Robert Breedlove - Bitcoin vs. The State (BWP6)

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Robert Breedlove joins me today for a very wide-ranging discussion covering taxes, common misconceptions around different social structures, systemic vs. leadership change, the importance of private property, and how Bitcoin flips global corruption on its head.

TIMESTAMPS ⏱

00:00:00 Introduction / Robert's Backstory
00:07:22 Taxes 101 / How Taxation Has Been Used & Abused Throughout History
00:14:31 How Bitcoin Changes The Calculus of Taxation
00:16:35 The Importance of Consensual Exchange/Natural Competition
00:22:43 The Problem With The State Getting Infinite "Free Rolls"
00:25:07 How the Federal Reserve Money-Printer Ruins Everything
00:29:05 Benefits of Bringing Money-Management to the Local Level
00:31:36 The Self-Refuting Logic of Statism
00:34:21 Are Wealthy Billionaires The Problem...or is it Politicians & Central Banks?
00:43:00 How Bitcoin Fixes All of the Above
00:47:00 Why Systemic Change vs. Leadership Change
00:50:34 INCENTIVES
00:52:17 Capitalism vs. Socialism vs. Communism
01:02:57 Why Capitalism is Closest Aligned with Nature / How It Takes Human Nature & Rationality Into Account
01:09:25 The Importance Private Property
01:15:10 How the Corruption of Money Leads to Corruption of Everything Else
01:23:10 Discussion on "Slavery" Through A Modern Lens
01:28:41 "We Are Living Through the Intellectual & Economic Dark Ages" / How Eliminating the Money-Printer Flips the Script
01:36:02 The Return to Morality / Bitcoin Fixes This

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