After years of studying it, I believe that cryptocurrency is an inherently right-wing, hyper-capitalistic technology built primarily to amplify the wealth of its proponents through a combination of tax avoidance, diminished regulatory oversight and artificially enforced scarcity.— Jackson Palmer (@ummjackson) July 14, 2021
Decentralised cryptographic protocols are very cool, I don't think anyone here has a problem with them, the way a lot of them are being used as a way for scumfuck capitalists to take money people can't afford to give them by selling a dream of being rich enough not to work any more is decidedly not.
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Decentralised cryptographic protocols are very cool, I don't think anyone here has a problem with them, the way a lot of them are being used as a way for scumfuck capitalists to take money people can't afford to give them by selling a dream of being rich enough not to work any more is decidedly not.
Fair point.