Keep pretending your bullshit tech isn’t smoke and mirrors, dipshit
Ahh there's the ad hominem! Classic crypto-hater retort when you know that you're wrong and you're too stubborn to admit it. It's not smoke and mirrors, it's literally open source. You can check everything onchain. You can check the code.
Ethereum currently uses 0.0026 Annual Energy Consumption in TWh/yr. That's for everything that's on the network: all of defi (lending/borrowing, CDPs, insurance, mortgages, payday loans, exchanges, derivitives, etc), real world assets (RWAs, Blackrock's BUIDL fund alone is up+364.65% YTD), NFTs/collectables, social media, gaming, identities, etc. This energy consumption is less than orders of magnitude less than netflix, paypal, gaming, etc.
That said. MAN, you must hate the kind of company you end up stuck with. Crypto as far as I know is MOSTLY very weird AnCap types
Crypto indeed is a weird af place. I hate 99.99% of the projects and the people here. The culture is insufferable. But there is space to build projects that actually help working people.
imma h8r
Why though? It's just tech. It's neither good nor bad. It can be used for good (public goods funding, donations to causes that might otherwise be blocked, paying artists a la patreon, governance voting via DAOs, etc) or bad (speculative markets, BAYC, memecoins, rugpulls, etc).
Read Blockchain Radicals, there's more of us than you think. Dozens!
Make no mistake though, I view crypto as simply a technological tool to get us from A to B. From the cryptoleftist subreddit:
Bitcoin or any other specific crypto / blockchain project will not get us to socialism. This is first and foremost an ANTI-capitalist community (this should be the bare minimum to calling oneself a leftist), so please, we don't want to encourage some of the worst aspects of both capitalism and crypto currency like speculation and trading. We don't care if you do it, but there are other communities out there for that.
That said, there's some cool work being done on Breadchain for coops and workers: laborDAO, the ReFi (regenerative finance) movement, etc.
Crypto can be an important tool to:
protect the unbanked,underbanked, and even banked from the exploitative financial system: we’re making progress
remove US hegemonic power by undermining the dominance of the US dollar: we’re making progress, but some like USDC are actually reinforcing American dominance
move away from capitalism and asset speculation to collective ownership (governance tokens), trade of useful goods (digital or physical), and savings protocols: we’re not making very much progress and are actively moving against this
Usually, my attempts to use it are either thwarted by issues installing, issues booting, or general problems while using it… leading to “catastrophic failure” that I can’t fix without digging into hours of research and terminal commands.
This was my experience as well ... 20 years ago. I've not had many of these issues over the past few years using any distro. I used Debian for a couple years and now I'm on Arch. Really, it just works for me...
TBH now that I think about it, I ran in to more issues with Ubuntu than just simply using Debian.
I believe Norway still has a lot of good systems to take care of its citizens.
Sure, I'm not saying welfare programs are bad, but the system is still Capitalist. We're already seeing policies being rolled back as the pendulum swings. Norway is able to afford its citizens these luxuries because of its historical exploitation and wealth. That, and because of the proximity to the Soviet Union; they feared uprising similar to what was going on there, so concessions were made. It's always concessions.
Anybody who uses the term "tankie" can safely be ignored and blocked.
but social democracy has been a good way of keeping capitalism in-check in Norway
Even though some of these concessions have been rolled back? Also, Norway, etc were able to offer these concessions by exploiting other countries.
What I am interested in learning is how society would operate and function under socialism / communism. More about the differences. Preferably from less dry sources than The Capital from Marx. Where can I learn more? Preferably a bit entertaining.
A podcast called Actually Existing Socialism is really good!
I've had accounts shadow banned due to VPN. I've had more accounts banned from subs due to annoying mods. I'm still on reddit, but I really do prefer the non-corporate/non-VC-backed social media
Liberals will claim that they are furious at what's going on and then proceed to vote for another capitalist who perpetuates what's going on, all while refusing to listen to Socialists. 🤷♀️
/50501 here and on reddit.
Why would the news, controlled and operated by oligarchs, give people protesting oligarchs any coverage?