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#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights

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Do You Think Authoritarian Regimes Can Manipulate the Negative Rights?

authoritarian regimes make up 53% of the world's population across 95 countries. Those who live under those regimes are subject to massive fraud when it comes to things like literacy rates, life expectancy and economic growth. The freest countries in the world have both the negative liberties and the entitlements,. But there's a big difference between Norway and North Korea. In North Korea, they only claim to have the entitlements and they definitely don't have the liberties.

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