What Every Parent Needs to Tell Their Children About Money: Crossing the Rubicon

Your great-grandparents could buy a year at MIT for four hundred dollars. Today it costs sixty-two thousand. The buildings are the same buildings. What changed was the dollar. And nobody told you why.This is the book for the conversation at the edge of the birthday party that turns, for the fourth time this year, to how nobody can afford anything anymore. It traces the story of money from the limestone wheels of Yap Island to the Federal Reserve, from Rome's debased coins to the $39 trillion national debt, and explains what Bitcoin actually is in language that does not require a computer science degree.Brian Connelly is a parent of four, a technology consultant for over twenty years, and a clinical social worker by training. He has worked inside the New York Stock Exchange, GE Asset Management, and MIT, where he paid for a Bitcoin course using Bitcoin. He is also the author of How to Keep Your Bitcoin Alive and Well, Alice in Bitcoin Land, and Mara and the Stones of Stonewater.This is not a political book. It is a book about physics - the physics of trust, the mechanics of how value gets created and destroyed, and what you can do about it before your children inherit the bill.