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Friends,
What is money, anyway? And what is capitalism? And how are the two intertwined, and are they extricable? Conor MacCabe author of the excellent books, Money and Sins of the Father: Tracing the Decisions that Shaped the Irish Economy. Instead of staying with the obscuring language of economics, Conor and I go into what money and capitalism are from an experiential and historical standpoint. And we talk about the spiritual aspects of money as well, especially in how they’re related to time, the witch trials, and ideas of the future.
I’ve never had a conversation about money like this before, and I was so happy to. Conor is a great writer, a great thinker, and this conversation clarifies so many concepts.
I’m very excited to share AEWCH 76 with you.
In this episode:
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How the language of economics is religiously constructed to keep people out
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The invention of money as we know it now, and why the history we normally get fed is wrong
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How credit is a social technology, and coin and cash were created to change its social relation
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The problems with cashless cultures, and the war on credit unions
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How banking rose as an aspect of imperialism
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How the invention of capitalism relates to the witch trials
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the problem with bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies
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what the inner experience of money is
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what the fuck actually happens when you use money, anyway
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what post-capitalist forms of money could look like, and why philosophical questions about money matter
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how much money makes us happy
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how capitalism is related to time and how those in turn relate to magic and new ageism
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the importance of holding a big vision and doing the on-the-ground activism
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why people with marginalized identities have amazing anti-capitalist strategies
Want to go deeper into the ideas and with the people mentioned on this episode?
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Conner Habib 
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