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Their wordsIt's all so counterintuitive, but that's only because money and people are actually at odds.
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Central currency is designed to preserve wealth and entrench power rather than promote exchange.
Their wordsCentral currency, our money, has always been about preservation of wealth, entrenchment of power, going up the pyramid, and staying there.
Their wordsIn order for AI companies to make money, we turn physical matter, human labor, and cognition itself, into tokens - while robbing the world of resources, people of liberty, and humanity of thought.
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