This is such an eye-opening breakdown of how interest and money creation work! The gold example really drives home how unsustainable compound interest is long-term.
Your point about Coca-Cola stock growth being "paper gains" rather than real value creation is brilliant. It's funny how we accept these financial illusions as normal when nature clearly shows us exponential growth always hits limits.
The knight and coins analogy perfectly illustrates why interest-based systems are mathematically doomed to fail. Bitcoin definitely forces us to rethink these outdated financial concepts in a way that aligns with reality.
Great post - you've managed to make complex monetary theory both understandable and entertaining! The house example showing how savings get destroyed by inflation is particularly painful to think about.
I am glad the examples worked for you.
They actually do not work for everyone.
When enough people realize how evil money printing is, we will march on the Fed and burn it to the ground. The Fed's owners being secret is not a mistake.