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SLP446 Alex Gladstein The Scourge of “Structural Adjustment”

Stephan Livera Podcast

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Bitcoin Is Like a Response to the Colonial Framework

When the colonial powers kind of chopped up this part of the world, the banking system was implemented not to connect people, but to make money off providing a service between them. So when Africans are trying to move money to each other, you've got like massive rent seeking by essentially, you know, what you could still call financial colonialism. And so Bitcoin's like a reaction to that and I think that that was it's very deep and very profound.

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