The Cost of Censorship

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Before social media and then crypt currency, like ye, you had the nominal right to free speech. You couldn't easily start a company because the capital cost of doing so were so high. In practice, only guys like salzburger, or his father,. or his father's father, had that right. And now they're pining for it wistfully, like this jack goldsmith article, raised like china should, you know, shou sensett like china. They didn't use their power to compound their power in a smart way.

Balaji Srinivasan makes a return appearance to The Knowledge Project, this time to go in-depth on Web3, Crypto, and the state of the world today. Srinivasan offers his unfiltered thoughts on the advantages and disadvantages of established democracies, the Russia-Ukraine situation, housing as an investment, education, legacy wealth, and which country he would bet on to dominate the future.

Srinivasan is the former CTO of Coinbase and General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz, and is an early investor in many successful tech companies and crypto protocols. He is also the author of the book The Network State: How To Start a New Country.

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