It’s actually worse than that. I knew a lot of that stuff, but was still basically blue-pilled about dollar hegemony and America’s true role in the world until I researched and wrote this:
https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Repression-Exploitation-Development-Gladstein/dp/B0C1JK6MG7
As I wrote in the book though, this doesn’t mean I’m anti-American. Far from it. But for us to truly improve and reform in a positive direction, we need to evolve past dollar hegemony and become a global collaborator and not parasite. We can help ourselves by helping others instead of exploit them. Bitcoin is key to this
Hidden Repression was one of the most eye-opening books I have read in my adult life.
I was generally aware of some of the basics - mostly through what you wrote about in some of the pieces that formed CYFP, but I had not fathomed the scope of the systematic and deeply entrenched financial repression that allows the dollar to hold its value, or the negative externalities born by real people I may never meet that make it as easy as it is for me to type this message on an iPhone right now.
Alex, yours are two of the first books I recommend when discussing Bitcoin. It removes the common lens of “crypto-Lambo-investment-advice” and instead shows anyone with a heart and a brain that humanity needs a new way.
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It’s scary to think the degree to which our comfortable existence in the West has been subsidized by human suffering.
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not having read this yet knowing some of the geopolitics could there be a more benign view?
Bitcoin is helping America unwind it’s petrodollar position
