Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 days ago
Welcoming master craftsman and philosopher Forrest Landry in dialogue on the deep structures underlying money, power, and inequality in modern civilization.
Starting with fundamental questions about what money really is, we move through an analysis of why inequality has reached unprecedented levels, to urgent questions about artificial intelligence, the future of human choice-making, and a foundational orientation of response.
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Desire, Want and Need on Delicate Fire: youtu.be/rejVuh1Knn8
Chapters
0:00 Introduction: Money, Power & AI
0:55 Lenses for Understanding Money: Choice, Energy & Game Theory
06:12 Why Inequality Exploded: Technology as Extraction Amplifier
29:30 The Three Stages of Mastery: Change, Causation & Choice
41:05 Beyond Capitalism vs Socialism: Upgrading the Game
57:40 The Maker-Taker Inversion: When Extraction Became Valued Over Creation
1:16:08 Virtual vs Virtue: Humility and Being Rooted in Reality
1:26:38 Rewilding Ourselves: Embodiment and Collective Wisdom
1:38:31 Why Everyone's Investing in AI: The Loss of Trust in Ourselves
1:47:40 The Path Forward: Distributed, Embodied, Contextualized Choice-Making
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Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0
Welcoming master craftsman and philosopher Forrest Landry in dialogue on the deep structures underlying money, power, and inequality in modern civilization.
Starting with fundamental questions about what money really is, we move through an analysis of why inequality has reached unprecedented levels, to urgent questions about artificial intelligence, the future of human choice-making, and a foundational orientation of response.
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Access the shownotes & learn more about Voicecraft podcasts, events, courses and membership network @ voicecraft.io/content/e140-money-power-inequality-and-ai-w/-forrest-landry-and-tim-adalin
Desire, Want and Need on Delicate Fire: youtu.be/rejVuh1Knn8
Chapters
0:00 Introduction: Money, Power & AI
0:55 Lenses for Understanding Money: Choice, Energy & Game Theory
06:12 Why Inequality Exploded: Technology as Extraction Amplifier
29:30 The Three Stages of Mastery: Change, Causation & Choice
41:05 Beyond Capitalism vs Socialism: Upgrading the Game
57:40 The Maker-Taker Inversion: When Extraction Became Valued Over Creation
1:16:08 Virtual vs Virtue: Humility and Being Rooted in Reality
1:26:38 Rewilding Ourselves: Embodiment and Collective Wisdom
1:38:31 Why Everyone's Investing in AI: The Loss of Trust in Ourselves
1:47:40 The Path Forward: Distributed, Embodied, Contextualized Choice-Making
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Listen to the full intro song by Cantrips titled 'The Big Break' @ youtu.be/Qaj-stBL4W0
