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@johnharrison Avatar @johnharrison John Harrison

John Harrison posts on X about money, deflation, inflation, bitcoin the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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Social category influence finance cryptocurrencies automotive brands technology brands

Social topic influence money, deflation #74, inflation #1846, bitcoin, fiat #538, debt, ai, theory, world of, productivity

Top assets mentioned Bitcoin (BTC)

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"Let's start with what he actually says. On the podcast Zack is clear that hes a socialist. He says the Green Party is a socialist party. He talks about a radical transformation of the economy. The villain in his story is capitalism plus global corporations. He links them to sewage in rivers fossil fuel firms destroying our planet supermarkets squeezing farmers landlords and property developers exploiting renters. He talks about multimillionaires and billionaires hoarding wealth. He argues you cannot tackle inequality or environmental damage without challenging wealth and power"
X Link 2025-11-30T23:49Z 2402 followers, XXX engagements

"Another reason people turn to socialism is that progress doesnt seem to give them time back. People are working harder than ever yet they dont feel more secure. I think thats because productivity gains from technology are being bled off through inflation and credit expansion. If prices were allowed to fall with rising productivity lower prices would be higher real wages"
X Link 2025-12-10T08:31Z 2394 followers, XX engagements

"Under hard money and real tech deflation your savings would tend to buy more each year. Essentials like food energy and basic goods would take a smaller share of your income. You could choose to work less or focus on different things earlier in life. Socialism wants that end state but tries to reach it by forcing outcomes from the top down. A soundmoney freermarket system moves towards it by removing coercion and letting technology do what it naturally does: Make things cheaper"
X Link 2025-12-10T08:31Z 2394 followers, XX engagements

"@balajis I tend to run two or three separate projects at the same time in chatgpt. Three concurrent chats tends to mean I'm always working on one reducing waiting time. Would you consider this context switching"
X Link 2025-12-10T10:41Z 2394 followers, XX engagements

"CBDCs (central bank digital currencies) make this explicit. They turn money into code that can be frozen redirected or time limited with a few lines of policy. AI under fiat tends to amplify central control because the productivity it creates has to be skimmed to keep the debt system going"
X Link 2025-12-10T12:48Z 2402 followers, XX engagements

"Control moves to the protocol which has fixed transparent rules and to the edges your keys your node your choices. Governments still exist in a Bitcoin world. They still tax they still pass laws. But it becomes much harder to quietly steal through debasement or build a programmable cage around money"
X Link 2025-12-10T12:48Z 2394 followers, XX engagements

"That combination matters. If centralised AI systems trained on the worlds data become the main interface to what we see and do and theyre wired into fiat digital ID and programmable money you end up with a genuine kill switch risk on speech and economic participation"
X Link 2025-12-10T22:06Z 2402 followers, XX engagements

"Now flip the base layer. Imagine the same AI robotics 3D printing and cheap energy stack in a world where prices are allowed to fall because the money doesnt depend on inflation. Hard money like Bitcoin is one example: X. Fixed supply X. No central issuer X. No quiet debasement"
X Link 2025-12-10T22:06Z 2403 followers, XX engagements

"In simple terms Modern Monetary Theory says: If a government issues its own currency it cant run out of money like a household. The real limits on spending are inflation and real resources (people skills energy materials). Taxes then mainly: X. Create demand for the currency X. Remove money from circulation to keep inflation in check"
X Link 2025-12-11T09:15Z 2405 followers, XX engagements

"That has secondorder effects. If you can create money at will war becomes easier to finance because the immediate pain is hidden. You cant print energy only claims on energy so if claims grow faster than real supply you get either rising prices (often blamed on greed) or price caps and shortages. On the environment just spend more can mean more consumption pushed through a distorted price system rather than hard tradeoffs driven by honest prices"
X Link 2025-12-11T09:15Z 2405 followers, XX engagements

"Now contrast that with bitcoin. Bitcoin has a fixed supply and no central authority that can add units to paper over mistakes. In that kind of system public projects have to be funded by explicit taxes or voluntary investment. Technologydriven productivity gains show up as lower prices and savings that buy more not as everhigher nominal prices"
X Link 2025-12-11T09:15Z 2405 followers, XX engagements

"That doesnt mean no government or no safety net. It means the debate shifts from how much can we print to what are we willing to tax ourselves for. You can still choose solidarity and public goods but you cant hide their cost inside a changing unit of account. The money stops being the steering wheel and goes back to being a measuring stick"
X Link 2025-12-11T09:15Z 2405 followers, XX engagements

"So I see MMT and a hardmoney approach like bitcoin as opposite responses to the same problem: A highly leveraged fiat system running into exponential technology. MMT says centralise more power over money and manage harder. Hard money says fix the base layer so it cant be manipulated let prices tell the truth and then build voluntary and transparent institutions on top"
X Link 2025-12-11T09:15Z 2405 followers, XX engagements

"Your ability to speak and to earn increasingly depends on algorithms and policies you do not control written by institutions that sit close to existing power. That's a form of centralisation at the level of communication and livelihood not just at the level of money"
X Link 2025-12-11T18:46Z 2402 followers, XX engagements

