Reddit mentions of Life Inc: How Corporatism Conquered the World, and How We Can Take It Back

> I agree with you there. What seems a bit left of field to me is this view that we should abandon trading in the dollar and instead move to some anonymous crypto-currency. I can't understand what he hopes to achieve by this or how a country can effectively be run when most people use a currency that makes tax avoidance an impossible thing to clamp down on.

Yeah, I can't say I know enough about monetary/currency policy to have a very informed opinion... I do remember reading a few things in the past that made me think that there could possibly be better ways of doing things. One, I think, was this book: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Inc-Corporatism-Conquered-World/dp/0812978501/ref=asap_bc?ie=UTF8 and another interesting thinker around alternate economic realities is Jaron Lanier. All of these people, including Bret despite his protestations, do come off as a bit utopian... in a sort of silicon valley, this app will change the world kind of way... but at the same time, I think you have to have a bit of that self-confidence to really entertain largely impactful changes in our economic system.

My reading on his reaction to Joe's mention of crypto-currency was that he was allowing for that comparison to be made but I didn't assume that he was saying that it would remain un-taxable... again, I don't know enough but I would imagine there could be a system devised that allowed for a greater segmenting of currency and allow for taxation?