Brandon Quittem

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What Bitcoin Did · The Next 10 Years Will Decide Bitcoin’s Future | Brandon Quittem · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

So I think-

it started out in a model that was never going to fit to changes in society.

If you look specifically at the universities here, their budget on administrators went skyrocketing high.

Their teachers are flat.

So they become these epically bloated institutions that attract people who care about the latest thing.

So the DEI departments and the student whatever departments, I think you just create incentives that lead to blow, just like in our government.

The incentive of a government is to become a bigger government.

And so what do they do?

That's what they do.

That's what all institutions do.

And that, I think, is why the fourth turning cycle is healthy for society is because institutions outgrow their mandate through a little bit of corruption, a little bit of apathy, a little bit of just not being fit for the times.

And then we need to have a brush fire in the forest to burn all the dead wood and then redo our institutions, modernize them, make them adaptable to our recent needs.

And I don't want to make it sound like we do this and it's always good.

We just respond to the most recent crisis.

The previous fourth turning, the lesson is we just solved the problems that were directly in front of us.

Doesn't mean we solved them in a good way.

Social security, the model in the US means you pay into the system and then theoretically you get paid later.

But that model only works if every future generation is bigger than the last.

And that's not the case anymore, and the money was never invested, so it doesn't actually keep up with the fiat money printer weighing it down.

So...

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