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Brett Scott
Personal blog · asomo.coeconomicsphilosophy
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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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'.
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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?
- The Luddite's Guide to Defending Cash (2023)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-17
- The War on Informality (2023)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-03-18
- Tech doesn't make our lives easier. It makes them faster (2023)2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-07-02
- An open letter to all those building AI in 20252 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2025-10-30
- The Cost of Cash...lessness2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-04
- The Accelerationist Playbook2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-09-17
What Hacker News says?
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…
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on “Tesla Robotaxi”Submitted A Lego model of financial capitalism as a story · 196 points
HN discussionI 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.
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on “A Lego model of financial capitalism”Submitted A Lego Model of Capitalist Central Planning as a story · 68 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Luddite's Guide to Defending Cash (2023) as a story · 54 points
HN discussionSubmitted How generative AI is trying to rip the screaming soul out of the Enlightenment as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted Surveillance Capitalism 2024, Wrapped as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tech doesn't make our lives easier. It makes them faster (2023) as a story · 15 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Stone Soup Theory of Billionaires as a story · 11 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Accelerationist Playbook as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Tolkien Would Rename Palantir Technologies to Orthanc Inc as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted An open letter to all those building AI in 2025 as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Deposit Myth: How a linguistic glitch confuses the hell out of economists as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Capitalism Bad Again as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Global Money System in 10 Pictures as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Visualize Capitalism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Art of Crypto Kayfabe: How the fight between Bitcoin and the Dollar is faked as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Cross-Segment Tension in Global Economy as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Remastering Capitalism as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The best metaphor for money isn't blood, it's a nervous system as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Cost of Cash...lessness as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Outsider's Guide to Payments Censorship as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted The War on Informality (2023) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Tech doesn't make our lives easier. It makes them faster (2023) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Humanity-as-a-Service as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Life on the Tip of the Economic Pyramid as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An open letter to all those building AI in 2025 as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Emotional Guide to Fractional Reserve Banking (2021) as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Whale of Mass Destruction: How Bitcoin FOMO Might Become TBTF as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Against the Factory Farming of Creativity as a story · 1 points
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