I bet you’ve noticed it too. Everything we buy just seems cheaper, flimsier, and worse than it used to be. Some call it the "enshittification" of everything.
And almost everyone blames the exact same thing: corporate greed and the failures of capitalism.
In this episode, I’m sharing my take on the real reason our world feels like it's falling apart. I use a simple story about two winemakers to show how this broken fiat system actually punishes honest businesses and heavily rewards the ones cutting corners.
We aren't in a race to the bottom because companies are inherently evil, but because our money forces them to cut corners just to survive. Yet this is actually a solvable problem. We just have to fix the money first.
Chapters
(00:00:00) - The enshittification of everything
(00:01:13) - “Greed” is not an answer
(00:02:29) - Monetary inflation
(00:02:55) - The winemaker story
(00:04:24) - Honest producer squeezed
(00:07:58) - Savings and investment
(00:13:00) - Sound money incentives
(00:15:20) - Monetary inflation rewards crap
(00:17:19) - Beyond wine
(00:20:58) - Capitalism vs central banks
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