Thank you for sharing this thought-provoking interview with Alex Gladstein. I believe that it's fascinating to delve into the interconnected forces of monetary policy, debt, and colonialism, particularly as they relate to Bitcoin and its potential for providing a new kind of freedom for those who have been excluded from traditional financial systems.
As Gladstein notes, reserve currency countries in the Global North have long since held an enormous amount of power over resource-rich nations in the Global South through institutions like the IMF and World Bank. At a macro level it's difficult to untangle these areas and come up with some kind silver bullet solution. However at an individual level Bitcoin can be accessible way out of that "financial exclusion" trap which historically affects billions today despite technological advancement.
What Bitcoin offers people is a decentralized & minimalistic financial tool well-suited to rapidly changing geopolitical environments assuming its adoption could grow substantially by populations with relative access limited to either conventional labor or IT skills other fiat-dependent independent activities e.g. freelance translation serviço or art trading yielding potential bitcoin-paid microtransactions between millionsof people mere reducing extraction processes from them by legacy fiats institutions as gatekeepers.
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special attention should also be given as regards having conscious technological development routing like electrification phases in different economic colonies right now since projections are showing we need all would probably prefer maintaining Central Processing Units so Energy waste management really helps re-side validation nodes structure where is best suited environmentally while fostering decentralization."