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#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights
Lex Fridman Podcast
What Kind of Systems Protect Us From Our Own Human Nature?
The idea that we should be ruled by rules, not by rulers, is very powerful. And I think that the democratic revolution has been an incredible thing for our world. We started with authoritarianism or autocracy, right? Rule by one or a small group oligarchy. All humans lived under this structure for the virtual bulk of all human existence until pretty recently.
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