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      First it was Amway, then Tupperware, sheets, candles, and spices. My sister has gone through quite a few of these MLM schemes.

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        Such a mess. My uncle got suckerd into the Amway stuff. A best friend into cutco. A classmate into Primerica. A coworker into Mary Kay.

        All under the guise of running “their own business”. Yeah nah. Any job that makes you buy the product before you can sell it, and makes you sell to friends and family first, is not a real job.

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          Same. Cutco targeted college students specifically, got two of my roommates.

          I got the same mail recruitment thing they did, so I know exactly how gullible they are now.

          They’re “EARN THIRTY DOLLARS AN HOUR AS YOUR OWN BOSS???” gullible.

          I try not to bring it up too much.

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      I came here to say this. Hello fellow old person. Old school friend used to call me whenever he had recently gone to an amway pep meeting.

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    I am surprised at the many nice, fair, liberal people from my past that, 5-10 years later, have transformed into turbo-racists and Christo-fascists.

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      I know a bunch of trekkies, a fandom around a post scarcity, pseudo communist utopia, embrace crypto despite it being an artificial scarcity concept that doesn’t really fix any of the issues of the preceding system. I make fun of them whenever nfts come up, including posting any negative nft news into the humor channel of their discord.

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        The right wing trekkies is the weirdest one for me.

        Like, let me introduce you to the original SJW, a little know fella named idk, Gene Roddenberry.

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          They’re not really right wing. Very suburban, sheltered and privileged, but I’ve never heard them talk politics. I can say extra privileged because one of them wanted to put an Battlefield sound board in their car. Sure, that’s what you want. Making it easy to accidentally make the sounds of gunfire if you ever get pulled over by a cop because your taillight is out.

          As far as star trek goes, they’re rather talk about the power output of the phasers then character arcs. They’re very basic.

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            As far as star trek goes, they’re rather talk about the power output of the phasers then character arcs. They’re very basic.

            They admire the technical details of the blue curtains, in other words, ignoring that it’s a story typically being told with an intended point to it besides “fictional energy beam go psheeeeew.”

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      I’ve known a number of self labeled “liberals” that basically think being progressive means simply not being openly racist and restraining from yelling slurs on a street corner.

      Surprise surprise it turns out they were just closet bigots who were aware what crowds they could get away with expressing their horrid views with and in the recent years figured street corners are now perfectly up for grabs.

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        Ruin millions of lives, then misdirect the resulting outrage by telling everyone it’s the fault of immigrants/gays/trans/etc.

        Never ceases to disappoint me how many people are fooled by that trick.

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      Just to cover all bases. Maybe you’re just too late due to your brainwashing making you not realize how delusional you are? But of course that’s not the case, because you’re the Super Smartest Guy™, and everyone else is so stupid to not understand your true genius.

      Congrats… I guess?

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    You know how to tell if somebody’s really into crypto?

    They keep their mouth fucking shut but if you ask questions they know the answers.

    People who talk about crypto are gamblers and con men.

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          One of my favorite things said about crypto by famous german hacker Linus Neumann about crypto was something like: They where so obsessed with whether they could make digital money work, and the technical is super smart. But they forgot to think about if they should.

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            I think the concept is solid, personally. I’ve had a lot of issues with international payments and just not having that is already appealing. Not to mention some countries still somehow deal in cash?

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              In theory. But then real life happens:

              • You may not always have interner and power but need goods
              • You may send money to the wrong wallet -> gone forever (doesn’t even have to be yout fault, great target for man in the middle attacks)
              • You may forget your passphrase or your grandpa dies and you inherit nothing as nobody can access the money
              • You want to pay in you supermarket. Great you have to wait till you transaction gets processed as this is super slow. And wait until many more people use this currency.
              • It’s pseudonymous not anonymous. Everyone you send money and know in real life knows about your financials in detail 👌🏻

              Macro things:

              • It’s great to freeze assets of people who are shit
              • It’s great to be able to control the amount of money in the system to counter crisis or just keep the economy healthy
              • It’s great when people pay taxes
              • Fixed amount of coins means deflation in the long run and deflating economies die faster than you can blink
              • Proof of Work burns our world and Proof of Stake is oligarchy. Today the distribution of most coins is worse then normal currencies. (Richest have almost everything)
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                FUD. FUD. FUD.

