The entire principle that someone doesn’t need to even attempt to care to understand a technology they’re using - yes, cars and computers included - is what got us where we are.
No, you don’t need to design the technology, but if you don’t have a basic grasp of … a microwave oven, a car’s starter, engine, and steering column… or public key crypto and blockchain addresses, this is what happens. No, it’s not desirable, and I hope OP didn’t lose a half mil.
This can really be as simple as “EM waves add energy to things but you can’t put things metal that reflect/otherwise distort EM waves in it” (even being nice here and not caring that some absorb better), or “fuel explodes and in the engine repeatedly which is connected to a series of gears and a drive shaft”, or “math makes guessing this part hard, so part is my secret and part can go to everyone”, but people want to be BOTH ignorant totally AND have “complete freedom from any consequences”… which just isn’t how the world works.
What a bunch of bazinga brain nonsense. Some I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE, gee whiz explanation for how your microwave works is not the same thing as understanding how it works. Just going "cell phones are just communicating with towers through radio" is not understanding cell phones. What this really boils down to is that if you're not a pop-sci redditor who thinks science is just neat facts then you don't deserve to use crypto. That goes against this decentralized, democratic idea of money they want to push. Just letting your grandma starve because she doesn't read Neil DeGrasse Tyson tweets isn't a solution.
These people are so fucking fake. Using crypto makes them feel like special little smart people and that's pretty much it. You can't let the "uneducated" plebs taint their special smart boy tokens.
I know how my microwave works. Cold food goes in, I hit the button 5 times, hot food comes out
Imagine if you had to have an elementary understanding of electromagnetism to use a microwave. What would be the outcome? Very very few people would use microwaves 🤔
Crypto was never about putting money back in the hands of the working class, it was just another avenue for wallstreet to speculate and bet on, hence why the big holders of it are hedge funds and wealthy investors and not average working people.
My turn on the lathe: we will see, within the next five years, a bitcoin bailout. Because of the concentration in hedge funds, if bitcoin collapses to its real value (zero) and leverage in the system, line will go down. One or two hedge funds will go bankrupt and congress will act to address systemic risk
it’s just an avenue that the wealthy see as an opportunity to become the ultrawealthy if they can get in. Every few years there’s something like this that gives them an opportunity to cash in. It was apps and smart phones in the 2010s, it was .com shit in the 90s/early 00s.
What a bunch of bazinga brain nonsense. Some I FUCKING LOVE SCIENCE, gee whiz explanation for how your microwave works is not the same thing as understanding how it works. Just going "cell phones are just communicating with towers through radio" is not understanding cell phones. What this really boils down to is that if you're not a pop-sci redditor who thinks science is just neat facts then you don't deserve to use crypto. That goes against this decentralized, democratic idea of money they want to push. Just letting your grandma starve because she doesn't read Neil DeGrasse Tyson tweets isn't a solution.
These people are so fucking fake. Using crypto makes them feel like special little smart people and that's pretty much it. You can't let the "uneducated" plebs taint their special smart boy tokens.
Lol what a dumb post by that person
I know how my microwave works. Cold food goes in, I hit the button 5 times, hot food comes out
Imagine if you had to have an elementary understanding of electromagnetism to use a microwave. What would be the outcome? Very very few people would use microwaves 🤔
Crypto was never about putting money back in the hands of the working class, it was just another avenue for wallstreet to speculate and bet on, hence why the big holders of it are hedge funds and wealthy investors and not average working people.
My turn on the lathe: we will see, within the next five years, a bitcoin bailout. Because of the concentration in hedge funds, if bitcoin collapses to its real value (zero) and leverage in the system, line will go down. One or two hedge funds will go bankrupt and congress will act to address systemic risk
The Defense of Crypto Economic Oppourtunities Act. :biden-troll:
Or, if :trump-anguish: gets back in, it will be something like The Golden Freedom Eagle Tech Jobs And Freedom Act.
:hst-gun: step away from the lathe!
it’s just an avenue that the wealthy see as an opportunity to become the ultrawealthy if they can get in. Every few years there’s something like this that gives them an opportunity to cash in. It was apps and smart phones in the 2010s, it was .com shit in the 90s/early 00s.