Is humanity running out of resources?
The latest podcast is a seminar with Professor
, the coauthor of Superabundance, a fascinating and optimistic exploration of how economic progress has made life better for humanity.
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We discuss: why goods continue to become more abundant
Why fears of overpopulation and resource depletion continue to be refuted forcefully by reality
Why human time keeps getting more valuable
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We also discuss the work of one of our favorite economists, the late Julian Simon, the bet he won with eternal doomsayer , and how he reframed scarcity as the scarcity of human time.
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We also explore how inflation reverses economic progress, and how much better life would be without it, and conclude with a discussion of how bitcoin fixes it & allows us to benefit from suprabundance!
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What a small world! I went to a dinner with his co-author Marian last month. I’ll have to check this out. The historical price charts in that book looked very comprehensive.
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Back twenty some odd years ago, one of my mentors threw me the book "The Good News is that the Bad News is Wrong"! Optimism and positivity just doesn't capture the eyeballs like the next tragic event!
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Hi . Thank you for your work. I own "The Bitcoin Standard" and have consumed a lot of your podcasts and also some others where you were a speaker.
There is something that I struggle to argue and would be helpful if you could enlighten me. 1/2
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The elites want us to think so - and of course their solution is we give all the world's resources to them, for safe keeping, while we live in boxes, eat insects, own nothing and are happy
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This was my favorite #bitcoinstandard podcast by far! Actually restarted it to listen at 1x to savor every hopeful word. Perfect way to start a new year by radiating positivity! Well done! 🤍🧡🤍
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