In this episode of The Peter McCormack Show, I speak with Balaji Srinivasan, founder of the Network School (ns.com).
We discuss the decline of the West, the rise of China, AI disruption, Bitcoin’s role in a collapsing dollar system, and why political polarisation is tearing America apart. Balaji explains why dollar inflation is global taxation, why U.S. empire is unsustainable, and how decentralised technology is reshaping money, media, and geopolitics.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 – Introduction
00:01:32 – West vs East: Power Rebalancing
00:06:33 – Asia Rising & West Declining
00:10:30 – Media Denial & Western Escapism
00:14:00 – Millionaire Migration Maps
00:18:20 – Exponential Collapse Trends Begin
00:20:10 – Red vs Blue vs China vs Internet
00:25:00 – Trade Wars & Tariff Illusions
00:33:05 – Blue America vs Internet
00:39:35 – The US Could Split Geographically
00:43:52 – Dollar Inflation = Global Taxation
00:49:30 – Left & Right Destroying Their Empire
01:07:20 – Super Bitcoinization Already Happening
01:26:00 – The Internet is the New West
01:32:00 – Debt Collapse vs Hyperinflation
01:42:00 – Foreign Trust in the US Collapsing
01:45:00 – Brain Drain: Talent Fleeing America
01:48:00 – India Rising, Fast & Quiet
01:54:00 – Bitcoin vs State Power
02:03:00 – America Cannot Handle Being #2
02:06:00 – Debt & Broken Promises
02:12:00 – Internet = West 3.0
02:14:30 – The Internet Will Replace the Empire
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