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#248 – Norman Naimark: Genocide, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Absolute Power

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Blockchain and Cryptocurrency

A lot of people from China don't want to speak out because they're going to also lose financially. The nature of the fear I sense is not the kind of fear you would have in Nazi Germany. If you can control the flow of money where the government has less power, it feels like that's solvable. That's where capitalism is good and a free market is good. Technology is neutral on one level. It is simply a human,. I'm not so sure there's anything necessarily positive or negative about it except it does make things easier.

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