Can you imagine all the productivity gains made by Apple throughout the years, all the optimizations in supply chains, seeking out cheap labor and still forced to raise prices.
"Regulators". Think about what that means. It's essentially a mechanism to stop the free market of exchange which is detrimental to the debt based system we live in. To stop this, everything you do has to be tracked and no privacy is allowed.
Getting familiar with AI and even building with it is valuable in itself. Every beginning of a new process takes time but eventually you will build systems that will save you time.
True anonymity should not require a token that sacrifices base-layer security, but must instead be built in secondary layers—like Fedimint or Cashu, on top of Bitcoin's decentralized and secure foundation.
Confessions of an Economic Hitman is a book with a similar theme. A guy trained by NSA to be sent to poor countries, making deals through false projections with the goal to extract their natural resources.