Same mechanism. Different cage. Wage slavery: You expend real energy—your time, your focus, your body—for 8, 10, 12 hours. That energy is real. It's gone. You can't get it back. Then they hand you digits that have lost 3% of their "value" since last year because they printed more. You traded finite life for infinite digits. They created the digits from nothing. That's the scam in one sentence.