The world is not about the rich and poor, it's about the ascending class and the descending class. Your brooklyn woke is actually rich, but in the descendingclass. And a kid in india or nigeria th the smart phone may be poor, but they're in the ascending class. Ascending and descending is dynamic. Their fundamental frames on the world are incorrect because of this. They think of things is static. Once you start talking that seriously though, once you start saying, oke, the world could change quite rapidly. Therefore, i need to have radar that is alurting me to all the ways the world can change, what happens. Then you have have
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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