The Inherited Debt

If you feel like you are running on a treadmill that keeps getting faster while the floor keeps falling away, you aren’t imagining it. The truth is much simpler: You are born as an involuntary indentured servant to a master you didn’t choose.

Historically, indentured servants traded years of their future labor to repay a specific debt. Today, the U.S. government borrows trillions against future tax revenue, which is effectively your future labor, your time, the essence of your existence.

As of May 2026, the national debt has surged past $39 trillion. This means every child born today inherits a debt share of approximately $116,500 before they can even speak. You are born as a co-signer to a loan you never authorized, forced to spend your life servicing the interest.

To see the “Invisible Cage” clearly, we must look at how the courts have legalized this “unbalanced contract”:

• The Claim on Your Body: In Arver v. United States (1918), the Supreme Court ruled that the government has the right to compel military service, stating it is a citizen’s “noble duty” to serve.

• The Denial of Your Foundation: In DeShaney v. Winnebago County (1989), the Court ruled the State has no affirmative duty to protect you from harm.

This is the ultimate hypocrisy: The State claims it is too small to ensure you have food or shelter, but big enough to mandate you sacrifice your life for a war you don’t believe in. Of course, you can refuse, in which case you’ll be confined and… provided with food, water, and shelter.

The 13th Amendment was intended to abolish involuntary servitude—the state of being forced to work by legal coercion. Yet, when you are born into a system that controls the money you must use and then devalues that money through inflation to pay back debts you didn’t create, you have been effectively re-indentured.

Abraham Lincoln famously said, “As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master”. He believed the purpose of democracy was to end perpetual bondage.

The Hard Reset is the realization that a “Shared Agreement” which demands your life but offers no foundation for survival is not a Union—it is indentured servitude. We are reclaiming our time.

Give a Deuce. Reclaim your Time.