Tomorrow is International Labor Day. The origin of this holiday is not spring outings, vacations, or promotional vouchers, but the massive strike on May 1, 1886, by Chicago workers fighting for the "8-hour workday"—a rights struggle written in blood and fire.
But ironically, in today's era, which claims to prioritize "efficiency" and "freedom of employment," every May Day, there are always a few "economist influencers" who come out to advocate for the abolition of labor laws, full marketization, allowing "labor to be freely priced," and even call for the "abolition of minimum wage." In their world, labor should have no bottom line, employment relationships are merely transactions, capital can be infinitely squeezed, and workers can only "vote with their feet."
They package opinions with rational models, but their position never changes: they are not economists standing on the side of workers but theorists for capitalists.
As Lu Xun said: "All running dogs, though perhaps raised by a single capitalist, actually belong to all capitalists." They bark fiercely at the poor but are extremely docile when encountering the wealthy, waving the banner of so-called "market economy," while in fact dressing capital exploitation in a cloak of legitimacy.
The economic struggle is ultimately a struggle of human nature.
If we divide social production into three stages, it will be easier to see the problem:
Producing for oneself: In primitive times, humans worked for survival.
Producing for others: In agricultural and handicraft societies, I grow rice, and you weave cloth, exchanging what we have.
Producing for profit: In the capitalist era, producers are no longer concerned about whether someone needs it; they only care about whether it can be monetized, producing for "money" rather than for "people."
Thus, the most significant characteristics of the third phase—oversupply and war—are born.
Capitalists will not stop just because the market is saturated. They will:
Loans to expand production capacity.
Low-price dumping to wage price wars.
Using public opinion, advertising, and policies to promote forced consumption.
Even directly resorting to war to open markets.
Isn't this just like the current phenomenon of meme coins in the crypto market?
A pile of projects, tens of thousands of tokens, high-frequency daily issuance, explosive supply, competitive internal friction, and superficial narratives, even without value, rely on "hotspots," "communities," and "AI adding up to DAO" to create a story—anything that can attract buyers is valuable. Until no one is willing to pay, the bubble bursts.
This production logic is not more noble just because it is "Web3"; it is still the third phase of "producing for money"—capitalism, rather than humanism.
Stepping back from the meme war: what is truly scarce is not the concept but the boundaries.
In the crypto market, the biggest consensus has long been established: scarcity = the basis of value.
BTC, as the only asset with a fixed total supply (21 million), is the only consensus asset anchored by "natural laws." It cannot be minted like memes, does not rely on rhetoric or promotion, but maintains scarcity through code and mechanisms, like gold in the digital age—perhaps even better, as it is unverifiable, easily divisible, and can circulate globally.
The ultimate way out of market oversupply is not "who can issue more" but "who can hold onto the value anchor better."
Therefore, amidst all the excess, over-marketing, bubbles, and the narrative of chasing gains and losses, BTC's solid logic is becoming the true core of consensus again.
This point has already been clearly reflected in the data:
In the past 7 days, large addresses on-chain have been continuously increasing their holdings.
ETF capital inflows have reached a new high for the year.
The supply of stablecoins is rising, and prices are stable, indicating that funds are not fleeing but waiting for layout opportunities.
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All wealth games are a contest between capital and human nature.
Today's workers are not only working for a living but are also putting in "extra hours" to increase the capital of others.
He has to pay for his meals, rent, and entertainment himself.
Self-funded education, training, and equipment purchases.
The ultimate goal is to "do a bit more" to make the company's profits look better on paper.
This is an extremely bizarre negative-sum game.
If capitalists are madmen chasing memes, then workers are those who passively FOMO—watching screenshots in the group rise 100 times, getting excited, jumping into the market, getting cut, trapped, and disappearing.
So, what should the true "awakened ones" do?
It is not about escaping this era, nor is it about anger, but about repositioning your stance and choosing to stand on the other side of the trend.
Mlion.ai's advice: Be the one who makes money while standing in the system game.
The capital game plays on speed, leverage, and information asymmetry, while what workers lack is precisely the ability to obtain effective intelligence and rational judgment.
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We do not recommend that you chase every meme, but we can help you see clearly:
Which hotspots truly have funds pushing them?
Which projects are controlled by big players?
Which trends have been preemptively laid out by the main forces?
This is the tool that allows you to stand at a higher dimension.
May Day is the holiday for workers, but it should also become the starting point for the awakened.
Stop asking, who will save you?
True freedom is often not about avoiding capital, but about using its rules to turn the tables.
Like that summary:
"All surplus belongs to the big pie."
Those who understand this sentence are no longer anxious about the opportunity to get rich but choose to lie flat on the consensus anchor of Bitcoin, watching others rush, watching others roll, watching others crash.
And you, holding coins, observing, waiting for a turning point, using tools to gain insights into emotional cycles, and running ahead of the market.
Disclaimer: The above content is for informational sharing only and does not constitute any investment advice. The risks of digital asset investment are extremely high; please be sure to carefully assess your own risk tolerance.