About this episode
Brian explores the reasons why people avoid discussing inflation and connects it to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's challenge to Soviet citizens, relating it to Bitcoin's significance today.
Why do smart people go quiet when you explain inflation to them? They hear the words. They understand the logic. And then they change the subject. In this episode, Brian explores what's really happening in that moment — and why Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's challenge to Soviet citizens in 1974 may be the most relevant framework for understanding Bitcoin's role in the world today. The lie doesn't survive because powerful people enforce it. It survives because ordinary people participate in it — eve...
People in this episode
Host: Brian
Topics covered
- inflation
- Bitcoin
- Soviet Union
- truth
- economics
Keywords
- inflation
- Bitcoin
- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
- Soviet citizens
- truth
- economics
- lie
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