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Daniel Schmachtenberger: “Bend not Break #4: Modeling the Drivers of the Metacrisis”

The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens

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What's the Biggest Threat to the World?

I think it's pretty easy to see that all the problems that we look at in the world, one of the lenses they have in common involves the system of macroeconomics. There's perverse incentive that what generates profit for a company or a country or an individual often does so at the expense of another company or country or other individuals or the environment as a whole. So then when that profit equals not just security and survivability, but also game theoretic advantage of their ability to influence their own fate in the world you get these kind of races. Whether it's a arms race militarily or just market wise, you can think of it as a kind of arms race to be able to

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