I built a simple model to help you visualize the capitalist system www.asomo.co/p/how-to-vis...
How to Visualize Capitalism (Part 1)
A 10-part modular model for seeing the circuitry of our economy
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Brett Scott
@brettscott.bsky.social
I experiment with altered states of monetary consciousness https://www.asomo.co
It's time - our membership is now open! Become a member of Rethinking Economics International to help build a better economics for our futures, our communities and our planet. Join us: rethinkeconomics.org/become-a-mem...
Gentrification is like cutting away the roots of a plant, while preserving the branches in resin. The organic basis of the culture dies, while the appearance remains. My latest piece www.asomo.co/p/the-craft-...
The Craft of Capitalism
How gentrification sands away the rough beauty of Berlin
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I see so many debates right now about whether or not AI increases productivity. My response to these arguments is *who cares?* Here's why youtube.com/shorts/3t2nw...
The LIE they tell us about AI productivity gains
YouTube video by Brett Scott
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I’m a Luddite towards AI because it does cognitive heavy lifting, and that’s a recipe for making your mind muscle weak
We're told that technology makes our lives easier. Bullshit. It makes our lives FASTER, and that's a big difference. In this video I explain youtu.be/gMzchnnWZCU?...
Tech doesn't make our lives easier. It makes them FASTER
YouTube video by Brett Scott / ASOMOCO
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I re-read Tolkien's Lord of the Rings to check whether the Peter Thiel-funded military AI-surveillance companies Palantir and Anduril were abusing the author's legacy. The answer. They definitely are www.asomo.co/p/the-scouri...
The Scouring of Middle Earth
Why Tolkien would rename Palantir Technologies to Orthanc Inc.
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Bitcoin is one of the greatest acts of storytelling ever. An entire movement built around the number 50 www.asomo.co/p/cult-of-th...
Cult of the Black Hole
The Five Pillars of Bitcoin Mysticism
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“As the territory of Mind gets taken over by the AI giants, Deep Humanity becomes the new product for the refugees. You are pushed to find this new commodity within yourself, and to haul it out like felled logs drawn from your inner, hidden rainforest.” My latest essay www.asomo.co/p/humanity-a...
Humanity-as-a-Service
Commoditizing the human touch in the age of AI
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The two modes of censorship, and how they relate to conservatism and the culture wars youtube.com/shorts/XuDzO...
Censorship, Conservatism and the Culture Wars
YouTube video by Brett's Altered States of Monetary Consciousness
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"It often does seem that he sees the White House and Mar-a-Lago as cockpits of a planetary scale mecha fused with his own nervous system, a colossal exoskeleton that he controls through executive orders, which turn his small thoughts into giant globe-spanning punches" www.asomo.co/p/neon-genes...
Neon Genesis USA
Is Trump a mecha pilot?
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I wrote this for anyone who wants to understand the broad conceptual underpinnings of Modern Monetary Theory, or MMT, a paradigm of monetary thinking that conservatives (and, for that matter, that many left-wingers) love to hate Enjoy! www.asomo.co/p/modern-mon...
Modern Monetary Theory: a 10-Part Model
Levelling up my MMT again
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Bob Marley once said, “some people are so poor, all they have is money” What did he mean by this? In a system that requires you to lose your soul in order to win, those who win do not lead lives that we should aspire to In my latest video, I dive deeper into this www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfeV...
Should we pity the rich?
YouTube video by Brett's Altered States of Monetary Consciousness
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In this 20 min video @brettscott.bsky.social explains clearly and in non-technical terms what is at stake as monetary systems go digital, the role of cash, private and state digital money and stablecoins. Convenience vs resilience, surveillance and power and a great casino chip analogy.
Brett Scott@brettscott.bsky.social · 7mo agoWho profits from a world without cash? Hot tip - it isn’t you In this interview with the Dutch channel VPRO, I explain the dynamics of cashless society (aka - the bank dominated society), and how this relates to stablecoins, CBDC and Bitcoin www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNZp...
I see a lot of people fixating on how inflation robs them of purchasing power. That’s reasonable, but never let it distract you from the far bigger robber of purchasing power, which is bosses who constantly try reduce your wages so that shareholders and billionaires can get a bigger slice of the pie
Kudos to the bouncer turning Elon Musk away from the Berlin nightclub. Influence, relationships & power 👇
Brett Scott@brettscott.bsky.social · 6mo agoWhat do the Epstein files tell us about elite loneliness? In my latest essay I explore the fragility of the powerful www.asomo.co/p/the-green-...
What do the Epstein files tell us about elite loneliness? In my latest essay I explore the fragility of the powerful www.asomo.co/p/the-green-...
The Green Room
What the Epstein Files tell us about elite loneliness
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The Big Tech business model: steal the world’s data to build machines to replace the world’s jobs while flooding the internet with slop to make the world doubt reality, and then hope like hell you can escape to outer space before the world’s anger towards you catches fire
Does Trump fit the historical archetype of the 'Stranger King'? In my new video I explore what anthropology can teach us about the new American colonialism and the MAGA movement youtu.be/UQGRWSq0TL0
The Stranger King of Venezuela: the anthropology of Trump's new American colonialism
YouTube video by Brett's Altered States of Monetary Consciousness
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If there’s one thing that I'd like to thank Trump for, it’s in destroying that old 1980s idea that capitalism and state power are somehow separate and incompatible. RIP the old 'state vs market' debate
In this essay I introduce you to the anthropologist Marshall Sahlins’ work on kings, and how it can help us to understand not only the relationship of Venezuelans to Trump, but also the relationship between US Americans and Trump www.asomo.co/p/the-strang...
The Stranger King of Venezuela
An anthropological lens on Trump's American Colonialism
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After many years of resisting, I've decided to finally start an Instagram account. Please do connect with me on there www.instagram.com/brett.scott....
Just in case anyone has become confused by the rhetoric, Trump isn't ‘cutting government’. He's *centralizing government* by cutting any section of it that distributes power away from his inner clique It’s not a dismantling of government. It’s a dismantling of the balance of powers within it
Who profits from a world without cash? Hot tip - it isn’t you In this interview with the Dutch channel VPRO, I explain the dynamics of cashless society (aka - the bank dominated society), and how this relates to stablecoins, CBDC and Bitcoin www.youtube.com/watch?v=VNZp...
Wie profiteert er van een wereld zonder contant geld? | Brett Scott
YouTube video by VPRO Tegenlicht
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A message to anyone campaigning for the four-day week Just call it the three-day weekend
People across the political spectrum can agree that payments censorship is a form of economic strangulation. Protecting cash, then, is something we can all work together on www.youtube.com/shorts/uXcIE...
CASH and the fight against Digital Payments CENSORSHIP
YouTube video by Brett's Altered States of Monetary Consciousness
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Just uploaded! 2025 was the year of the Trump-AI-Crypto Nexus, but it's an unstable cocktail www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHnJ...
2025 in review - The Trump-AI-Crypto Nexus
YouTube video by Brett's Altered States of Monetary Consciousness
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