
Dig: Crack-Up Capitalism w/ Quinn Slobodian
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The Inter-Capitalist Consequences of Cosplay
David Director Friedman is a leading medieval recreational reenactor who among other things has been performing as this he probably would balk at the word performing but he has been partially inhabiting cosplay part of his life yeah larping cosplaying as early 12th century Berber poet named Duke Cariadoc of the bow. He helped create in northern Pennsylvania an enchanted ground where you you sort of set up a rope and inside of that space you have to exist like you're in the middle ages. The venture capitalist and big sort of bitcoin operator claims that he and his fellow bitcoiners kind of larped a currency into existence. They get the misperception that they are somehow producing it
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