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TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

#687: How Fiat Money Exploits the Working Class with Erik Cason

TFTC: A Bitcoin Podcast

Marty Bent

Technology

4.8764 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 87 minutes

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Marty sits down with Erik Cason to discuss the dangers of centralized AI systems, the need for decentralized technology, Bitcoin as a tool against fiat exploitation, and organizing a new political movement to restore freedom for the working class.

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0:00.0

You've had a dynamic where money has become freer than free.

0:10.0

If you talk about a Fed just gone nuts, all the central banks going nuts.

0:16.0

So it's all acting like safe haven.

0:18.0

I believe that in a world where central bankers are tripping over themselves to devalue their

0:23.5

currency, Bitcoin wins. In the world of fiat currencies, Bitcoin is the victor.

0:29.2

I mean, that's part of the bold case for Bitcoin.

0:31.8

If you're not paying attention, you probably should be.

0:36.2

Deep down like the rabbit hole and that like I think most of the media is, like,

0:40.5

a explicit designed thing to try to get cultural effects that, like, society wants for controlling people.

0:47.6

Well, it's really weird, too, because we're talking about robot dicks and when they will manifest.

0:55.2

Because it seems like we're on a trajectory that will make them inevitable.

1:00.3

Yeah, and definitely people are going to isolate from one another and be like,

1:02.8

why should I have a real human when I have my robot that I can beat and sexually abuse

1:06.7

and do all the fucked up stuff I want to.

1:08.8

Yeah.

1:09.6

Well, like the predictive programming, I think of two movies, particularly that really come top of mind quite frequently these days.

1:19.6

It's Minority Report and Her.

1:22.3

Okay.

1:22.9

I've actually had both of those come up in dialogue recently about it.

1:27.7

Because yeah, like with where Palantir is going with pre-crime stuff,

1:31.5

definitely going to try to do minority report style pre-crime.

1:35.5

And her also like people are obviously falling in love with like different AI at this point in time.

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