Episode Transcript: #468 - Duncan Trussell, Christopher Ryan
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It feels weird when you break up conversations like this.
But wasn't the idea about gold and precious minerals being there's very few of them.
There's a finite amount so that this is a good thing to base money on because it's, you know, people sort of always kind of recognize there's got to be like a way to put a cap on it.
Yes.
Got a way, the way to keep this thing, it doesn't totally make sense for controlling everything about, I mean, you think about what money really is.
It's so bizarre.
Because it's not human, okay?
It's not thinking, but it seems to be an organism.
It seems to be something that requires you to love it.
So it allows you to connect yourself to all these material items that fill up this weird hole in your idea of the world.
I'll tell you what it is.
It fills up holes of perception.
It's a Western god, right?
Because it's power hungry.
It accumulates power.
It's jealous.
It doesn't want any other currencies in existence.
It wants to control the market.
And it only works if everybody believes in it.
That's a dark way to put it.