# #181 - Tom Bilyeu - AI, Bitcoin & the Rigged Economy

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Podcast: [The Peter McCormack Show](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-peter-mccormack-show-525419)
Published: 2026-06-03T16:40:53+00:00
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Tom Bilyeu joins me to discuss debt, money printing, broken politics, AI, Bitcoin and why the economy feels rigged against ordinary people. Tom argues that every empire eventually faces the same test: whether it can hold the power of the money printer without printing itself into oblivion. We talk about inflation, the debt cycle, asset prices, populism, Britain’s decline, and why the working and middle class are being squeezed. We also get into AI and the future of work. I talk through my own recent experience building a system in seven days that would once have taken a full team and hundreds of thousands of pounds, and Tom explains how AI has already changed the structure of his business. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - The Economy Is Rigged 00:01:09 - Are We Driving Off a Fiscal Cliff? 00:03:04 - Debt, Money Printing and Inflation 00:04:36 - The Final Boss of Economics 00:07:02 - America’s Founding and Wealth Extraction 00:10:19 - Can America Be Saved? 00:11:46 - Economics Has Physics 00:16:06 - Debt, Cancellation and Freedom 00:19:03 - The Thucydides Trap 00:21:42 - Politics Has Not Been Disrupted 00:25:15 - Populism and the Shrinking Pie 00:29:07 - Asset Inflation Is Vile 00:35:59 - UK Politics Is Breaking Down 00:40:36 - Is Sweden Really Socialist? 00:42:40 - Where Is the Hope? 00:50:16 - Tom’s View on Bitcoin 00:53:17 - Peter’s AI Eureka Moment 00:57:56 - How AI Changed Tom’s Business 01:03:02 - The Four Futures of AI 01:12:56 - Is Reality a Simulation? 01:24:34 - Tom’s Final Warning - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTACT PETE › Website – http://petermccormack.com › Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.co…

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