                “You may not always have interner and power but need goods”

                ^^ Credit/debit cards have this same problem. Besides, when was the last time you didn’t have your cell phone with you and had to pay in actual cash?

                “You may send money to the wrong wallet -> gone forever (doesn’t even have to be yout fault, great target for man in the middle attacks)”

                ^^ Ok fair. But most exchanges in the future will probably support some degree of transaction reversibility. Most people will not self-custody but will instead use a bank, exchange, etc to help “soften” the experience of using crypto.

                “You may forget your passphrase or your grandpa dies and you inherit nothing as nobody can access the money”

                ^^ There are many solutions to this problem including social recovery, keeping backups, or trusting a third-party custodian like an exchange or in the future banks will probably help manage your crypto assets.

                “You want to pay in you supermarket. Great you have to wait till you transaction gets processed as this is super slow. And wait until many more people use this currency.”

                ^^ You know how long a credit card transaction takes to fully settle? 30 days. Any vendor is just going to accept a one-confirmation transaction which occurs in seconds if not picoseconds. This is really not an issue unless you are buying a house. If you are buying a house, you can wait 30 minutes for a full multi-block confirmation.

                “It’s pseudonymous not anonymous. Everyone you send money and know in real life knows about your financials in detail 👌🏻”

                ^^ Monero and other privacy-respecting cryptos solved this, and there is talk of adding more privacy to Bitcoin.

                “It’s great to freeze assets of people who are shit”

                ^^ You can still have court orders to seize all their money and assets, their house, their car, etc the only thing you arguably lose access to is their bank account. People with enough assets to justify seizing their bank account usually have somebody else manage their assets, that somebody else can be compelled with a court order.

                “It’s great to be able to control the amount of money in the system to counter crisis or just keep the economy healthy”

                ^^ If you believe this is true you should know that blockchains can make their own economic policy. They can set the inflation rate and redistribute wealth however they like, some of them even have their own on-chain voting mechanisms to automate this. The difference is who gets to make those decisions: the participants of the network or some oligarch hack who finds it politically expedient?

                “It’s great when people pay taxes”

                ^^ Crypto is not immune to taxes, you have to pay taxes on it like all other assets and foreign currency. Taxation works exactly the same.

                “Fixed amount of coins means deflation in the long run and deflating economies die faster than you can blink”

                ^^ Only a few coins have a fixed amount, many have a built-in inflation rate. Land is a fixed asset. Diamonds are a fixed supply asset. Are they destroying the economy?

                ^^ Proof of Work burns our world and Proof of Stake is oligarchy. Today the distribution of most coins is worse then normal currencies.

                Proof-of-stake has many varieties, not all of which inherently end in oligarchy. Even those are infinitely more democratic than our current financial system. PoW typically uses green energy sources as they are the cheapest and can be used to balance energy demand curves. The root problem is not that PoW uses energy, but where that energy comes from. Some PoW coins require “proof of useful work”.

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                  Sorry disagree with most stuff and I also don’t see what such a system would improve for the majority of people.

                  But let’s not argue anymore let’s just agree to disagree.

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                  Give it up dude, crypto is a niche interest, you foaming about it online isn’t going to cause a widespread adoption.

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      What do you mean you don’t aspire to get into debt for working 24/7 and alienating yourself from family and friends?

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    Went to school for graphic design and I’m now a hobbyist illustrator (though currently very out of practice). Had an old co-worker reach out to check in on me given the pandemic, felt nice until he asked if I would help him design NFT artwork.

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      “NFTs will protect artists!”

      You can’t name a single court case where nft receipts won the case, but it’s very easy to find nft bros minting other people’s work.

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    Maybe his account was hacked? One of my friend’s Instagram account was hacked and was sending messages to invest money. Another friend really thought it was him and sent some money. If he contacted you directly then it’s another case

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    I had this happen but instead on our second hang out he started spouting enlightened centrist talking points and quoting Rogan. I remember him wondering why no one showed up to his birthday.