My body is ready.
realizing that creators intentionally insert typos to drive hollow engagement was a real :doomer: moment for me
I used an intentional backwards E when I saw lemonade stands in older kids media and tried one as a kid. I was a CYNICAL kid though, like blackpilled as fuck. I read a lot of Calvin and Hobbes.
Reminded of the coin collector fad my dad was into, and how an erroneously minted coin would be pitched as way more valuable than a regular coin simply because it was rare.
They will. I call it the "Chapo curse". Will spent an entire episode mocking the Bored Ape Yacht Club, so one of the members is going to be a sitting Congressman after the midterms.
NFTs are essentially just tradeable contracts, but the implications sort of freak me out. Imagine employers being able to buy and sell your employment contract on an open market like some sort of techno-chattel. I think they will take off, but in a much more dystopian form than the cartoon monkeys we see on Twitter.
Edit: I scrolled down and there was a thread expanding on a similar idea. Imagine this, but it's a necessary part of the job search.
I remember a loooong time ago (maybe 3 months) when someone bought an NFT house for $500k and it was a really big deal.
This was definitely rhetorical, but just in case... you borrow them, sell them, wait for the price to fall and then buy them back to return them to the original lender. Same as any short bet!
If there's not some mechanism for doing this already, via CoinBase or whatever, I'm sure you could make a mint creating it.
My aunt's recently retired and so I got to hear all about her newfound online gambling habit over Thanksgiving. She's a lovely woman, just awfully lonely. Anyway, the sports betting community - a weird mix of frat bros, STEM guys and old people like my aunt - have fully embraced digital trading card NFTs and they use them as gambling instruments. I'd be shocked if they didn't already have some sort of informal mechanism for shorting developed!
Frankly it could be a fun bit to turn abstract philosophical concepts into NFTs. Yes, I own Cartesian Dualism and a little something I call "A Priori", because I'm an intellectual
(doing this bit might contribute to climate change)
Not enough that you shouldn't do it if you think you can gain. But you're trying to grift the grift so be careful.
I don't really know how NFT's work, but I had an idea to make like NFT anime girls, and tell weebs "she isn't really your waifu until you buy her NFT"
I'd be a billionaire of the backs of weird nerds who'd eat that shit up
I get the frustration. It's the price of having principles. You can see the financial opportunities you're missing because you won't sellout. It's seeing the damage capitalism does prompts one of two reactions - greed or disgust.
I think about how easy it would be to know chud talking points enough to get popularity. It's easy, but scummy. We just have to rely on solidarity instead.
:Care-Comrade:
If they learned we could ditch it rn and trade material goods
Even the core concept of "trade" is something of a scam.
Establishing a community of shared resources for mutual survival is the only real Leftist path forward. Doing Market Socialism mitigates the worst aspects of American-style Settler-Colonialist Capitalism. But you're still trapped in this system of rents and titles.
I'm hardly an expert on this topic, but I would recommend David Graeber's "Debt: the First 5000 Years".
It provides a historical view of money's origination and original utility, while positing a alternative approaches to organizing an economy towards the end of the book.
I picture trade as a symbiotic relationship where two people bring what they have(skills, materials, etc) to the table, and learn how to help each other with them.
That's a very individualist perspective. Commodity trading at the scale of nations doesn't typically work this way. You're dealing with more regional monopoly producers and monopsony wholesalers. Trade isn't about what one person can give another person. It's about what one industry executive can extract from a municipal population.
Nationalisation of wholesale production is a prerequisite for any modern era socialist project more ambitious than a street level operation.
Is it wrong to want to scam some fake intellectuals with my own NFTs?
If you can't find the mark at the table, you're it.
NFTs are just modern MLM schemes. You need to spend non-Bitcoin money to access the system and begin mining the commodities. And then you need to find a new pool of marks - folks who haven't dumped all their money into Dorky Dolphins or Flatulent Falcons or whatever - to buy your new stock. Unless you have that lined up in advance, you're going to be a scammie rather than a scammer.
Meanwhile I have to go to work in the pouring rain just to pay rent. What the fuck?!
What you'll actually want to do (per the wash-sales above) is to create an NFT and list it for 5 eth. Wait a week and if nobody bites then buy it from yourself. Then list it for 50 eth. Wait a week and if nobody bites then buy it from yourself. Then list it for 100 eth. Wait a week and if nobody bites then buy it from yourself.
Your NFT will have a record of rising value and appear more attractive to
marksinvestors.
