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Booth: If One Government Accumulates Bitcoin Reserves, All Must Follow
“And if one does, Or if one starts accumulating behind the scenes, they all have to. It moves really, it starts to move really fast.”
Jeff Booth Apr 30, 2020 ▶ 58:13 When Will Poor Revolt Against Rich? Is Unemployment Good? Currency Pegged To Bitcoin with Jeff Booth
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Booth: Debt repayment requires higher taxes that will slow growth and cause deflation
“Now, the only way it doesn't become a drag on future growth, growth, and it becomes hyperinflationary, is when, logically, governments destroy their currencies, because they can't pay back the debt. But assuming they have to pay back the debt, somebody has to …”
Jeff Booth Apr 30, 2020 ▶ 9:05 When Will Poor Revolt Against Rich? Is Unemployment Good? Currency Pegged To Bitcoin with Jeff Booth
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Booth: Tech Monopolies Inevitably Reconsolidate Because Humans Cannot Handle Infinite Choice
“So even if you now break it back apart, somebody's going to sit on top and consolidate it back.”
Jeff Booth Apr 30, 2020 ▶ 49:48 When Will Poor Revolt Against Rich? Is Unemployment Good? Currency Pegged To Bitcoin with Jeff Booth
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Booth: Allowing technological deflation will reduce the need for jobs
“If you let deflation happen and let the natural order of things happen, you'd need far less of them. You'd, you'd work less. You would the, you would follow the trend and you'd be less, less, less work along the trend.”
Jeff Booth Apr 30, 2020 ▶ 52:47 When Will Poor Revolt Against Rich? Is Unemployment Good? Currency Pegged To Bitcoin with Jeff Booth
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Booth: Bailing Out Companies While Subsidizing Consumers Is an Unsustainable Waste
“At some point, like the system just like, it's just such a colossal waste of money on both, both fronts. And you can't keep doing that.”
Jeff Booth Apr 30, 2020 ▶ 1:14:10 When Will Poor Revolt Against Rich? Is Unemployment Good? Currency Pegged To Bitcoin with Jeff Booth
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