Here's B Reel episode 3, in which the brilliant Natalie Smolenski takes on the Marxist field of anthropology. We also discuss US bitcoin policy and the future of Europe:
Natalie Smolenski - Universities have Muddied Their Mission | BRP 3
1:00 What is anthropology?
12:00 Natalie’s Polish background and her jarring experience with Marxism in the US
23:45 Radcliffe-Brown’s interest in the principles behind stateless societies
28:00 Natalie’s critique of David Graeber’s flawed theory of money
34:20 Karl Marx on how property is supposedly evil, Graeber sly move in redefining money as credit
37:50 Graeber’s debate with cypherpunk legend Nick Szabo
42:00 David Graeber endorsing the Modern Monetary Theory of money
46:00 Natalie’s defense of academia: why are universities important?
52:20 Do we need to reform existing universities, or shall we just build new ones?
57:00 Pros and cons of the academic institution of tenure
1:02:50 How universities get funded, bitcoin as future source of funding, and the role of donors
1:09:25 The link between fiat money and warfare, “Easy Money, Easy Wars”
1:16:10 Discussion of the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve
1:20:00 The criticism that bitcoin concentrates the wealth in the hands of the few, risk of confiscation, Avik Roy’s argument about why bitcoiners need to be politically engaged
1:24:30 The calcification of institutions, parallels with the Soviet Union
1:28:25 Guilt, Europe, the threat of war in the West
1:32:50 Will the European Union collapse? Historical parallels: The US Civil War, Free Banking, and failing government credit. How Europe is becoming a vassal of the US, Russia, and China
Parker Lewis - Orangepilling The Masses | BRP 2
Timestamps:
2:00 Parker’s background in the debt restructuring & hedge funds
8:29 Understanding how the dollar system really works
15:00 The 2019-2020 financial crisis
20:30 When Parker realized there is a fiat money endgame (cascading collapse)
25:25 Hayek, Marx, value, and the distortion of information by unlimited money printing
32:00 Misallocation of resources and investing in a world gone mad
34:00 Born and raised in Texas, aversion to debt
36:50 Thinking about Gold and the Gold Standard, buying $20M worth of nickels
40:00 Acceleration of money printing, breakdown of the system
41:30 The fatal flaw in the Gold Standard
44:00 Personal experiences with the failure of fiat
54:40 Orangepilling: how to sell bitcoin to the masses
1:09:00 Bitcoin as a way to restore the global economy
1:12:50 Bitcoin adoption by the US government
1:20:20 US debt situation, path towards debt restructuring
1:30:40 Collapse and Hyperbitcoinization
1:37:15 Sixteen years in, half a percent of people understands bitcoin today
1:42:44 Bitcoin becoming real money
1:44:40 Tuur Demeester vs Fed President Robert S. Kaplan
We're live with a new episode! Bitcoin legend Parker Lewis knocks it out of the park with in-depth Federal Reserve analysis, his fascinating investment background, and expert insights on how to sell bitcoin to the masses.