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December 15, 2023 · 1h 45m

Communism, Capitalism, Energy, Bitcoin, & AI: Aleks Svetski (Bitcoin Talk)

Walker is joined by Aleks Svetski, an author, speaker and entrepreneur. He co-authored a fantastic book with Mark Moss called The Uncommunist Manifesto, a rebuttal to Marx and Engels The Communist Manifesto.

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1 I believe we probably waste 90 or 95% of the energy out there because we live in a Seattle 2 society.

4 We do it slower, more stupid, more retarded, more backwards than we otherwise would had 5 we had a monetary system that we could measure all of this stuff accurately with.

6 We're literally like blind men trying to build a house and not only like trying to build 7 a house being blind but we're using an elastic tape measure.

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I believe we probably waste 90 or 95% of the energy out there because we live in a Seattle

society.

We produce shit we don't need.

We do it slower, more stupid, more retarded, more backwards than we otherwise would had

we had a monetary system that we could measure all of this stuff accurately with.

We're literally like blind men trying to build a house and not only like trying to build

a house being blind but we're using an elastic tape measure.

And we're wondering why everything is like all wonky and fucking nothing's holding together.

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Walker is joined by Aleks Svetski, an author, speaker and entrepreneur. He co-authored a fantastic book with Mark Moss called The Uncommunist Manifesto, a rebuttal to Marx and Engels The Communist Manifesto.

He’s also building Spirit of Satoshi, a Bitcoin-centric AI.

The conversation centers around Communism, Capitalism, Bitcoin and Energy. We unpack some of the misconceptions people have about both communism and capitalism, and talk about how to reframe these discussions. We also dig into how much communism has already infected our world, even here in the supposedly “capitalist” United States of America.

Go to bitbox.swiss/walker and

SVETSKI’S LINKS:

X: https://twitter.com/SvetskiWrites

Website: https://linktr.ee/svetski

Spirit of Satoshi: https://www.spiritofsatoshi.ai/