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Freedom, Growth, and Responsibility with Robert Breedlove (WiM262)

The "What is Money?" Show

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What's the Difference Between Power and Power?

I was going to ask you about the Lightning Network, but I'm going to skip over that for one second. You have a series with Jason Lowry that I really found mind-blowing. He calls it the power projection game, right? It's effectively the entire teleological history of evolution itself as this Darwinian theater of combat where organisms are trying to outcompete one another in terms of projecting greater amounts of power than they can actually do. And so he does a brilliant job of explaining what that is... But once you start to understand how political power is all in the human imagination, that was quite eye-opening as well.

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