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Send us Fan Mail Our most practical metric for determining something's value is money.  However, there are two issues with this.  First, if people are not willing to pay for something, does that mean it is worthless?  Van Gogh only sold one painting in his life--he sold it for 400 francs, 7 months before his death.  Now, Van Gogh paintings are worth tens of millions of dollars.  Second, if th...

Send us Fan Mail A low time preference emphasizes a gain in the long term, or a delayed gratification.  A high time preference emphasizes a gain in the present, often reflected in today's YOLO type ideology.  This episode explores which time preference today's economic system incentivizes, the benefits of each, and whether you can have too extreme of a preference in either direction.

Send us Fan Mail True Names by Vernor Vinge explores a cyberpunk future where computer coding is abstracted to a point where what matters most is your ability to solve problems and understand the purpose of different tools.  Even though computers are a relatively new invention, the abstraction Vernor Vinge describes in his book is already taking place.  We can write programs to run on a computer w...

Send us Fan Mail Why is everyone racing to escape the dollar?  The S&P500 increased 27% in 2021.  Real estate increased 19% in 2021.  Is this a reflection of an actual increase in value of these two assets?  More likely, these increases in value are reflections of the worthlessness of the U.S. dollar.

Send us Fan Mail Man created government to serve his purpose.  Over time, the relationship flips, and men serve their governments.   At what point does the government lose its utility?  As technology continues to advance, so does the power of the individual.  When individuals are empowered to defend themselves more efficiently and more effectively than the government, what purpose does the governm...

Send us Fan Mail What is Mass Formation Psychosis?  And why was it getting memory-holed from the internet?  Maybe more importantly, is everyone parroting "Mass Formation Psychosis" also under the effect of Mass Formation Psychosis?

Send us Fan Mail What happens to a Silverback Gorilla when he is stripped of his purpose?  In the zoo, the Silverback Gorilla is not needed to protect and lead the troop--his position changes from the most valuable member of a troop to the most unnecessary member.  What happens to man when he is stripped of his purpose? And what does this have to do with Bitcoin?  Listen to find out.

Send us Fan Mail Do we have free will? And if not, how can we have individual responsibility?

Send us Fan Mail Who are the cypherpunks and what are they up to?  

Send us Fan Mail Central Bank Digital Currencies. Is the solution to too much centralized power more centralized power?  Probably not.  Buy Bitcoin and free yourself.

Send us Fan Mail NFTs and Shitcoins: how long can we keep passing the bag?

Send us Fan Mail When debt becomes an asset, it is clear our economic system is broken.  Bitcoin fixes this.

Send us Fan Mail It's the Matrix, but we are calling it the Metaverse.

Send us Fan Mail How the naturally wealthiest country in the world threw it all away.

Send us Fan Mail Sell your gold, buy Bitcoin.  

Send us Fan Mail Get on the liferaft before its too late

Send us Fan Mail Where do we go when the fiat world implodes? Find a Citadel.

Send us Fan Mail The polar opposite of hyperinflation.

Send us Fan Mail Wilkinson's got a bite on a new one.. Petramco Corp. Out of, hu, Springfield. I think.  They're about to introduce some sort of robot butcher coin.  -George Costanza

Send us Fan Mail Inflation, fake money, real money and everything else you need to know

Send us Fan Mail Who is John Galt?

Send us Fan Mail Even worse than the Fiat car.

Send us Fan Mail Answering the questions that matter: do we live in the matrix?

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Send us Fan Mail just take the orange pill already