So, you know, that's the book.

I mean, it talks about how this IMF World Bank-led international monetary system

when it comes to like the wealthy countries and their relationship to poor nations,

how it's not just bureaucratic and wasteful and corrupt.

That's the typical criticism of these things.

No, no, it's much deeper than that.

It's actually that they are neo-colonial tools to harvest resources and labor from other

places and then bring them into subsidize our economies.

And we would be so much worse off if we didn't have this flow.

Just to be brutally honest.

Like we are we are subsidizing shine light on the collection of money.

Now, if this is your first time listening to The What Is Money Show, I strongly recommend that you go back to episodes one through nine first, which lays a lot of the groundwork for many of the concepts that we explore on the show.

These first nine episodes are my series with Michael Saylor, and thousands of people have told me that this is the best podcast series they've ever heard,

hands down, and that it was instrumental to their understanding of money and Bitcoin.

So if you're looking to start a deep dive into the nature of money, I don't think there's

any place better that you can start other than episode one of this show.

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