Game B, Liquid Democracy, and Complex Systems with Jim Rutt

Jim Rutt (@jim_rutt) joins Erik on this episode. He is an entrepreneur, technologist, research fellow, and host of The Jim Rutt Show.

Note that this episode contains adult language and may not be suitable for listening in all situations.

They discuss:

- The change in the ethos of business over the last several decades, and why it’s now the case in Jim’s opinion that “honesty and good faith is a sucker strategy.”

- Why Jim is no longer an Ayn Randian.

- How to change politics and society via the Game B movement.

- How to design better political systems.

- What liquid democracy entails and how it might be able to solve some of the problems of the current system.

- His argument against the idea of having less voice but more opportunity to exit in political systems.

- The problems he sees with Bitcoin.

- His learnings from his study of cognitive psychology.

- What a “gigantism tax” on huge corporations would look like.

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