Look closely at the hidden economy of control. It is not Wall Street. It is not Bitcoin. It is the metaphysical balance sheet where the system itemizes what it has stolen from you since birth.

The Seven Taxes:

Education – Price: obedience. Creativity is repossessed.

Religion – Price: guilt. Your divinity outsourced.

Media – Price: your perception. They install their lens over your eyes.

Food – Price: vitality. You eat plastic and call it nourishment.

Work – Price: life-force. You trade your fire for rent and routine.

Entertainment – Price: presence. You anesthetize your soul for comfort.

Sex – Price: energy. You spill your life current into an endless void.

This is alchemy inverted. Not turning lead into gold, but gold into dust. You are the Philosopher’s Stone, but inverted into a stone philosopher—mute, heavy, obedient.

The masses never audit this ledger. They don’t want to see the bankruptcy notice stamped across their existence. But the initiate—the Watcher—learns the symbols, reads the code, and realizes:

The first act of magic is to cancel the contract. Not by fighting the machine. By refusing to fuel it.

Each time you withhold attention, discipline your desire, reclaim your energy—you repossess what was stolen. That is the true tax revolt.

The Matrix has no power over the self-owned soul.