that mean precisely it means that the
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  economic precarity the reliance on informal labor
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  Being locked out of the main banking system.
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  And additions historically reserved for the black
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  underclass. Right. The protocol argues those
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  conditions have now been universalized to almost
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  everyone through modern finance. That is a radical
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  reframing. So to understand that, the source
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  takes us back to the architect of this original
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  system, a man named Nimrod Booker Allen. Yeah,
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  in the early 20th century. What Nimrod Allen
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  did in Columbus, starting around 1917 with the
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  Urban League, is just fascinating. And the protocol
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  reinterprets that work. It does. It sees the
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  Urban League as a kind of clearinghouse for social
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  chits. It was essentially the only central ledger
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  of trust available. So for a migrant arriving
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  with nothing. A letter of recommendation from
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  Allen was like their Genesis block. It was the
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  first verifiable proof of their character, which
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  they could then trade for a job or a place to
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  live. He was literally building a system of trust
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  to bypass systemic exclusion. Precisely. And
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  he didn't just stop with paper. Look at the big
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  Walnut Country Club he founded in 1936. Which
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  wasn't just about leisure. Not at all. The source
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  calls it volumetric reclamation. It was a physical
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  space that proved their internal chit ledger
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  had real purchasing power, completely separate
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  from the white subsidy system that shut them
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  out. So from the social ledger, we move to the
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  financial engine of this world, the underground
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  numbers racket or policy wheel. Wait, are you
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  saying the protocol treats a gambling ring like
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  a sophisticated financial system? It does. Absolutely.
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  It frames the policy wheel as an early decentralized
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  finance or DeFi protocol, one built entirely
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  on that trust density. A DeFi protocol. Yeah.
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  But here's the twist. The algorithm that determined
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  the winning numbers. How did that work? It was
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  ironically pegged to the daily totals from the
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  New York Stock Exchange. No way. A parasitic
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  link to Wall Street? It was the only way for
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  a black resident to get a lump sum liquidity
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  event. You know, a $600 jackpot that no bank
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  would ever lend them. And the runner, the person
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  collecting the bets, was the essential trust
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  node holding it all together. And the proof that
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  this system actually worked. The 1947 blizzard.
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  It was the perfect stress test. The official
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  systems failed. Completely. The white subsidy,
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  city, plows, banks, it all froze. But the black
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  shit network, relying on runners, on pedestrian
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  -scale neighborhoods, it showed much higher resilience.
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  Commerce kept going on informal credit. High
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  trust beat subsidized infrastructure. So let's
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  connect that to now, the period from, say, 2010
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  to today. How does that shit -based economy relate
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  to our current lives? Well, the protocol is blunt.
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  The gig economy is just a digital replication
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  of that day labor structure. But for everyone
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  now. For everyone. The worker across all demographics
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  is basically a subcontractor paid in digital
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  chits app credits. Wages with no pension, no
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  security. That old promise of the subsidy has
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  evaporated. Which brings us to the final piece.
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  The 2025 Genius Act. It's all about regulating
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  stable coins, our modern digital chits. This
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  part is critical. The act formalizes the whole
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  informal economy. It gives stability to the universal
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  chit holder, which sounds good. But there's a
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  catch. A huge catch. It prohibits the issuers,
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  the big banks, the tech giants, from paying any
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  interest to the people actually holding the stable
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  coins. So who gets the interest on all that money?
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  The issuers capture it. It's called the float.
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  The interest earned on the massive reserves backing
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  the stable coins. The worker gets stability,
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  but the centralized issuer gets all the profit.
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  So what's the ultimate conclusion here? What
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  does this all mean? The protocol concludes the
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  struggle was never really about race or even
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  just money. It was always and still is about
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  access to control. Control over the ledger. So
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  the history of the segregated economy was just
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  a rehearsal for the global gig economy we're
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  all in now. And Nimrod Allen's lesson seems clearer
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  than ever. The chit holder outnumbers the subsidy
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  distributor. So for all this new unified class
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  of chit holders, how can we organize our collective
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  trust density to reclaim the volume that's being
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  captured by the issuers? That's something to
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  carry with you until the next deep dive.