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In the third decade of the 21st century, the global financial landscape is characterized by an unprecedented velocity of capital. Money, once a tangible store of value represented by gold, silver, or printed currency, has largely evaporated into the ether of digital code. We live in an era of "frictionless" commerce, where a wave of a smartphone or a glance at a biometric scanner is sufficient to transfer wealth. While this technological evolution has maximized convenience, it has simultaneously eroded the psychological tether between the earner and their earnings. The result is a pervasive condition of financial dissociation: we spend without feeling, accumulate debt without realizing, and experience a chronic, low-level anxiety regarding our economic futures despite having more sophisticated management tools than any generation prior.