Brett Scott
Journalist at Freelance
Senior Fellow at The Finance Innovation Lab
Exploring altered states of monetary consciousness. Cloudmoney now out in 9 languages
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1 month ago |
beiner.substack.com | Alexander Beiner |Liv Boeree |Iain McGilchrist |Brett Scott
We’ve released another ten tickets to the first screening of ‘Crossroads’ in London on March 14th, and for Australian readers near Byron Bay, we have a screening on March 22nd at the Byron Bay Theatre. If you’re in Melbourne, I’m running a workshop and speaking at the Wisdom & Action Forum alongside Nora Bateson, Tyson Yunkaporta and Julia Kim on April 1-3. “Where do we go from here?” If we thought we knew the answer, we’d be lying to ourselves.
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Aug 17, 2024 |
realprogressives.substack.com | Real Progressives |Brett Scott
The 2024 fictional film “Civil War” shows an America that has been fractured into armed factions. It’s not the dystopian fantasy that interests us here, however, it’s the collapse of the currency! In the movie, the US dollar has lost its value, like the fate of Confederate money after the (real) US Civil War.
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Mar 8, 2024 |
brettscott.substack.com | Brett Scott
Paying subscribers can access the audio version hereImagine the fiery origins of the earth, with asteroids crashing and depositing debris all over the planet, and volcanos depositing lava. Nowadays this leads us to discover cobalt deposits, gold deposits and iron ore deposits in the earth’s crust. Now picture the Amazon river raging in flood, and bursting out into the Atlantic ocean where it deposits a payload of sand. We might say there’s now a sand deposit that’s been deposited into the ocean.
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Mar 8, 2024 |
asomo.co | Brett Scott
Paying subscribers can access the audio version hereImagine the fiery origins of the earth, with asteroids crashing and depositing debris all over the planet, and volcanos depositing lava. Nowadays this leads us to discover cobalt deposits, gold deposits and iron ore deposits in the earth’s crust. Now picture the Amazon river raging in flood, and bursting out into the Atlantic ocean where it deposits a payload of sand. We might say there’s now a sand deposit that’s been deposited into the ocean.
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Feb 19, 2024 |
brettscott.substack.com | Brett Scott
Paid Subscribers can access the audio version hereAs a kid I was perpetually confused as to what ‘the economy’ was.
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If you want to see me riffing on the tariff see-saw, I joined @kieran_andrieu on Novara Media yesterday to talk about globalisation and Ha-Joon Chang’s concept of ‘kicking away the ladder’. I’m about 8 minutes in, but the whole show is worth watching https://t.co/3qc7P567tb
I know many people are losing their shit over the impact of the tariffs, but here's a periodic reminder that, regardless of the short-to-medium term impact of these, the global economy remains fundamentally ecologically unsustainable and unfit to support life on our planet in
RT @mrauchs: Excellent article by @Suitpossum raising an important issue with the modern gig economy: “self-employed“ content creators have…