Don't Poop In The Well

SHOW NOTES Episode Summary Brian traces the tragedy of the commons from medieval English pastures through Venetian banking to the modern dollar network, arguing that monetary history is the history of shared resources getting captured by whoever is closest to them. He connects this to the deepest pattern in biology — every organism consumes until collapse — and asks what it means that humans are the only species capable of seeing the constraint and choosing differently. Bitcoin is examined as...