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The "What is Money?" Show

Jungian Psychology, Addiction, and Money Printing w/ Stephen Diangelo (WiM588)

The "What is Money?" Show

Robert Breedlove

Bitcoin, Breedlove, What Is Money, Investing, Rabbit Hole, Cryptocurrency, Money, Finance, Education, Robert Breedlove, History

4.8710 Ratings

🗓️ 30 May 2025

⏱️ 156 minutes

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Summary

Stephen Diangelo joins me to explore how money printing functions as a collective addiction, distorting truth and reshaping our relationship with reality. We discuss the difference between habits and addiction, the spiritual consequences of self-deception, the central bank as a devouring mother, the tension between lies and radical truth, the role of the price signal in human coordination, and why facing addiction may be the first step toward answering the deeper call within.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Money printing is very much like an addict dealing with an addictive substance.

0:05.7

Economic stimulus is what is typically called. Let's talk about these parallels.

0:10.0

If you become your own Federal Reserve and Jess can't not stop, pressing the button,

0:14.9

now we call this a problem. So how do we think about drawing that line between habituation and addiction?

0:22.7

Immediate feedback loop of addiction is just immediate gratification.

0:27.0

The price that you pay for it is always in the future.

0:30.4

Reaping before selling.

0:31.6

If you're open to receiving help, you get what you need and the way you need it.

0:36.2

If you knock, the door shall be open.

0:37.8

And people can make this fact, like, morality only exists when the conditions are good enough.

0:43.0

The measure of a man is what he does with power or how he responds to adversity.

0:46.7

Alcohol is not that person's problem. If it was, they're not an alcohol. The alcohol is

0:51.2

the solution to their problem. That person will drink again. This person needs to

0:55.4

die and become another person. It's a transformation. You sort of think you're making progress

0:59.9

sometimes or then you get so flipped upside down and humbled again. I don't know. You just smile

1:05.3

and keep going. I mean, I guess it's probably, I don't think we or I are the originators of this idea

1:21.0

that money printing is very much like an addict dealing with an addictive substance.

1:30.0

Right.

1:30.1

It's even even the term stimulus is used, right?

1:36.0

Economic stimulus is what it's typically called.

1:38.9

So there's even that that kind of verbiage built into the words that central bankers are using when they print money

1:46.6

to stimulate the economy.

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