![]() ![]() And Brett is an author, he’s a journalist, he’s an activist, and he’s exploring the intersections between money systems, finance and digital technology. You know him on Twitter as And this guy is just a fantastic brain. ![]() Today’s guest is none other than Brett Scott. Here’s another episode of Macro N Cheese with your host, Steve Grumbine.Īll right, folks, this is Steve with Macro N Cheese. Now, let’s see if we can avoid the apocalypse altogether. ![]() You’ll then say the state is stealing my money, even though the state issues the money. In libertarian thought, it’s often imagined that markets are a natural form that’s then parasited upon by some nefarious state. But many of us are starting to sense that actually is a deep kind of emptiness that lies in there. I think many people have intuited that we are increasingly stuck in a type of digital enclosure and that’s often sold to us as being something that’s highly convenient and even revolutionary. His latest book is Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets. He’s the author of The Heretics Guide to Global Finance: Hacking the Future of Money. What happens when we have no interaction with the people we depend upon?īrett Scott is an author, journalist, and activist, who explores the intersections between money systems, finance, and digital technology. Whenever I see that, all I see is the commercial interests of large corporations being presented as the general interest of all people.”īrett brings his background in anthropology to look at some of the less obvious consequences of replacing state money – a public utility – with a massive global system that is almost impossible to track or understand. We will all be moving towards this ever more digital future, and so on. “We’ll see these news stories that say something like, cashless society is an inevitability. They ask whose interests are served through these and other mainstream narratives. Steve and Brett question the assumption that high speed “frictionlessness” is a virtue. ![]() Just like the so-called anarchists of HBO’s series, in the unholy marriage of big finance and big tech the state is the enemy.ĭigital financial transactions are being sold to us as liberating and convenient. This week, Brett talks about his new book, Cloudmoney: Cash, Cards, Crypto, and the War for Our Wallets. He makes the case that the war on cash is a war on class. He has taken us through the history of fintech, explained the uses of blockchain, and dispelled the myths about cryptocurrency. He doesn’t refer to that show but, in a way, he’s been preparing us for it since his first appearance on this podcast in 2019. This is the 21st century, where left-wing rhetoric is gobbled up and regurgitated, having been scrubbed clean of its urgency.īrett Scott is the perfect guest for someone confused by The Anarchists. They are tech billionaires and cryptocurrency hucksters. These aren’t even the scrappy anarchists of punk rock or the raucous groups waving black banners at demonstrations. If you’re hoping to find the intellectual heirs of Emma Goldman and Bakunin, you’ll be disappointed. It’s got the sexy circle-A symbol in the title and… Well, at second glance, that’s all it has going for it. At first glance, HBO’s new documentary series The Anarchists looks like fun. ![]()
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