Balaji: The future is communist capital vs woke capital vs crypto capital
Balaji Sr i n i v a s a n · Balaji Srinivasan: Bitcoin, China, the "Woke" Mob, and the Future of the Internet · Joe Lonsdale · Aug 11, 2021 · at 21:46
Balaji Srinivasan discusses his 'Ideological Triangle' framework with host Joe Lonsdale, classifying modern global power structures into three competing camps.
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“The near term future, I gave a talk on this and I've got an edit to it that it is the future is communist capital versus woke capital versus crypto capital. And communist capital is straightforward. You must submit, right? Woke capital, you must sympathize and crypto capital, you must be sovereign.”
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