"The internet is a good example. Its original architecture was decentralised with open protocols that anyone could build on. But the winning business models were centralising built on data capture targeted advertising and growth funded by cheap credit"
X Link 2025-12-11T18:47Z 2402 followers, XX engagements

"If the most powerful models data and payment rails sit inside a small cluster of companies and states you get behaviour scoring predictive policing automated censorship and programmable money all wired together. In a stressed system that's unlikely to mean more freedom"
X Link 2025-12-11T18:48Z 2402 followers, XX engagements

"In that kind of world the tax base looks different. If prices mostly fall as technology advances governments cannot quietly inflate away their debts. They have to live closer to their means and justify tax more clearly. Places then have to compete on rule of law quality of services and reasonable taxes to attract people and capital instead of leaning on the printing press when they make bad decisions"
X Link 2025-12-09T02:42Z 2404 followers, XX engagements

"It is easier to see this with concrete examples. Think about a young renter saving in cash while house prices race away. Their landlord who already owns several places sees them rise every time new money floods the system. The renter blames greedy landlords and wants higher property taxes but the real accelerant was low rates and money printing. Fix the money and the gap shrinks so the pressure to tax the landlord falls too"
X Link 2025-12-09T02:42Z 2405 followers, XX engagements

"MMT sounds like a simple answer to a fair question. If governments can create their own money why are we told theres no money for basic services This thread walks through how MMT really works where I think it goes wrong and what would actually help:"
X Link 2025-12-11T09:15Z 2404 followers, XXX engagements

"In a debtbased fiat system that kind of deflation is dangerous. If prices fall while debts are fixed the real burden of debt rises and defaults cascade. To prevent that the system is designed around steady inflation. Inflation isnt a law of nature. Its a policy choice to keep a fragile credit structure intact. MMT accepts that structure and leans into it. Because the state can always spend it should use that lever more openly to push demand and maintain full employment"
X Link 2025-12-11T09:15Z 2405 followers, XX engagements

"This is where his view overlaps with MMT. A sovereign issuer can always produce more of its own currency and the main real constraint is inflation. I dont dispute that description of fiat mechanics. I just dont think its a stable foundation in a world of exponential technology"
X Link 2025-12-11T12:18Z 2404 followers, XX engagements

"Thats why I keep coming back to Bitcoin + techdriven deflation: A hard monetary base. A world of increasing efficiency. Less need for constant intervention more room for honest signals"
X Link 2025-12-11T12:20Z 2404 followers, XX engagements

"That's the path of increasing centralisation. More debt more intervention more detailed surveillance and less room for dissent or exit. It's not a sign of confidence. It's what a fragile system does to try to protect itself from the truth of technological deflation"
X Link 2025-12-11T18:48Z 2407 followers, XX engagements

"Seen through this lens you can place other popular ideas. Heavy central planning and socialism assume committees can know and act better than decentralised discovery. Modern Monetary Theory doubles down on state control of money. Tax the rich debates often ignore the base layer"
X Link 2025-12-11T18:50Z 2406 followers, XX engagements

"When technology naturally wants to reduce spending and prices it makes that debt burden harder to sustain. So the response is predictable: Print more money hold rates artificially low push more borrowing and design policies that prop up nominal GDP. The system ends up fighting deflation even when it comes from genuine productivity gains"
X Link 2025-12-12T11:34Z 2405 followers, XX engagements

"On a Bitcoin standard where you cant just create more money to paper over problems and prices are allowed to fall as technology improves GDP would lose its status as the main measure of progress. Reported GDP growth might look lower but your wages would buy more over time and real living standards could rise faster"
X Link 2025-12-12T11:34Z 2404 followers, XX engagements

"@KyleSt4rgarden Hell no"
X Link 2025-12-13T08:40Z 2404 followers, XX engagements

"On CPI I agree with Mike that most statisticians are not evil masterminds. They're trying to measure something messy. I also agree the basket and quality adjustments tend to track rich peoples consumption more than poor peoples. But there's a bigger issue"
X Link 2025-12-13T18:32Z 2407 followers, XX engagements

"CPI is a thermometer and a policy lever. When the system needs inflation you'll naturally choose baskets weights and methods that keep the headline number in a politically comfortable range. At the same time you hide the deflation that should be there"
X Link 2025-12-13T18:32Z 2407 followers, XX engagements

"So yes poorer households see higher effective inflation than CPI suggests. More importantly the entire framework hides the deflation that never arrives. Technology should be delivering much lower prices in many areas. Instead the gains show up mostly in asset values"
X Link 2025-12-13T18:32Z 2407 followers, XX engagements

"That credible neutrality and credible scarcity matter. They give younger people a way to store their time and effort in something that doesn't depend on the same institutions that failed them. They also prevent supply from expanding to bail out yesterdays mistakes"
X Link 2025-12-13T18:33Z 2407 followers, X engagements

"Over time a base like that forces more of technologys deflation to appear as lower prices not just higher asset values. It doesn't fix everything. But it changes the pattern. That's why I dont put Bitcoin in the same bucket as meme stocks or leveraged speculation"
X Link 2025-12-13T18:33Z 2407 followers, XX engagements