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🗓️ 6 December 2020
⏱️ 16 minutes
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0:00.0 | Welcome back to The Breakdown with me, NLW. |
0:09.1 | It's a daily podcast on macro, Bitcoin, and the big picture power shifts remaking our world. |
0:14.8 | The breakdown is sponsored by crypto.com, nexo.io, and all nodes. |
0:19.1 | And produced and distributed by CoinDesk. |
0:22.5 | What's going on, guys? It is Sunday, December 6th, and that means it's time for Long |
0:27.8 | Reads Sunday. And I have never had as many requests for a specific piece as I have for this |
0:35.3 | one. It could only be the piece in Bloomberg by Neil Ferguson. Bitcoin |
0:41.1 | is winning the COVID-19 monetary revolution. So instead of giving you some big long intro, |
0:47.4 | let's just dive in. In Shuggy Bain, Douglas Stewart's award-winning and harrowing depiction of |
0:52.8 | alcoholism, sectarianism, and deprivation |
0:55.4 | in post-industrial Scotland, money is always scarce and often dirty. Deserted by her second |
1:00.4 | husband and unable to hold down a job, Shuggy's mother, Agnes, relies on her twice-a-week benefit |
1:05.4 | to feed her children, or her booze habit. As the latter nearly always wins, she and Shuggy are |
1:10.4 | regularly reduced to |
1:11.6 | desperate expedience to fend off starvation, extracting coins from electricity and television meters, |
1:16.9 | pawning their few valuable possessions, and ultimately selling their bodies for brutal sexual |
1:20.9 | favors. Stuart vividly captures the miseries of a Glasgow of greasy coins and filthy banknotes. |
1:26.9 | After one of many wretched copulations |
1:28.9 | in the back of a taxi, one of Agnes' lovers inadvertently showers her with coins from his pocket. |
1:34.3 | Shogi's father briefly reappears at one point handing his son two 20-pence pieces from his |
1:38.4 | taxis change dispenser by way of a gift, grudgingly adding four fifty pence pieces when the boy |
1:43.0 | looks nonplussed. Don't ask for mar. |
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