Vinay Gupta (@leashless), CEO of Mattereum, joins Erik on this episode.

They discuss:

- The effects of overconsumption on the environment.

- The breakdown of humanity’s carbon footprint.

- Why we need to optimize waste in the same way that we optimize investment and production.

- How to reduce the perceived fragility of life for those living in poverty.

- Buckminster Fuller’s ambitions and why we’re living in the world that he wanted us to avoid.

- Why Vinay “never trusted the decentralization framework.”

- Why the vast majority of problems caused by poverty can be fixed with half a dozen simple machines but that market capitalism is not able to provide them to those in need.

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