106. Fiat Money beyond economics, with Tom Woods

106. Fiat Money beyond economics, with Tom Woods

February 25th 2022. In this episode, Saifedean appears on The Tom Woods Show for a discussion on how the damage caused by fiat money extends beyond economics. Saifedean and Tom discuss why fiat money increases the power of governments and heightens societal time preference, disincentivising long-term planning. They also talk about the rise of “fiat mentality” and how societal attitudes have changed in areas such as diet, education and energy. They then discuss the “misery industry” of debt-b...

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291. The Fiat Standard Lecture 10: Fiat Fuels

291. The Fiat Standard Lecture 10: Fiat Fuels

The Fiat Standard Lecture 10: Fiat Fuels shows how fiat distorts energy markets replacing reliable hydrocarbons with subsidized unreliable expensive fiat fuels, rewards climate hysteria over engineeri...

16 Sep 20251h 14min

290. The Fiat Standard Lecture 9: Fiat Science

290. The Fiat Standard Lecture 9: Fiat Science

The Fiat Standard Lecture 9: Fiat Science shows how fiat centralizes education and research funding, removes real market feedback, produces meaningless research papers, politicizes science, entraps st...

9 Sep 20251h 21min

289. The Fiat Standard Lecture 8: Fiat Food

289. The Fiat Standard Lecture 8: Fiat Food

The Fiat Standard Lecture 8: Fiat Food explains how fiat destroyed modern food, as governments optimize farming policy & nutritional guidelines to mask inflation, industrial sludge replaces meat & ani...

2 Sep 202549min

288. The Fiat Standard Lecture 7: Fiat Life

288. The Fiat Standard Lecture 7: Fiat Life

The Fiat Standard Lecture 7: Fiat Life discusses how fiat raises time preference, breaks the bond between effort & reward, inventivizes debt, erodes culture, & undermines families. Bitcoin, as hard mo...

26 Aug 202548min

287. The Fiat Standard Lecture 6: What Is Fiat Good For?

287. The Fiat Standard Lecture 6: What Is Fiat Good For?

Fiat's superior salability across space enabled global adoption, financed governments, & entrenched fractional-reserve banks, at the cost of losing value across time. You can buy the hardcover, ebook ...

19 Aug 202552min

286. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 5: Fiat Balances: Universal Debt Slavery

286. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 5: Fiat Balances: Universal Debt Slavery

The Fiat Standard Lecture 5: Fiat Balances shows how fiat’s unquantifiable, irreconcilable, tentative, revocable, and negative balances kill saving, reward debt, and lock in servitude, unlike Bitcoin’...

12 Aug 202548min

285. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 4 - Fiat Mining

285. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 4 - Fiat Mining

Lecture 4 of The Fiat Standard explains how fiat is mined through credit creation, incentivizing everyone to get into debt, causing prices to rise, which is covered up with the nonsensical CPI. Saylor...

5 Aug 20251h 2min

284. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 3 - Fiat Technology

284. The Fiat Standard: Lecture 3 - Fiat Technology

Lecture 3 of The Fiat Standard explains the underlying technology behind fiat: a centralized network where money is created from credit expansion, devaluing existing holders' wealth, externalizing def...

29 Jul 202542min

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