Bitcoin is one of the greatest acts of storytelling ever. An entire movement built around the number 50
www.asomo.co/p/cult-of-th...
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Posts by Brett Scott
“As the territory of Mind gets taken over by the AI giants, Deep Humanity becomes the new product for the refugees. You are pushed to find this new commodity within yourself, and to haul it out like felled logs drawn from your inner, hidden rainforest.”
My latest essay
www.asomo.co/p/humanity-a...
2 weeks ago
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The two modes of censorship, and how they relate to conservatism and the culture wars
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"It often does seem that he sees the White House and Mar-a-Lago as cockpits of a planetary scale mecha fused with his own nervous system, a colossal exoskeleton that he controls through executive orders, which turn his small thoughts into giant globe-spanning punches"
www.asomo.co/p/neon-genes...
1 month ago
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Tech adds to you life by subtracting from it
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1 month ago
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I'd love to have an actual pager. Someone needs to bring those back
Always happy to send money stuff to whoever is looking for them
1 month ago
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I wrote this for anyone who wants to understand the broad conceptual underpinnings of Modern Monetary Theory, or MMT, a paradigm of monetary thinking that conservatives (and, for that matter, that many left-wingers) love to hate
Enjoy! www.asomo.co/p/modern-mon...
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The true cost of a super-yacht
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ldq...
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The poverty of the super-rich
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Bob Marley once said, “some people are so poor, all they have is money”
What did he mean by this? In a system that requires you to lose your soul in order to win, those who win do not lead lives that we should aspire to
In my latest video, I dive deeper into this
www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfeV...
2 months ago
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In this 20 min video @brettscott.bsky.social explains clearly and in non-technical terms what is at stake as monetary systems go digital, the role of cash, private and state digital money and stablecoins. Convenience vs resilience, surveillance and power and a great casino chip analogy.
2 months ago
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I see a lot of people fixating on how inflation robs them of purchasing power. That’s reasonable, but never let it distract you from the far bigger robber of purchasing power, which is bosses who constantly try reduce your wages so that shareholders and billionaires can get a bigger slice of the pie
2 months ago
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Kudos to the bouncer turning Elon Musk away from the Berlin nightclub.
Influence, relationships & power 👇
2 months ago
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What do the Epstein files tell us about elite loneliness? In my latest essay I explore the fragility of the powerful www.asomo.co/p/the-green-...
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The Big Tech business model: steal the world’s data to build machines to replace the world’s jobs while flooding the internet with slop to make the world doubt reality, and then hope like hell you can escape to outer space before the world’s anger towards you catches fire
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Does Trump fit the historical archetype of the 'Stranger King'?
In my new video I explore what anthropology can teach us about the new American colonialism and the MAGA movement
youtu.be/UQGRWSq0TL0
3 months ago
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If there’s one thing that I'd like to thank Trump for, it’s in destroying that old 1980s idea that capitalism and state power are somehow separate and incompatible. RIP the old 'state vs market' debate
3 months ago
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In this essay I introduce you to the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins’ work on kings, and how it can help us to understand not only the relationship of Venezuelans to Trump, but also the relationship between US Americans and Trump www.asomo.co/p/the-strang...
3 months ago
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After many years of resisting, I've decided to finally start an Instagram account. Please do connect with me on there www.instagram.com/brett.scott....
3 months ago
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Just in case anyone has become confused by the rhetoric, Trump isn't ‘cutting government’. He's *centralizing government* by cutting any section of it that distributes power away from his inner clique
It’s not a dismantling of government. It’s a dismantling of the balance of powers within it
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Who profits from a world without cash? Hot tip - it isn’t you
In this interview with the Dutch channel VPRO, I explain the dynamics of cashless society (aka - the bank dominated society), and how this relates to stablecoins, CBDC and Bitcoin
www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNZp...
3 months ago
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A message to anyone campaigning for the four-day week
Just call it the three-day weekend
3 months ago
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People across the political spectrum can agree that payments censorship is a form of economic strangulation. Protecting cash, then, is something we can all work together on
www.youtube.com/shorts/uXcIE...
3 months ago
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Just uploaded! 2025 was the year of the Trump-AI-Crypto Nexus, but it's an unstable cocktail
www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHnJ...
3 months ago
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Tech isn't a relaxant. It's an accelerant.
For the full video, see www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTfO...
3 months ago
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Every day we're told that being enslaved to Big Tech is progress. In this video I show you how to break free from that ideology www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTfO...
4 months ago
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Thoughtful observations from @brettscott.bsky.social on the yawning gap between the hierarchy and the "under-archy" (and the fact we all rely on life's foundations at ground level, whether or not we trade millions in our skyscrapers) open.substack.com/pub/brettsco...
4 months ago
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Thanks for the support
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As someone who works in an elite professional services setting, I fully endorse @brettscott.bsky.social‘s essay on the reality distorting effects of life atop the pyramid of financialized capitalism, and can attest to how little thought is given by those who inhabit such spaces to what lies beneath.
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