Bitcoin and The American Dream | The Weinstein Series | Episode 5 (WiM100)

Eric Weinstein joins me for a multi-episode conversation covering mathematics, physics, history, politics, economics, and money. Be sure to check out NYDIG, one of the most important companies in Bitcoin: https://nydig.com/ GUEST Eric's twitter: https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein Eric's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ericweinsteinphd Eric's Podcast: https://ericweinstein.org/ PODCAST Podcast Website: https://whatismoneypodcast.com/ Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-what-is-money-show/id1541404400 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/25LPvm8EewBGyfQQ1abIsE?si=wgVuY16XR0io4NLNo0A11A&nd=1 RSS Feed: https://feeds.simplecast.com/MLdpYXYI Transcript: OUTLINE 00:00:00 “What is Money?” Intro 00:00:08 The Systemic Failure of Modern Socioeconomic Incentives 00:04:27 The Importance of “Paying People in Immorality” 00:07:02 “The American Dream Has Stopped Paying a Dividend” 00:09:22 Atheism and the Disincentives to Accomplishment 00:11:58 “Tried to Put Some Money Away, But I’ve Got Debts No Honest Man Can Pay” 00:14:52 Do Unbreakable Rules Engender Cultural Vitality? 00:17:46 The Difficulty of Changing Existing Cultures 00:20:39 “Nature Just Cares About Strategies that Work” 00:24:20 Quantifying the Collapse of The American Dream 00:29:14 NYDIG 00:30:22 Does Fixing the Money Fix the Pace of Innovation? 00:35:02 DISC: “The Distributed Idea Suppression Complex” 00:38:04 “Fix the Science, Fix the World” 00:40:20 Money Geeks Need to Focus More on Science 00:42:15 The Market as a Trained Neural Net in a Force Field Called Money 00:47:37 Bitcoin: Let It Be Money Before It Is Anything Else 00:49:49 Isn’t Bitcoin Scientific Money? 00:54:11 Eric Saying One Super-Offensive Thing to the Bitcoin Community... SOCIAL Breedlove Twitter: https://twitter.com/Breedlove22 WiM? Twitter: https://twitter.com/WhatisMoneyShow LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/breedlove22/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/breedlove_22/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@breedlove22?lang=en All My Current Work: https://linktr.ee/breedlove22​ WRITTEN WORK Medium: https://breedlove22.medium.com/ Substack: https://breedlove22.substack.com/ WAYS TO CONTRIBUTE Bitcoin: 3D1gfxKZKMtfWaD1bkwiR6JsDzu6e9bZQ7 Sats via Strike: https://strike.me/breedlove22 Sats via Tippin.me: https://tippin.me/@Breedlove22 Dollars via Paypal: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/RBreedlove Dollars via Venmo: https://venmo.com/code?user_id=1784359925317632528 The "What is Money?" Show Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/user?u=32843101&fan_landing=true RECOMMENDED BUSINESSES Worldclass Bitcoin Financial Services: https://nydig.com/ Join Me At Bitcoin 2022 (10% off if paying with fiat, or discount code BREEDLOVE for Bitcoin): https://www.tixr.com/groups/bitcoinconference/events/bitcoin-2022-26217 Automatic Recurring Bitcoin Buying: https://www.swanbitcoin.com/breedlove/ Buy Bitcoin in a Tax-Advantaged Account: https://www.daim.io/robert-breedlove/ Home Delivered Organic Grass-Fed Beef (Spend $159+ for 4 lbs. free): https://truorganicbeef.com/discount/BREEDLOVE22