The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047 (by Lionel Shriver)
Bitcoin Study Sessions · Grant Reichert & Lucas Maddy
January 3, 20262h 3m
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Show Notes
<p>We just unpacked <strong>The Mandibles</strong>—and it feels less like fiction every year.</p>
<p>🇺🇸 Dollar collapses</p>
<p>💳 US renounces its debt </p>
<p>🌍 New global currency </p>
<p>🥫 Food shortages, gold outlawed </p>
<p>👨👩👧👦 A family forced to confront what <em>wealth actually is</em></p>
<p>As money dies, so do identities. </p>
<p>As comfort disappears, morality shifts. </p>
<p>Survival replaces ideology.</p>
<p>The real question isn’t <em>will this happen</em>— it’s <strong>who adapts when the system breaks</strong>.📉 </p>
<p>Empires don’t fall all at once. </p>
<p>They decay… then default.</p>
<p>Have you read it—or are we living it?</p>