Jeff Booth: Why Everything Should Be Getting Cheaper – Robert Kiyosaki
Bitcoin and inflation sit at the center of a much bigger debate about money, technology, debt, and the future of the global economy.
In this episode of The Rich Dad Radio Show, Robert Kiyosaki talks with Jeff Booth, entrepreneur and author of The Price of Tomorrow, about why technological progress should make goods and services cheaper—and why many people are experiencing exactly the opposite.
Booth argues that technology naturally creates deflation by allowing businesses and individuals to produce more value with fewer resources. But today’s debt-based monetary system depends on continued growth, monetary expansion, and inflation. As those two forces move in opposite directions, Booth believes governments and central banks face a problem they cannot solve simply by creating more money.
Robert and Jeff examine how this conflict affects asset prices, housing, debt, purchasing power, and the growing divide between people who own assets and those who don’t. They also challenge the assumption that rising prices always represent economic growth, arguing that currency debasement can make assets appear more valuable while money itself loses purchasing power.
Then they turn to Bitcoin.
Booth explains why he views Bitcoin differently from other cryptocurrencies and blockchains. He makes the case that Bitcoin’s scarcity, decentralization, security, and proof-of-work structure could provide an alternative to a monetary system that continually expands the supply of money.
The discussion also explores how artificial intelligence, automation, digital technology, and cheaper energy could accelerate deflation—and why Booth believes those advances make the conflict with an inflationary monetary system even more important to understand.
If technology allows society to do more with less, why should everything keep getting more expensive?
Robert Kiyosaki and Jeff Booth challenge investors to look beyond individual markets and consider the monetary system underneath them. Understanding Bitcoin and inflation may ultimately require asking a bigger question: What happens when rapidly advancing technology collides with a financial system that depends on prices and debt continuing to rise?
00:00 Inequality and Inflation
00:31 Free Market Deflation
01:27 Technology Lowers Prices
03:24 Debt-Fueled Bubble
04:41 System Trap Explained
05:39 From Silver to Fiat
07:32 Why Bitcoin Matters
10:29 Scarcity vs Abundance
12:01 Politics and Base Money
13:19 Bitcoin Discipline Pricing
18:03 Bitcoin vs Altcoins
21:44 Kodak Lesson for Fed
27:12 Digitally Native Currency
29:27 Inflation and Climate
33:30 Closing Thoughts
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