Bitcoin, Economics, & Mimetics with Robert Breedlove - WBD680
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 July 2023
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
Robert Breedlove is a philosopher and podcaster within the Bitcoin space. In this wide-ranging interview, we discuss the consequences of the middle class getting destroyed, the hubris of central planning, games of mimetic desire, how Bitcoin is a high-trust environment, Bitcoin's enemies, fasting and living life beyond the ego.
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Robert Breedlove has cemented a role as one of the fiercest freedom maximalists within the Bitcoin space. He is a powerful advocate for decentralization, Bitcoin, and the principles of sound money. And, he is also a fellow podcaster, hosting the "What is Money?" podcast, which explores economics, technology, and financial philosophy from a sound money perspective.
The interview delves into the impact of economic factors on culture and politics, and whether growing divisiveness in the US and other countries is a result of the destruction of the middle class and the erosion of property rights. We discuss the consequences of poor incentives, the misallocation of capital, taxation and government.
We opine on the advantages and disadvantages of currency and the effects of money printing. The discussion considers the need for a hard reset or a wake-up call to address the flaws of our current economic paradigms, predicated on a "colossal hubris" of thinking the world is a compliant machine enabling the global economic systems to be planned in advance.
Robert also explains the concept of mimetic desire and its impact on our work and personal lives. We explore the importance of staying true to oneself, and finding inspiration while avoiding becoming too similar to others. We finish on the benefits of fasting and living life beyond the ego. As I stated, this is a comprehensive show!
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| 0:00.0 | We either need the hyper-inflation of Fiat currencies worldwide to get a hard reset to a |
| 0:06.2 | Bitcoin standard, or you need like this hard wake-up call to all Central Banks in the world. |
| 0:11.2 | Hey, this economic paradigm we've been running does not work. |
| 0:15.0 | Yo, yo, yo, how are you all doing? |
| 0:21.0 | How is your week then? |
| 0:23.0 | Are you looking forward to the weekend? |
| 0:25.0 | I am this weekend off to see the weekend. |
| 0:29.0 | Take my daughter to a concert. |
| 0:30.0 | I've got no idea who the weekend is. |
| 0:32.0 | Are we going to go anyway? |
| 0:34.0 | I've been introducing her to rock a roll |
| 0:36.0 | and she's going to be introducing me to some of this |
| 0:38.0 | youngster music. |
| 0:40.0 | Also, we're putting the final touches to our next trip. |
| 0:42.0 | Sunday, I fly out to Nashville |
| 0:44.0 | gonna meet our boy Danny out there. |
| 0:46.0 | We're doing a few days in Nashville and a few days in Austin recording a few shows and |
| 0:49.9 | then I'm off to Argentina to make part for or follow the money. I cannot wait to do that and |
| 0:54.4 | hopefully I'm going to see a bunch of you at the lightning conference at |
| 0:56.9 | Bitcoin Park. Anyway, I've got a banger of a show for you. Welcome to the |
| 1:01.0 | What Bitcoin did podcast which is brought to you by Iris Energy, the largest |
| 1:04.9 | NASDAQ listed Bitcoin miner using 100% renewable energy. I am your host, Peter McCormack, and today I've got |
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