Is the West Declining, Is It Risen?

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I prefer a situation where everybody is rising and everybody's doing well together, right? Thats not the way the world is. So in this kind of flipping, youre seeing the west declining, you're seeing the rest rising. And something that i wasn't actually aware of is the soviet union was extremely involved on the whole japan us Thing. But they thought of japans as like a very dangerous rival. I'm just trying to see the world as it is, right?

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, set for release July 4, 2022.

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