The most obvious stupid scam ever conceived and they actually managed to hook a bunch of actual corporations

Square Enix, Nickelodeon, Coke, KFC, and more fell for this shit while regular people were laughing about how obvious a con it was.

Really puts into question the capitalist myth of the genius entrepreneur and the idea that these corporate types are rich because they are smart or deserving in some way.

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      • Junomint [any, she/her]
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        “ You're claiming that the answer to capitalism is more capitalism” I read this in the Christopher walken more cow bell tone and I just thought I should share. I got a fever and the only prescription is more capitalism

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          • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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            also you can invest in companies and genuinly own a portion of them on the regular financial system that's what capitalism is

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              • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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                The problem being that the poor can't afford to lose that gamble and they lack the connections or insider information to make better informed bets

                well that makes no sense if it's the same amount of money being bet

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                  I'm confused. The rich and poor can bet 50k on a company? Surely you see the difference between losing 50k making 50k a year and losing 50k as a multimillionaire.

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                    yes but if you can't afford to loose 50K on the stock market you can't afford to loose 50K on crypto

                    crypto currency does nothing to deal with the issue of whether or not you can afford to gamble money on it

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          • UmbraVivi [he/him, she/her]
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            My favorite retort to that one is "They laughed at the Wright brothers, but they also laughed at Bozo the Clown".

            Or for this example, yeah, the internet was new at one point. The Juicero was also new at one point.

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