They're debasing the money. They're printing the money. That is taking your work. That's taking your

labor. That's taking your productive energy. There's a saying that everyone would like to live at the

expense of the state, but few realize that the state lives at the expense of everyone else.

That's the form of slavery. We cannot lose sight of that. The central bank prints money and then

uses the proceeds stolen to engineer psescientific excuses like Keynesian

economics to make the slave believe that the whip is good for them. If I have absolute knowledge,

I have this secret sauce, I can cast spells, I can change the structure of reality to match my

speculative fantasy. That's literally our modern monetary system. God said let there be light. So God spoke

creation into existence. Humans are not God. We're not God. So I often describe Fiat as humans

attempting to play God. If you look back in history, every civilization that starts to debase their

money, that's right before they fall. Aristotle said it will rip society apart. And like, that's what we see today.

I'm Rand.

You're free to ignore reality,

but you're not free to ignore the consequences of ignoring reality.

Neil, man, I appreciate you making the trip out here.

Super excited to have this conversation.

You and I have been trading some messages for, I don't know, a few months.

You're very deep in the Bitcoin philosophy rabbit hole.

And you just published a book today of all days.

Yep.

Good timing.

Yeah.

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