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The Cycle of Moral and Economic Authority in Politics
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The relationship between moral authority and economic authority is cyclical. The loss of moral authority leads to a loss of economic authority, and vice versa. In the late 1800s, Republicans turned their moral authority into economic authority, but this shifted in the following 50 years as their loss of moral authority led to the loss of their economic authority.

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The podcast explores the relationship between moral and economic authority over time, with examples of how Republicans turned their moral authority into economic authority in the late 1800s and how loss of moral authority can lead to loss of economic authority in modern times.
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Moral Authority
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The podcast explores the relationship between moral and economic authority over time, with examples of how Republicans turned their moral authority into economic authority in the late 1800s and how loss of moral authority can lead to loss of economic authority in modern times.

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The Cycle of Moral and Economic Authority in Politics
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#331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA
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Lex Fridman Podcast
The Bitcoin maximalists believe in decentralization and criticize both capitalist and anti-capitalist ideologies for allowing the concentration of power and wealth.
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Bitcoin
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The Bitcoin maximalists believe in decentralization and criticize both capitalist and anti-capitalist ideologies for allowing the concentration of power and wealth. They argue that woke, communist, and crypto capital are all part of the same problem of centralization.

Chapter
The Cycle of Moral and Economic Authority in Politics
Episode
#331 – Balaji Srinivasan: How to Fix Government, Twitter, Science, and the FDA
Podcast
Lex Fridman Podcast