The system is rigged against you.

If you do nothing with money but put it in the bank, your savings will steadily go down in purchasing power.

If you "get lucky" with a stock, the government will want 50% of the profits if you sell it within a year.

If you own real estate, you have to pay unrealized gains in the form of "property taxes".

If you do manage to match the money printer by an increased salary and investments, your tax rate will increase.

The system is designed to take as much as it can from anything you can extract.

No wonder people like a scarce asset that they can control completely and that they can take to some other government when the big print happens.