The Economy of Nothing Podcast

Episode 211

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Bitcoin is just a Pokemon card.
And Walmart just patented your grocery bill.

Mr. Anderson makes the case that Bitcoin isn't money β€” it's a trust exercise in Michael Saylor, backed by the same bonds it was supposed to replace. The boys follow the grift from stablecoins nobody's auditing to a Trump administration debt payoff scheme that ends with Bitcoin worth nothing.

Meanwhile, Walmart has quietly secured two patents for dynamic and machine-learning-driven pricing β€” right as they roll out digital price tags across all 4,600 stores. Your price may vary. It will vary.

They pivot through oil, crony capitalism, Mount Rushmore's dirtiest secret, the MLK memorial quote that got ground off the stone, Iran's nuclear breakout math, and sixty-two kids in Zimbabwe who saw something in 1994 that nobody wants to talk about.

George Carlin is the patron saint of this episode. The aliens already warned us.

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