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Natalie Smolenski: "We're In Dark Times" — The Rise of Counter-Elites & the Bank-State War Machine
Natalie Smolenski is an anthropologist, software executive, editor of the Satoshi Papers, and one of the most original thinkers in the Bitcoin space. We explore America's national identity crisis, the bank-state relationship that funds war and destroys purchasing power, and why individual financial sovereignty is the only meaningful response to systems that can't be voted away.
Topics include:
Why you can't vote your way out of the bank-state nexus — and what you can do instead
The erosion of free speech, privacy, and individual rights in the digital age
How the financialization of everything…
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