Beautiful and heart wrenching story.
I am just one month behind you in my crypto journey but have been blessed with a far easier path, supported by my wonderful wife from the first ZEC mined on one of ours MacBooks, through having 36 high end GPUs strewn over our balcony pushing hot air inside, to the far more civilised worlds of blogging and gaming to earn.

But I feel the same way as you about fiat and the existing system, despite having been successful in that system in the past.