The only reason the market has to grow, it's because of some rules that we made in the thirteenth century for how capital works and interest bearing currency. Once you can flip that, flip your understanding of the market, Flip your understanding of money and capitalism,. All these things are there to serve humans. You don't figure out how to make a technology that can extract something from humans. And then everything kind of a, everything kind of flips. If you're not doing it in the moment, you're not really doing it. We entertain ideas like de growth.
In this episode we sit down with Douglas Rushkoff, a media scholar, journalist, and professor of digital economics who has a new fire in his belly when it comes to the world of billionaire preppers, which comes across in his new book Survival of the Richest: Escape Fantasies of the Tech Billionaires – inspired by his invitation to consult a group of the world’s richest people on how to spend their money now to survive an apocalypse they fear is coming within their lifetimes.