What Bitcoin Did

How The State Makes Us Poorer | Max Hillebrand


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"We are taught that the state builds our economy, but the reality is that every act of intervention is an act of wealth destruction."

Max Hillebrand joins the show to tear down the Keynesian fallacies that keep us in a cycle of manufactured poverty and systemic theft. We go deep into the Austrian framework to explain why privacy isn't just a tech feature, it is the bedrock of a free economy.

We discuss:\

  • The Theft Trap: Why taxation and inflation are definitionally coercion, and how they silently redistribute wealth from the productive to the state. \
  • The Broken Window Fallacy: Why building things we don’t need and destroying wealth through war is the ultimate economic delusion. \
  • The Consumption Trap: How state-manipulated metrics like GDP force us to prioritise over-consumption over the savings required for actual prosperity. \
  • The Minimum Wage Fallacy: A practical breakdown of why state interventions inevitably price the most vulnerable workers out of the market. \
  • The Cypherpunk Solution: Why increasing the cost of state attack and decreasing the cost of private defense is our only path to an unstoppable, parallel economy.
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