The Crisis from Crypto

Global Humanist Shoptalk

In this second miniseries of Season 2, "Global Finance", we're wrestling with the strangeness of living in a world that aspires to a level of global integration our current systems can't support - and maybe don't want to. The rise of cryptocurrency has many stories attached to it: some about wanting to change the world, some about exploiting the world in new ways. In this episode, we reflect on the deeper story: the fact that we're hungry for alternative financial relationships in the first place. How else can we answer that underlying need for global reform?

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