❓Why the Yuppie Elite Still Dismiss Bitcoin

Despite high IQs and elite educations, many MBA grads and professionals still scoff at Bitcoin. This piece breaks down why.

✨ It starts with trust in the system

The most successful yuppies believe in the system they mastered—elite schools, jobs, promotions. Trusting that system makes it hard to accept Bitcoin’s core thesis: the system is broken.

🪙Bitcoin requires a worldview shift

Bitcoin maximalism demands a deep understanding of monetary policy, scarcity, and distrust in central banks. Most elite professionals never learned this—intentionally or not—and don’t have time to reeducate themselves.

📉Their heuristics reject it

Yuppies are trained to filter out scams quickly. Bitcoin’s early aesthetics and community trip every alarm—so they dismiss it without deeper research.

🗣️Social validation drives belief

In the yuppie world, ideas are trusted when other smart yuppies believe them. Bitcoin lacks that internal social signal, so it’s automatically “not worth your time.”

🔒Don’t trust, verify – to a fault

Ironically, their rationality keeps them out. They won’t buy until they fully understand—and they don’t trust anyone enough to bridge the gap.

❓ Why this matters

These are the people most insulated from Bitcoin’s upside—until it becomes too big to ignore. When they do join, it may be because their old system starts to fail.

Eventually, price will force belief. But it won’t be because of understanding.