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The "What is Money?" Show

Bitcoin, Climate Change, and Mainstream Media - Hajo Smit (WiM478)

The "What is Money?" Show

Robert Breedlove

Bitcoin, Breedlove, What Is Money, Investing, Rabbit Hole, Cryptocurrency, Money, Finance, Education, Robert Breedlove, History

4.8710 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2024

⏱️ 124 minutes

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Summary

Hajo Smit joins me for a conversation about climate change, politics and fear, the neutrality of science, the incentive trap in climate change, technology and media, and how Bitcoin changes the human condition.\ Hajo Smit is a serial entrepreneur, journalist, copywriter, marketeer, professional licensed paragliding tandem pilot, and expert on (winter) tourism, climate (MSc), environment, health, and Bitcoin.

Transcript

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0:00.0

We're really headed in totally the wrong direction.

0:03.0

The environmental movement is now fully state religion.

0:07.0

This is the Nietzschean Madness of Crowds thing.

0:09.5

It's also like just triangle of media, politics and science.

0:13.7

If you don't scare anybody, who's going to give you money?

0:16.5

If it bleeds, it leads, you know?

0:19.0

How do you go about framing Bitcoin in terms of climate change?

0:25.0

Of course, if you believe we're on this finite planet and 10 billion people is way too much.

0:30.1

But that's an ignorance of economics, in my opinion.

0:32.4

One thing, for sure, war is money printing.

0:35.3

And then you get, I I would say the military industrial

0:37.6

complex that's evil it's almost like this the possibility of stealing is what

0:42.6

promotes the lying and that lying seems to permeate every level even the

0:47.2

scientific enterprise itself every generation needs problems because humans

0:51.9

are problem solvers why do we always look for the doom and gloom?

0:55.6

What is it about our nature?

0:58.8

The questions where you have to think a few seconds,

1:02.2

those are the best questions.

1:09.4

Hey everybody.

1:10.5

Welcome to the What is Money Show. I am thrilled to have you here joining me on my mission to help shine light on the corruption of money.

1:18.6

Now, if this is your first time listening to The What Is Money Show, I strongly recommend that you go back to episodes 1 through 9 first, which lays a lot of the groundwork for many of the concepts that we explore on the show.

1:30.9

These first nine episodes are my series with Michael Saylor,

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