Archive - Altered States of Monetary Consciousness

Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster

Breaking through the illusion of convenience that's used to sell us automation

Oct 4, 2023 • Brett Scott

The Global Money System in 10 Pictures

The see-sawing webs that hold the world together, and rip us apart

Sep 5, 2025 • Brett Scott

The War on Informality

What seven hours in London teaches me about surveillance capitalism

Dec 19, 2023 • Brett Scott

A Lego Model of Financial Capitalism

Unboxing the dark arts of finance

Apr 4, 2024 • Brett Scott

The Stone Soup Theory of Billionaires

An antidote to Great Man theories of history

Nov 14, 2024 • Brett Scott

The untold story of the hole in Bitcoin's heart

Jul 22, 2021 • Brett Scott

The Three-Faced Interface

The evolution of corporate personhood in the age of AI

May 26, 2024 • Brett Scott

The Casino-Chip Society

Why learning to see the layers of money will reveal the politics of 'cashless society', and much more

Nov 30, 2022 • Brett Scott

A Lego Model of Corporate Capitalism

Our economic circuit, brick by brick

Jan 18, 2024 • Brett Scott

Intro to Economic Life 1: Creatures on a Planet

Interdependence, and the foundations of value

Feb 22, 2024 • Brett Scott

Surveillance Capitalism 2024, Wrapped

How spying-as-a-service now gets sent to us as a Christmas present

Dec 23, 2024 • Brett Scott

Making Capitalism Bad Again

How ditching the cognitive dissonance of liberalism makes some men feel secure once more

Sep 17, 2025 • Brett Scott

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