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E140| Money, Power, Inequality and AI w/ Forrest Landry

Dec 6, 2025
1h 53m

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Episode Description

Welcoming master craftsman and philosopher Forrest Landry in dialogue on the deep structures underlying money, power, and inequality in modern civilization.

Starting with fundamental questions about what money really is, we move through an analysis of why inequality has reached unprecedented levels, to urgent questions about artificial intelligence, the future of human choice-making, and a foundational orientation of response.


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Desire, Want and Need on Delicate Fire: https://youtu.be/rejVuh1Knn8

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Chapters


0:00 Introduction: Money, Power & AI

0:55 Lenses for Understanding Money: Choice, Energy & Game Theory

06:12 Why Inequality Exploded: Technology as Extraction Amplifier

29:30 The Three Stages of Mastery: Change, Causation & Choice

41:05 Beyond Capitalism vs Socialism: Upgrading the Game

57:40 The Maker-Taker Inversion: When Extraction Became Valued Over Creation

1:16:08 Virtual vs Virtue: Humility and Being Rooted in Reality

1:26:38 Rewilding Ourselves: Embodiment and Collective Wisdom

1:38:31 Why Everyone's Investing in AI: The Loss of Trust in Ourselves

1:47:40 The Path Forward: Distributed, Embodied, Contextualized Choice-Making


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Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ https://youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0

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