Catherine Bell contrasts ancient pyramid engineering with modern pyramid schemes, arguing we've lost technical knowledge while obsessing over consumer goods. She critiques how society forgot how to build real pyramids but invented financial scams with the same name.
Many people hear the word pyramid, they immediately think scheme. And that comes from the fact that somebody utilized skills and systems to outmaster the, the system, right? And so everybody hears pyramid, but guess what? We still don't know how to build the damn thing. So when I say pyramid, I think about the fact that our ability to do that level of development and design and technology is gone because we forgot it, right? So when I talk about it in the financial world, We have forgotten some financial tricks like building pyramids out of our cash. And we've done that because society says, oh, you gotta have a new car, new shoes, new, new house, new cat, new dog, like all these cool things.
