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🗓️ 13 November 2023
⏱️ 88 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello I'm Jans Valfakis I'm at Novara Media and I have a message for you the best way of |
0:07.6 | Underpining any kind of potential resistance to a very toxic establishment |
0:14.7 | without being a populist anti-establishment |
0:18.5 | and by supporting good irrational humanist causes is to support left-wing media like Novaria media. |
0:27.0 | Novara media and all such media need your support because they certainly do not have the support of the establishment. |
0:34.7 | Cap a mobile phone. |
0:48.0 | Originally we use these to call people on the move. You might not remember that, I certainly do. Then we could |
0:54.4 | check our emails, post things on social media, take photos. More recently still, |
0:59.2 | we could use them to pay for things. You didn't need cash, you could just have a |
1:05.2 | mobile phone. Now some people say that this has crept up on us without us really |
1:11.2 | scrutinizing what that means, that it's part of a broader shift |
1:14.9 | to a cashless society, and the first step towards a kind of authoritarianism we're yet to fully comprehend. Now some of the critics of the move to a cashless society |
1:26.4 | have been called conspiracy theorists and some of them are. But there are also voices who say that we should be more judicious about this technology |
1:35.8 | that in fact there are major downsides if we renounce cash. |
1:41.9 | We give too much power to government, to big corporations, and to big tech. |
1:46.0 | And that's the argument made by today's guest, Brett Scott. |
1:50.0 | Brett is an author, a former banker, and somebody who knows all about digital currencies, |
1:55.8 | from Bitcoin to Brit coin and everything in between. |
2:00.0 | Brett, welcome to Downstream. |
2:01.7 | So good to be here. |
2:02.8 | We are talking about a super interesting topic today. |
2:05.9 | Money, the future of money, cloud money, which is the topic, |
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