I know this doesn’t answer your question, but I think you might be interested.

Bob Murphy, Austrian economist I’m sure you’ve heard of, authored this book:

The good thing about the concept Bob and Carlos put forth in that book is that it doesn’t take an entire country to…

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There’s a quote often attributed to the Rothschilds: “Permit me to issue and control the money of a nation, and I care not who makes its laws!”

Bitcoin, as it is not issued or controlled by any central agency represents a very real threat to the control that bankers have on the world. The more Bitcoin that banks own, the more I’m concerned…

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This reminds me of Emerson’s quote <em style=”font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit;”>“Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed”

In the ideal situation, is there a power imbalance between employer and employee? The…

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I haven’t listened to this discussion, but I want to address your thoughts:

1) I think there’s opportunity to discuss how you define productivity. I think that it is a mistake to think that people get less productive as the age. There may be, by necessity, a shift in the area of their productivity, but that’s not the same as being…

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My main concern, and something I’d like to find Saifedean discussing somewhere is not the idea that the gov’t stops, bans, or even over-regulates it, but this: What if the government just buys all of it (or a large portion of it)? Current market cap of Bitcoin is ~$1 trillion. Obviously, they can’t just go buy all the Bitcoin without moving…

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