E94: NFT volume plummets, California's overreach, FBI meddling, climate change & national security

ℹ️ EPISODE INFO

Released

September 1, 2022

Duration

1h 23m

Channel

All-In Podcast

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📝 EPISODE DESCRIPTION

(0:00) Bestie intros + Burning Man debate (4:16) NFT trading volume plummets (10:20) California's new fast food wages bill, government creating bad incentives, how the free market response will further the labor issue (40:15) Zuckerberg on Rogan, FBI interference with the Hunter Biden laptop story (52:00) Balancing fighting climate change without harming the economy or national security, EU energy policy failure (1:06:04) Besties reflect on Mikhail Gorbachev's passing Follow the besties: https://twitter.com/chamath https://linktr.ee/calacanis https://twitter.com/DavidSacks https://twitter.com/friedberg Follow the pod: https://twitter.com/theallinpod https://linktr.ee/allinpodcast Intro Music Credit: https://rb.gy/tppkzl https://twitter.com/yung_spielburg Intro Video Credit: https://twitter.com/TheZachEffect Referenced in the show: https://cointelegraph.com/news/looks-bare-opensea-turns-into-nft-ghost-town-after-volume-plunges-99-in-90-days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlXSGqvP-A8 https://thefederalist.com/2022/08/30/zuckerbergs-admission-of-fbi-meddling-in-2020-election-is-even-bigger-than-it-seems/ https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/23/us/california-nuclear-power-diablo.html https://www.wsj.com/articles/california-fast-food-wages-would-be-set-by-government-under-bill-passed-by-state-senate-11661811509 #allin #tech #news

🎤 SPEAKERS

• Jason Calacanis

  host

• David Friedberg

  host

• Chamath Palihapitiya

  host

• Narrator

  other

🧾 EPISODE SUMMARY

In this episode of All-In Podcast, featuring Jason Calacanis and David Sacks, E94: NFT volume plummets, California's overreach, FBI meddling, climate change & national security explores all-In crew dissects NFTs, California overreach, FBI, climate, Gorbachev The hosts use a slow news week to range widely from the NFT market collapse to California’s increasingly interventionist policies, AI-driven automation, and the politicization of federal law enforcement. They frame NFTs as another classic speculative bubble built on narrative and greater-fool dynamics rather than durable utility. California’s new fast-food wage board and broader regulatory activism are criticized as economically naïve moves that will accelerate automation, hollow out the middle class, and entrench a one-party patronage system. The FBI’s role in the Hunter Biden laptop story is cited as evidence of dangerous politicization and de facto government-directed censorship by tech platforms. They close with climate change as a genuine but long-term crisis best solved by markets and nuclear power, and with reflections on Gorbachev, Reagan, and how central planning and bad U.S. foreign policy helped land us back in a cold war with Russia.

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