exactly i cant even (and have never been able to) afford a car. so like really, buying crypto was one of the only things that gave me any amount of dopamine. (im mostly speaking from how i felt over 2 years ago when i didnt give a shit much about politics or anything like that, i dont really get that feeling now)
i really wish people would stop shitting on "crypto" as a concept/some vague thing to make fun of and stick to shitting on the assholes buying embarrassing nfts and the cryptobros who make it their whole personality and are like husks of a human being. and im aware this is anecdotal.but ive only known a few people who have purchased crypto at any point and for any reason. and not one of them were ever making more than like 25k a year (if anywhere close to that even). so in other words they were all poor.
It's valid to shit on crypto at large from a leftist perspective because profiting from speculation is some bullshit. Go ahead and make money of course, but crypto is not a good thing to promote
i agree in general with that sentiment, if the intention for "promoting" is just purely for personally beneficial (financial) reasons. thats big time scum shit. i want to be clear that im not trying to imply its immune from criticism (ive ended up having to sell well over a majority of it whenever i really was like 0 dollars in my chime account broke, over that stretch of those 2 years) just that i dont think its a very nice thing for anyone here or anywhere else online to be almost reveling in it since the big "players" involved are going to be the ones that are hit with the least amount of hurt by anything that may happen (as per usual)....
most hurt will be people like me or those people i mentioned that i knew, that maybe bought very modest amounts of bitcoin or whatever who work some shitty job at a fast food chain, and just wanted to feel like they owned something for once in their lives even if it wasnt for very long at all
exactly i cant even (and have never been able to) afford a car. so like really, buying crypto was one of the only things that gave me any amount of dopamine. (im mostly speaking from how i felt over 2 years ago when i didnt give a shit much about politics or anything like that, i dont really get that feeling now) i really wish people would stop shitting on "crypto" as a concept/some vague thing to make fun of and stick to shitting on the assholes buying embarrassing nfts and the cryptobros who make it their whole personality and are like husks of a human being. and im aware this is anecdotal.but ive only known a few people who have purchased crypto at any point and for any reason. and not one of them were ever making more than like 25k a year (if anywhere close to that even). so in other words they were all poor.
It's valid to shit on crypto at large from a leftist perspective because profiting from speculation is some bullshit. Go ahead and make money of course, but crypto is not a good thing to promote
i agree in general with that sentiment, if the intention for "promoting" is just purely for personally beneficial (financial) reasons. thats big time scum shit. i want to be clear that im not trying to imply its immune from criticism (ive ended up having to sell well over a majority of it whenever i really was like 0 dollars in my chime account broke, over that stretch of those 2 years) just that i dont think its a very nice thing for anyone here or anywhere else online to be almost reveling in it since the big "players" involved are going to be the ones that are hit with the least amount of hurt by anything that may happen (as per usual)....
most hurt will be people like me or those people i mentioned that i knew, that maybe bought very modest amounts of bitcoin or whatever who work some shitty job at a fast food chain, and just wanted to feel like they owned something for once in their lives even if it wasnt for very long at all
crypto is like a cartoon villain's big device: a machine that ruins the environment and prints money*
*speculative assets