I watched the video in full. It was definitely interesting. Thank you for sharing it. China has been proactively engaging in IP theft. At the same time they are pushing education towards STEM in an unhealthy way while USA and the aligned nations are making their blunders.
One complain I have about the speakers is that they see class instead of the individuals. For an example, those who got rich during the development of USA did not go to East to enjoy a repeat. The Eastern had their own billionaires. Having a view that see class blinds people to individuals in action and only end up seeing aggregates.
As for BTC, I am more of a believer in the "Bitcoin Lab Leak Theory" because I have seen enough bureaucracy and chaos from government and Military Industrial Complex.
It was a pleasure to hear Douglas Engelbart name dropped. More people needs to learn about him. I only learned about him very recently.
https://inleo.io/@vimukthi/did-you-know-about-online-system-the-mother-of-all-demos
The idea of product backed fiat is really not a fiat. HIVE, KOIN etc. are product backed fiat as per my understanding and the term itself sounds like an oxymoron. Backing a cryptocurrency with a service is basically a digital commodity. I think Mathew Crawford needs to learn to sell his ideas properly. He might be alienating people who would have been onboard with his ideas. He cannot get his foot in the door because he is using terms that do not even fully fit the thing he is describing.