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“This is the root of our cultural concern for crypto DeFi. The cultural, and arguably even structural, commitment to financialization is extremely difficult to reconcile

“This is the root of our cultural concern for crypto DeFi. The cultural, and arguably even structural, commitment to financialization is extremely difficult to reconcile

This is the full, unabridged reading of Alex Gladstein’s work, “STRUCTURAL ADJUSTMENT: HOW THE IMF AND WORLD BANK REPRESS POOR COUNTRIES AND FUNNEL THEIR RESOURCES

“Research from Mexico — a typical country in terms of consistent involvement historically from the Bank and Fund — shows that for every 2% decrease

“The “generosity” of the West enabled unaccountable leaders to plunge their nations into debt deeper than ever before. The system was, as Payer writes in

“Far from playing the role of good samaritan, the Fund does not even follow the timeless human tradition, established more than 4,000 years ago by

“To give an example of what this might look like in a given year, in 2012 developing countries received $1.3 trillion, including all income, aid

“A 2014 analysis showed that the IMF had attached, on average, 20 conditions to each loan it gave out in the previous two years, a

There are about a million claims out there as to what blockchains are going to fix, and how NFTs are going to be used to

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“They just freelanced it,” is how one former employee characterized the decision. “Hacking was the excuse, but within a few hours, pretty much everyone realized

“We believe the core of the cultural fissure between crypto and bitcoin comes down to financialization. While the ethos of bitcoin is to definancialize, the

“One counterargument might be that the de facto state capture of Ethereum in gradually becoming more and more OFAC compliant could, at the same time,
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