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#284 – Saifedean Ammous: Bitcoin, Anarchy, and Austrian Economics

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The Free Market Is Best in Managing That Balance

If the market ends up centralizing all of it into one power plant, I don't see that as a problem. There are places, you know, there's a small town with only one barbershop. Is that a catastrophe? No, because they don't need two barbershops. And if that barbershop started to take advantage of people, started to charge higher price, well, then that's just an opportunity for others to step in and put them in their place. It's the same thing with everything. The key thing is this. From the central planning perspective, they'll tell you, well, this is bad. So let's stop what's bad and do

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