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The Nature of Mimetic Desire with Rob Henderson (WiM351)
The "What is Money?" Show
The Importance of Imitating People
In a Bitcoin world, it would be much more difficult for a guy to get that wealthy through extraction and coercion. So therefore people would imitate those actions less. And we'd have a more peaceful, more entrepreneur led world. We naturally gravitate towards imitating people who are high status,. But yet today, it can take on perverse forms, right? Like being in an investment bank or maybe is not the worst thing with being someone like Vladimir Putin wouldn't be very bad.
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