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Brett Scott

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Brett Scott writes Altered States of Monetary Consciousness, a personal blog at asomo.co about economics and philosophy. Since 2024, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 37 times, most often “The Luddite's Guide to Defending Cash (2023)”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-07, and you can follow it by feed.

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37mentions?
16HN people?
2024–2026first – last linked?
Links on Hacker News per year · peak 25 in 2024

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Why HN links it

HN readers link Brett Scott's essays on money and economics, such as the 'Uberfication' thought experiment on dependence on a single transport institution and 'The War on Informality'.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

I explore the frontiers of modern money and technology, and draw pictures to help you see our economic system with new eyes.

Most-linked posts?

  1. The Luddite's Guide to Defending Cash (2023)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-17
  2. The War on Informality (2023)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-18
  3. Tech doesn't make our lives easier. It makes them faster (2023)
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-02
  4. An open letter to all those building AI in 2025
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-30
  5. The Cost of Cash...lessness
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-04
  6. The Accelerationist Playbook
    2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-17

What Hacker News says?

  1. From https://www.asomo.co/p/the-luddites-guide-to-defending-physi... : > As a thought experiment, imagine if all forms of transport except Uber were removed from our society, resulting in total ‘Uberfication’. What would happen in this ‘convenient’ society? > For a start, you’d notice that your entire ability to move depended on an institution. While the first few weeks of trips might not bug you, over time it would…

    Comment linking /p/the-luddites-guide-to-defending-physical-cash

    on “Tesla Robotaxi”
  2. Submitted A Lego model of financial capitalism as a story · 196 points

    HN discussion
  3. B1FF_PSUVM · 2024-04-05Recommends
    I went off to his https://www.asomo.co/p/the-war-on-informality essay, and found it a good read - the graphic illustrating the small monetary interaction then and now hits hard.

    Comment linking /p/the-war-on-informality

    on “A Lego model of financial capitalism”
  4. Submitted A Lego Model of Capitalist Central Planning as a story · 68 points

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  5. Submitted The Luddite's Guide to Defending Cash (2023) as a story · 54 points

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  6. Submitted How generative AI is trying to rip the screaming soul out of the Enlightenment as a story · 23 points

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  7. Submitted Surveillance Capitalism 2024, Wrapped as a story · 16 points

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  8. Submitted Tech doesn't make our lives easier. It makes them faster (2023) as a story · 15 points

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  9. Submitted The Stone Soup Theory of Billionaires as a story · 11 points

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  10. Submitted The Accelerationist Playbook as a story · 5 points

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  11. Submitted Why Tolkien Would Rename Palantir Technologies to Orthanc Inc as a story · 4 points

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  12. Submitted An open letter to all those building AI in 2025 as a story · 4 points

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  13. Submitted The Deposit Myth: How a linguistic glitch confuses the hell out of economists as a story · 4 points

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  14. Submitted Making Capitalism Bad Again as a story · 3 points

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  15. Submitted The Global Money System in 10 Pictures as a story · 3 points

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  16. Submitted How to Visualize Capitalism as a story · 2 points

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  17. Submitted The Art of Crypto Kayfabe: How the fight between Bitcoin and the Dollar is faked as a story · 2 points

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  18. Submitted Cross-Segment Tension in Global Economy as a story · 2 points

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  19. Submitted Remastering Capitalism as a story · 2 points

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  20. Submitted The best metaphor for money isn't blood, it's a nervous system as a story · 2 points

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  21. Submitted The Cost of Cash...lessness as a story · 2 points

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  22. Submitted The Outsider's Guide to Payments Censorship as a story · 2 points

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  23. Submitted The War on Informality (2023) as a story · 2 points

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  24. Submitted Tech doesn't make our lives easier. It makes them faster (2023) as a story · 1 points

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  25. Submitted Humanity-as-a-Service as a story · 1 points

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  26. Submitted Life on the Tip of the Economic Pyramid as a story · 1 points

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  27. Submitted An open letter to all those building AI in 2025 as a story · 1 points

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  28. Submitted An Emotional Guide to Fractional Reserve Banking (2021) as a story · 1 points

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  29. Submitted The Whale of Mass Destruction: How Bitcoin FOMO Might Become TBTF as a story · 1 points

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  30. Submitted Against the Factory Farming of Creativity as a story · 1 points

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