A new economic system is not just built; it must be *chosen*. The VDES is a tool for the 99% to peacefully reclaim power from a legacy system built by and for the 1%. The strategy is not financial, but political and democratic.
1. The Core Conflict: Awareness
The primary obstacle to a fair system is the 1% whose power is based entirely on the accumulation and control of capital—the very things VDES makes obsolete. Their wealth is an artifact of a broken, inflationary, debt-based system. Our first strategy is **Awareness**: making the 99% conscious of the fact that this system is holding humanity back, and that *capital is not the true deciding factor—the majority is*.
2. The Weapon: The 99% Majority
Our greatest weapon is not capital; it is **democratic choice**. The 99% represents a majority in any truly democratic system. We do not need to ask the 1% for permission to change, nor do we need to take their wealth. We simply need to *choose*, collectively and democratically, to adopt a new protocol.
By voting to adopt VDES, the 99% can make the 1%'s hoarded capital irrelevant. It's a peaceful revolution, a collective migration to a fairer, more stable operating system where their old money has no power.
3. The Geopolitical Paradox: The Eastern Lever
The 99% in the West are politically gridlocked, their democracies captured by the 1%. This leads to a powerful, poetic irony: the "not-so-democratic" East is in the best position to make this highly democratic system a reality.
Eastern nations, with their strong state capacity and strategic, long-term vision, can "abuse" their top-down structures to achieve a democratic end. A single, decisive vote by their leadership could implement VDES for their entire region, effectively casting a "majority vote" for their 99% and leapfrogging the West. This action would provide the sovereign foothold and precedent for the rest of the world to follow.
4. Bootstrapping the Movement: Seed Funding
This revolution, like any, requires initial resources. This "seed money" is needed to fund the awareness campaigns, the diplomatic missions, and the core protocol development. This funding does not need to come from the 1%.
It can be bootstrapped by the 99% themselves, using clever tactics like the "Story Store": a service that recovers "ghost capital" (lost crypto) from the old system and uses it to finance the creation of the new one. This is one of many ways the 99% can self-fund their own liberation.