Alexander Lorenzo argues that government and financial websites use deliberately confusing interfaces to control access to crucial data. Most major financial events get only thousands of YouTube views because the information is buried in jargon and complexity, keeping profits concentrated among a few.
You can actually control people by the user interface. When I was doing like really, uh, basic crypto research, I used to go on these, uh, the government websites to look at things like CPI, interest rates, and stuff like that. And it's almost like the website was created like 20 years ago. It was extremely difficult to comprehend. The words were crazy. It didn't work how— it was extremely not user-friendly. I don't know if you guys ever seen, like for example, in some apps when you try to cancel your subscription, it's extremely difficult. Like, you can actually control people by the user interface. So when they make it extremely difficult to access, they make it annoying as heck, and it's old and not inspiring at all. Like, it's like, yeah, I truly believe that they put the information out as low as they possibly can so like no one understands it, and then they use the biggest words possible and do like the most annoying things. No press. The most important event in the last 100 years for finance, like, gets like, you know, 1,000 views max on YouTube. Like, it's just— it doesn't make sense. Like, it's crazy. So hey, I think it's— hey, look, bro, I love getting people in, but at the end of the day, we know, and that's all that matters. There will be a time where everybody knows, and then it won't be lucrative anymore.
