It is considered praxis to take a fire axe to people's mining rigs.
Link: https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/11/financialization-everything-investment-system-token/620804/

  • newmou [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    You know they’re doing all this shit and accidentally grifting their way into a slipshod infrastructure for actual virtual oppression on a weird cybernetic scale that’s unthinkable right now, with all the backing of capitalists hungry for new markets and a state hungry to surveil on their behalf, and we’re just fucking sitting here and watching all this happen and we need to get more imaginative and hungry and inventive and idk how to do that

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      Part of it is that these grifts get built up and then everyone realizes they're utterly hollow. There's no real enforcement mechanism on "Give me 25% of your future salary for 30 years" other than just sending you to collections for some nebulously defined amount of cash.

      So the actual virtual oppression that comes out of this is going to be driven by People Bank owning $10T in speculative human assets and going tits up because they have no idea how to collect. And then the state coming in to "fix the problem" of banks not being able to efficiently garnish your wages.

      we need to get more imaginative and hungry and inventive and idk how to do that

      I'm seeing a lot more unionization and general collective action in the wake of COVID. There's a degree of "overthinking" that goes on in certain Leftist circles, wherein we think we need to come up with a new branding or a new strategy, when the old strategies are proven tools that mostly just need enough people to use them in order to be effective.

      Grifts, by contrast, are always doomed to fail. They bait collective action in order to betray it.

    • OutrageousHairdo [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      I feel the same. I was just floored. Like shit, we really don't have much time left. Whoever combines this with the fucking gofundme's for hospital bills is going to get both a fuckload of money and a reserved parking space in Hell.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      Yes, but what if you could pay Camgirls in crypto? Bet nobody's ever thought of that!

  • mr_world [they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Dude what if I worked and someone took 15% of my money to give to other people. Isn't that a radical system that's never been done before anywhere? Anyways, taxation is theft.

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      What if we took the system Sovereign Citizens think we live under and made it real?

  • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    The whole tokenizing himself thing is too much to process right now, so my brain has fixated on something else instead: across the Atlantic to San Francisco? Huh?

  • chiefecula [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    I mean I don't care about this particular case, because the person selling the shares doesn't really have to do anything except share 15% of their profits, but jesus fucking christ, how do you come up with something like this without immediately thinking "what's the worst that could happen", realizing how exploitable this can be, and going on a bender to erase that idea out of your head?

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      I mean I don’t care about this particular case

      It's a curious case, because this guy is claiming to have found a very arcane way of getting some dumbasses to pay him $20k to be his friend. But, like so much else in the Clout-Culture world, it's either predicated on being low-tier famous or some pure fabrication The Atlantic is pushing as part of some financier's personal "sell people shares of themselves back to them" grifting scheme.

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    3 years ago

    All I want to know is how I can over bid the amount of coins and pull a crypto version of The Producers scam.

    • KelquunDotre [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      www.crypto51.app With great power comes great reaponsibility.

      Dont get fragged!

    • OutrageousHairdo [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Mining cards are worthless for most other tasks anyways. No loss. Except for the people who just use retail cards like dipshits

    • AlexandairBabeuf [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      they invented the LLC specifically for ghouls like this, talk about owning yourself (by not owning yourself lol)

  • GreenTeaRedFlag [any]
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    3 years ago

    that post from the other day about real serfdom being everyone competing for the best lord, and crony feudalism is when the king protects you? We're about to hit real feudalism.