monetary inflation is a pretty good example that over a long enough time frame with only a little bit of theft, the reality of poverty is barely noticeable, i.e. elusive.

For example, if people start living to only 30 years old, and inflation has a long enough half-life (like 36 years at 2% inflation), then the 30-yrs long life is more or less tolerable. However, if the people live to 60yo and the inflation has like 7.2 year half-life, it becomes pretty hard on the mind, body, and spirit.

i have been thinking how money is an illusion, and time is also an illusion, which makes the saying "time is money" doubly fake. however, if either time or money is indeed an illusion, then money could come to represent time, which is the ultimate psyop of the matrix.

think about it - life is measured in the number of successfully productive years lived, people work 9-5 jobs, there are many annual holidays. the sun used to be worshipped with its daily cycles and the equinoxes and the solstices.

is money a psyop disguised as time or vice-versa? maybe i'm overthinking this.

All is illusion.