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8/5/2025, 4:20:12 PM
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8/5/2025, 12:31:18 PM
>Okaaaay welcome back to Gary’s Economics.
>So you’ve got this new Coinbase advert, right? And everyone’s losing their minds. ‘How dare they portray Britain like that? Rats! Mould! High inflation! No jobs!’
And I’m watching it thinking… that’s not a parody. That’s literally my inbox. That’s what people message me every single day. ‘Gary, my rent’s gone up again.’ ‘Gary, I’m working two jobs and still can’t save.’ ‘Gary, is it normal to live with black mould and pay £1,500 a month for it?’
>Coinbase didn’t exaggerate Britain. If anything, they softened it. There were no food banks in that advert. No zero-hour contracts. No 2-bed flats with 6 people in them. They didn’t even show a Tory MP telling you it’s your fault for not budgeting properly.
>What Coinbase has done, and this is the funny bit, is they’ve accidentally told the truth. And people can’t handle it. Because when it comes from me, or from young people on TikTok, or from some 27-year-old in Manchester saying, ‘I can’t live like this anymore,’ everyone ignores it. But when a billion-dollar American tech company says it? Suddenly it’s a scandal.
>And let me be clear. I’m not here to sell you Bitcoin. I’ve said for years: crypto isn’t going to save poor people. The economy is rigged, and putting your last 500 quid into a coin with a dog on it isn’t a strategy it’s desperation.
>But what does it say about Britain, when a crypto company looks more honest about the state of the economy than your own government? Than your own media?
>Maybe the problem isn’t the advert. Maybe the problem is that it looks exactly like where we live.
>So you’ve got this new Coinbase advert, right? And everyone’s losing their minds. ‘How dare they portray Britain like that? Rats! Mould! High inflation! No jobs!’
And I’m watching it thinking… that’s not a parody. That’s literally my inbox. That’s what people message me every single day. ‘Gary, my rent’s gone up again.’ ‘Gary, I’m working two jobs and still can’t save.’ ‘Gary, is it normal to live with black mould and pay £1,500 a month for it?’
>Coinbase didn’t exaggerate Britain. If anything, they softened it. There were no food banks in that advert. No zero-hour contracts. No 2-bed flats with 6 people in them. They didn’t even show a Tory MP telling you it’s your fault for not budgeting properly.
>What Coinbase has done, and this is the funny bit, is they’ve accidentally told the truth. And people can’t handle it. Because when it comes from me, or from young people on TikTok, or from some 27-year-old in Manchester saying, ‘I can’t live like this anymore,’ everyone ignores it. But when a billion-dollar American tech company says it? Suddenly it’s a scandal.
>And let me be clear. I’m not here to sell you Bitcoin. I’ve said for years: crypto isn’t going to save poor people. The economy is rigged, and putting your last 500 quid into a coin with a dog on it isn’t a strategy it’s desperation.
>But what does it say about Britain, when a crypto company looks more honest about the state of the economy than your own government? Than your own media?
>Maybe the problem isn’t the advert. Maybe the problem is that it looks exactly like where we live.
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