USV's Albert Wenger on the World After Capital

A blueprint for redesigning society as the world shifts from the Industrial Age to the Knowledge Age.

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This episode is sponsored by ErisX, The Stellar Development Foundation and Grayscale Digital Large Cap Investment Fundhttps://grayscale.co/coindesk.

Albert Wenger is a partner at Union Square Ventures as well as a prolific thinker and writer. His “World After Capital” is an evolving digital book project that looks at a set of megatrend shifts as the world moves between economic paradigms from the Industrial Age to the Knowledge Age.

See also: Why Debt Can’t Buy More Growth, Feat. Jeff Booth

In this wide-ranging conversation, he and NLW discuss:

• Why attention is at the center of the new Knowledge Age
• Why markets can’t price crucial needs such as pandemic preparedness
• Why the new era will be defined by three categories of freedoms: economic freedom, information freedom and psychological freedom
• Why universal basic income has an important role to play in economic freedom
• How UBI could avoid political capture
• Why technology is inherently deflationary
• Why real estate, education and health care should be much cheaper than they are
• Why community currencies could be a key innovation from the current crisis

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