Brett Scott
@brettscott.bsky.social
I experiment with altered states of monetary consciousness https://www.asomo.co
Politicians spend a lot of time talking about how to promote economic growth, but they spend almost no time figuring out how to make that economic growth actually improve your life
The true shortage in our world is not growth in stuff or technology. It’s growth in things that really matter
The true shortage in our world is not growth in stuff or technology. It’s growth in things that really matter
December 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Politicians spend a lot of time talking about how to promote economic growth, but they spend almost no time figuring out how to make that economic growth actually improve your life
The true shortage in our world is not growth in stuff or technology. It’s growth in things that really matter
The true shortage in our world is not growth in stuff or technology. It’s growth in things that really matter
Is Black Friday a SPELL?
www.youtube.com/shorts/2pENw...
www.youtube.com/shorts/2pENw...
Is Black Friday is a SPELL? / #capitalism #consumerism
YouTube video by Brett's Altered States of Monetary Consciousness
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November 27, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Is Black Friday a SPELL?
www.youtube.com/shorts/2pENw...
www.youtube.com/shorts/2pENw...
Joe Lonsdale - co-founder of surveillance corporation Palantir, Trump donor and libertarian sea-steader - argues that limiting campaign donations is an attack on free speech, given that you spend to get heard.
His message: the more money you have, the more free speech you get
His message: the more money you have, the more free speech you get
November 27, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Joe Lonsdale - co-founder of surveillance corporation Palantir, Trump donor and libertarian sea-steader - argues that limiting campaign donations is an attack on free speech, given that you spend to get heard.
His message: the more money you have, the more free speech you get
His message: the more money you have, the more free speech you get
Just uploaded! How the dark wizards of marketing conjured Black Friday www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie4-...
How the dark wizards of marketing conjured Black Friday
YouTube video by Brett's Altered States of Monetary Consciousness
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November 25, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Just uploaded! How the dark wizards of marketing conjured Black Friday www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie4-...
Cashless is not progress
www.youtube.com/shorts/SbpXC...
www.youtube.com/shorts/SbpXC...
Why fight #cashless society?
YouTube video by Brett's Altered States of Monetary Consciousness
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November 21, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Cashless is not progress
www.youtube.com/shorts/SbpXC...
www.youtube.com/shorts/SbpXC...
Just uploaded! What David Graeber can teach us about narco gangs, your boss and airport queues www.youtube.com/watch?v=T39n...
What David Graeber can teach us about narco gangs
YouTube video by Brett's Altered States of Monetary Consciousness
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November 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Just uploaded! What David Graeber can teach us about narco gangs, your boss and airport queues www.youtube.com/watch?v=T39n...
Any academic discipline that treats power as if it doesn't exist, exists to protect the powerful
Ahem…
Ahem…
November 13, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Any academic discipline that treats power as if it doesn't exist, exists to protect the powerful
Ahem…
Ahem…
Silicon Valley is like a incubator for adult kids who want to build paternalistic technology that will follow us around like an overbearing parent who disguises their control as helpfulness and concern
November 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Silicon Valley is like a incubator for adult kids who want to build paternalistic technology that will follow us around like an overbearing parent who disguises their control as helpfulness and concern
How the ancient parable of the stone soup helps us think about billionaires youtube.com/shorts/KWlH0...
Billionaire stone soup #economy #bigtech #billionaire
YouTube video by Brett's Altered States of Monetary Consciousness
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November 10, 2025 at 3:06 PM
How the ancient parable of the stone soup helps us think about billionaires youtube.com/shorts/KWlH0...
Never think of money in absolute terms. It's a *relative* concept
For example, if everyone had a billion dollars, it would be the equivalent of everyone having 0 dollars. It’s the relative differences in money holdings that give a billionaire power in society, rather than absolute amount held
For example, if everyone had a billion dollars, it would be the equivalent of everyone having 0 dollars. It’s the relative differences in money holdings that give a billionaire power in society, rather than absolute amount held
November 4, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Never think of money in absolute terms. It's a *relative* concept
For example, if everyone had a billion dollars, it would be the equivalent of everyone having 0 dollars. It’s the relative differences in money holdings that give a billionaire power in society, rather than absolute amount held
For example, if everyone had a billion dollars, it would be the equivalent of everyone having 0 dollars. It’s the relative differences in money holdings that give a billionaire power in society, rather than absolute amount held
Reposted by Brett Scott
A Lego Model of Financial Capitalism
Unboxing the dark arts of finance
www.asomo.co
November 3, 2025 at 3:36 PM
Just uploaded! A message for anyone building AI in 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aYQ...
A message for anyone building AI in 2025
YouTube video by Brett's Altered States of Monetary Consciousness
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November 3, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Just uploaded! A message for anyone building AI in 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9aYQ...
They say billionaires create jobs. I say jobs create billionaires
October 31, 2025 at 1:50 PM
They say billionaires create jobs. I say jobs create billionaires
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*MUST READ* #AI
October 30, 2025 at 4:42 PM
*MUST READ* #AI
Reposted by Brett Scott
'It’s not impossible for forms of good to come out of new technology, but your mantra should be: I assume this thing will turn out bad, but I’ll be pleasantly surprised if it doesn’t.'
