
Alex Gladstein: "Debt Colonialism, The Petrodollar, and Bitcoin"
The Great Simplification with Nate Hagens
Bitcoin: A Response to the Challenges
I think the system is profoundly unfair. Is it fair that a small group of unelected old white men for the most part in Virginia get to decide the cost of capital for everybody? I've benefited from it my entire life. But I'm asking you just to think about what it's like for other people, both at the retail level of like, can you send money to your friends? This is just non-trivial for some people. Try to send a Western Union or a bank wire to Mozambique or to South Korea,. Even it's like impossible and it's expensive and it takes a lot of time and sometimes it doesn't even make it.
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