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Power

This Is How the World Really Works

Simon Dixon
Episode 179 · 1h 48m · Published 27th May 2026 · Recorded in London
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About this episode

Simon Dixon returns to explain what happens when AI, money, media and power all start moving in the same direction.

Simon argues that the world is entering a new phase: one shaped by artificial intelligence, programmable money, algorithmic control, financial capture and a growing pressure to become dependent on systems you do not control.

Simon and I discuss why AI may be the most important opportunity of our lifetime, why small businesses can now build tools that once required entire teams, why politics may no longer be the route to change, and why the answer may be to stop waiting for the system to improve and start building your own world.

This is the golden pill: understand the system, stop despairing, use the tools, own assets that cannot easily be captured, and become sovereign.

Chapters

00:00Take the Golden Pill
01:22Are We Slaves to the Algorithm?
02:50Freedom of Speech, Not Freedom of Reach
07:27Is Media Just About Power?
10:00Why Scale Gets Captured
13:08Bitcoin, Self-Custody and Sovereignty
17:29What Is at Stake?
20:11Building With AI
25:18AI and the Software Apocalypse
26:33You're Done, You're Cooked
30:49These Companies Can Turn You Off
31:37Is China Winning Open-Source AI?
36:53Money Printing, BlackRock and the Fed
40:05World War III or Currency War?
48:01The Petrodollar Is Breaking
1:01:20Before It Was Ships, Now It's AI
1:05:26Politics Is Gone
1:18:54London Is Cooked
1:29:43The Golden Pill
1:44:52Advice to Young People