Brilliant must read piece👍
One important caveat wrt how we address this...
Capitalism derives its power & legitimacy over a democracy, not by 'money', but by its virtual monopoly over mass media that 'informs' the votes which puts Capitalist friendly Govs in power.
The fix.../

I've been creating a course about how to deal with living under corporate capitalism - here's a taster asomo.co/p/intro-to-eco…

Back from my walk. 🎧 Great discussion of crypto and why MMT messes with the traditional left-right battles.⁦Brett Scott⁩ insightful and funny as always. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/app…

We can’t wait to discuss them in class next week!

I built some Lego models of Financial Capitalism asomo.co/p/a-lego-model…

The Hume AI biz model summed up: 'we use VC money to build a machine that uses your data to mimic emotion so we can sell it to corporates who want to fire their service staff. We name it after a great philosopher & SEO the shit of out it to replace him on Google'

Such empathy

Met policeman LOVES live facial recognition surveillance, reasoning that the UK is already a surveillance state & your face is more or less a number plate…

🤦‍♀️

“Game changer” indeed. It’s barcodes for the population.

#StopFacialRecognition

I watched the Berlin premiere of Finding the Money and it was EPIC. It follows Stephanie Kelton as she battles conventional wisdom

I actually felt kinda sorry for the mainstream economists who appear in it. Jeez, they really humiliate themselves youtube.com/watch?v=AOSEPa…

🎙️NEW episode is here! 🔊

Part 2 of our conversation with Brett Scott (Brett Scott) is now live. We discuss shifting narratives in Bitcoin, crypto, and how the #MMT lens helps us make sense of it all.

🎧Apple Podcasts: apple.co/3TAiBn7
🎧Spotify: sptfy.com/QjBu

The way every tech platform is trying fob their AI tools on me right now reminds me of the whisper of a drug pusher

I had a fun time talking to the AppliedMMT podcast on the interplay between MMT, anarcho-capitalism, Bitcoiners, cash and much much more buzzsprout.com/2117653/146618…

The monopoly war on cash. My wide-ranging interview with Brett Scott talking cash versus digital, bicycles versus Uber, monopoly money, and the far-right playacting solidarity with the working class
thecounterbalance.substack.com/p/the-monopoli…

🎧 Latest episode is out: Credit Theory of Money, Protecting Cash, and Bitcoin Critiques with Brett Scott (Brett Scott)

thetransformationofvalue.com/episodes/credi…

This is an excellent and important read.