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Monetary Long Covid with Fabio Vighi

Outsider Theory

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The Future of Technology and Capitalism

In the long term, i think we need to get rid of cash and create a system based on digital currencies controlled by central banks. This is one of the ways in which I see technology and capitalismfunctioning in a kind of authoritarian terms. In actual fact, it will be this sort of controlled, centralized, control economy, a capitalist economy, with legitimized and justified emergencies. You know, you will be conditioned, or coerced to do certain things to avoid. But not to avoid it, you have to be accept being subjected to these forms of control more and more. It's becoming quickly very real, i think, rightwweare seeing now what it means.

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