October 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
'It’s not impossible for forms of good to come out of new technology, but your mantra should be: I assume this thing will turn out bad, but I’ll be pleasantly surprised if it doesn’t.'
An open letter to all those building AI in 2025
Face the nightmare before you buy into the dream
www.asomo.co
October 30, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Screw cashless. Pay bankless www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1q5...
October 28, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Screw cashless. Pay bankless www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1q5...
Billionaire transhumanists who seek immortality want to defeat death, but this also means they want to defeat birth & rebirth
That attempt to break cycles of renewal and decay isn’t a celebration of life. It’s an attempt to make life more like death, stable & endless rather than fleeting & precious
That attempt to break cycles of renewal and decay isn’t a celebration of life. It’s an attempt to make life more like death, stable & endless rather than fleeting & precious
October 27, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Billionaire transhumanists who seek immortality want to defeat death, but this also means they want to defeat birth & rebirth
That attempt to break cycles of renewal and decay isn’t a celebration of life. It’s an attempt to make life more like death, stable & endless rather than fleeting & precious
That attempt to break cycles of renewal and decay isn’t a celebration of life. It’s an attempt to make life more like death, stable & endless rather than fleeting & precious
My latest YouTube video: Corporate capitalism explained in 10 minutes... using Lego
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu8S...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu8S...
Corporate capitalism explained with Lego
YouTube video by Brett's Altered States of Monetary Consciousness
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October 23, 2025 at 12:42 PM
My latest YouTube video: Corporate capitalism explained in 10 minutes... using Lego
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu8S...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu8S...
"To countless low-wage employees across the world, low-cost products will seem attractive - even ‘liberatory’ - but, when you zoom out, they are the ones cheaply producing the cheap things that are being sold back to them."
www.asomo.co/p/bufferland
www.asomo.co/p/bufferland
Bufferland
How corporations violate us and make their employees suffer for it
www.asomo.co
October 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
"To countless low-wage employees across the world, low-cost products will seem attractive - even ‘liberatory’ - but, when you zoom out, they are the ones cheaply producing the cheap things that are being sold back to them."
www.asomo.co/p/bufferland
www.asomo.co/p/bufferland
My latest piece is inspired by London Gatwick airport
It’s called Bufferland: How corporations violate us and make their employees suffer for it
www.asomo.co/p/bufferland
It’s called Bufferland: How corporations violate us and make their employees suffer for it
www.asomo.co/p/bufferland
Bufferland
How corporations violate us and make their employees suffer for it
www.asomo.co
October 17, 2025 at 11:40 AM
My latest piece is inspired by London Gatwick airport
It’s called Bufferland: How corporations violate us and make their employees suffer for it
www.asomo.co/p/bufferland
It’s called Bufferland: How corporations violate us and make their employees suffer for it
www.asomo.co/p/bufferland
In a cashless society you’re permanently fused to Big Finance and Big Tech with no way to escape. In this video I give 10 reasons for why that's a bad way to arrange our economy and society, and why we need to promote cash to keep a balance of power www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1q5...
10 Reasons to Fight Cashless Society
YouTube video by Brett's Altered States of Monetary Consciousness
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October 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
In a cashless society you’re permanently fused to Big Finance and Big Tech with no way to escape. In this video I give 10 reasons for why that's a bad way to arrange our economy and society, and why we need to promote cash to keep a balance of power www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1q5...
Sometimes I like to visualize things to make them seem less alien, because when things seem less alien, your ability to act increases
Rather than the financial sector appearing as an obscure and complex realm of shadows, it becomes a space you can mess with www.asomo.co/p/the-ten-la...
Rather than the financial sector appearing as an obscure and complex realm of shadows, it becomes a space you can mess with www.asomo.co/p/the-ten-la...
October 7, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Sometimes I like to visualize things to make them seem less alien, because when things seem less alien, your ability to act increases
Rather than the financial sector appearing as an obscure and complex realm of shadows, it becomes a space you can mess with www.asomo.co/p/the-ten-la...
Rather than the financial sector appearing as an obscure and complex realm of shadows, it becomes a space you can mess with www.asomo.co/p/the-ten-la...
When someone attacks a marginalized person, it’s very seldom justified by saying 'I don't like them'. Rather, it’s justified by saying ‘they are dangerous’
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October 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
When someone attacks a marginalized person, it’s very seldom justified by saying 'I don't like them'. Rather, it’s justified by saying ‘they are dangerous’
(1/5)
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I visualized the ten layers of finance, from sunlight and soil to sliced synthetic CDOs
www.asomo.co/p/the-ten-la...
www.asomo.co/p/the-ten-la...
October 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
I visualized the ten layers of finance, from sunlight and soil to sliced synthetic CDOs
www.asomo.co/p/the-ten-la...
www.asomo.co/p/the-ten-la...