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242 - Survival of the Richest - Douglas Rushkoff

You Are Not So Smart

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What if the Market Was a Utility, Not an Interest Bearing Thing?

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.

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